Vivien & Associés

Alexandra Arnould

Partner - Her practice focuses on corporate law, with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and capital investment. She advises both domestic and foreign companies and private equity funds on a broad range of corporate (acquisitions -including LBOs-, sales, capital investments, joint ventures) and restructuring transactions (including mergers, spin-off or partial asset contributions). She also provides general corporate and commercial assistance to a various panel of clients active in a wide variety of industries.

Emmanuel Chauvet

Partner - Since 2008, Emmanuel Chauvet has focused on mergers and acquisitions and restructuring for French as well as foreign industrial clients. He also has developed specific expertise in the field of mining regulation and not-for-profit organizations.

Emmanuelle Bouretz

Partner - Emmanuelle Bouretz’s practice focuses on commercial litigation for both French & foreign clients, notably relating corporate matters (minority/majority, shareholder litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions, disputes relating to warranty agreements, etc.) She is also a recognized expert in financial services and banking litigation (particularly in the area of derivative products) and represents major groups before arbitration tribunals. In addition, she assists companies in banking and financial regulations and in their relations with regulatory authorities.

Jacques Epstein

Partner - Specialized in mergers and acquisitions and industrial joint-ventures, often in an international context, Jacques Epstein also has extensive experience in competition law. He advises foreign companies in acquisitions and disposals in France, and French companies in their international development and their acquisitions abroad. In addition, he frequently intervenes in the settlement of disputes as a mediator or conciliator.

Jean-Luc Bédos

Avocat honoraire - He is a lawyer at the Paris Bar since 1984 and he is now avocat honoraire, graduated from Harvard Law School and holds a doctorate in law (Paris-Assas). He represents French and international companies and investment funds on mergers & acquisitions, restructuring and equity transactions. Jean-Luc has an established reputation in private equity both in France and in Africa. He is the author of the “Guide du Private Equity” published by Option Finance in 2016, and co-editor of the “Livre Blanc du Capital-investissement en Afrique” published by France Invest in 2017. Jean-Luc has been actively involved in humanitarian programs in France, and in 1995 founded the NGO Droits d’Urgence, the largest French NGO (50 employees, 400 volunteers) to provide access to justice for the disadvantaged. Jean-Luc chaired Droits d’Urgence for about ten years. He is a member of the Boards of the American NGO PILnet and the Break Poverty Foundation. He is a regular speaker at international conferences, and since 2016 has been instrumental in the establishment of the Paris Conference of the International Economic Forum of the Americas.

Jérôme Chapus

Partner - Jérôme Chapus assists and represents corporate entities as well as individuals in domestic or cross-border situations. He has experience in corporate acquisitions and reorganizations, including conducting due diligence, tax consolidation regime, management packages, mergers and similar transactions (including management of tax losses or advance tax rulings); his experience of intra-group transactions extends to transfer pricing, thin capitalization rules and permanent establishment issues. He also addresses VAT issues. Jérôme’s area of expertise also includes assistance to individuals for the organization of their professional or personal assets (tax residence, inheritance/gift tax planning, wealth tax, structuring the purchase of French-located real property, regularization in France of foreign assets...). He also addresses the tax treatment of transactions involving not-for-profit entities.

Joëlle Hannelais

Partner - Joëlle Hannelais has a renowned experience in employment law. Her practice involves assistance and ad-vice regarding employment related consequences following restructuring and transfer transac-tions, and matters relating to employee and union representation. She also acquired a wide experience in litigation, and in particular before employment law tribu-nals. Her assistance, given her strong experience, allows the anticipation of possible disputes arising from a transaction and to limit any potential consequences resulting therefrom.

Partner - Judith Fargeot has a broad experience in mergers and acquisitions, joint-ventures and corporate transactions, and in particular in complex industrial carve-outs, sophisticated price adjustment mechanisms and transactions involving complicated minority shareholders issues. She works with clients in a variety of sectors, including entertainment, cinema & television, energy, agro-business for both French & international clients.

Julie Tchaglass

Partner - Her practice focuses on international mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions including leveraged acquisitions (LBOs), capital investment, joint-ventures, and general corporate and commercial assistance, representing French and foreign buyers and sellers (whether listed or unlisted) and private equity institutions.

Partner – He focuses his practice on various areas of corporate law, including M&A transactions, intra-group restructurings, joint ventures and industrial partnerships, often in an international context. He has an expertise in commercial contracts.

Laetitia Amzallag

Partner - Laetitia focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate law and commercial contracts, both nationally and internationally, particularly in the renewable energy sector (acquisitions for operators of wind, solar and biomass plants and equity investments of financial investors in SPVs) and sporting activities (golf, fitness, etc.). She also advises French and international corporations, essentially in industrial and service sectors, on matters relating to external growth via acquisitions and corporate transactions as well as minority or majority equity investments.

Partner - Her practice focuses on corporate law and mergers and acquisitions, Lisa advises French and international groups in the context of domestic and cross-border acquisition (both buy-side and sell-side), restructuring (including merger, spin-off or partial asset contribution) and joint-venture transactions. She also regularly focuses on capital-investment transactions either alongside companies working on their development and growth, or investors.

Marie-Emilie Rousseau-Brunel

Partner - Marie-Emilie Rousseau-Brunel practices labour and social security law, both on contentious and non-contentious matters. She advises clients with their day-to-day labour relations and employment issues, including individual and collective relationships, restructuring and mass redundancy schemes, as well as employment issues arising out of mergers and acquisitions, business disposals and due diligence.

Marine Pelletier-Capes

Partner - Marine Pelletier-Capes has developed notable expertise in corporate taxation, including all tax aspects of merger & acquisitions (transaction structuring, tax consolidation, thin capitalization, holding companies, etc.). Marine frequently assists the firm’s corporate teams on complex domestic or cross-border acquisitions or reorganizations, including when advance tax rulings or informal contacts with the French tax authorities are required. She assists her clients in tax audits and litigation as well. Marine is also a recognized practitioner of individual taxation (family office, Pactes Dutreil, trusts, etc.) and top management and employee incentive; her area of expertise also covers the taxation of not-for-profit organizations.

Partner - Nicolas Vivien has developed a broad transactional practice for international and domestic clients. Nicolas helps structure, negotiate and close cross border and domestic acquisitions, joint ventures and a variety of other transactions or agreements for clients active in sectors such as energy, mining and natural resources, food and agro-business, television and cinema, luxury goods and fashion, specialized retail, transportation or B-to-B services.