BDGS Associés

Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Law

Partner focusing on matters concerning listed companies, including listed companies, including takeovers, capital restructurings, equity capital markets transactions, corporate governance matters and shareholder disputes.

He has recently represented Société M.B.D., the family controlling shareholder of BIC, on the reorganisation of the family governance and the control structure with respect to BIC; the supervisory board of Europcar Mobility Group on governance issues; Crédit Agricole Assurances (Predica) as reference shareholder on the €1.5 billion refinancing plan adopted by Clariane and the financial restructuring of the Comexposium Group; Diageo on its joint venture with LVMH in Moët Hennessy, its distribution arrangements with Moët Hennessy and its delisting from Euronext Paris; and Qatar Investment Authority as reference shareholder of Lagardère.

Before founding BDGS Associés in 2013, Youssef Djehane was a partner since 1994 at Gide Loyrette Nouel where he started his career in 1986. He was seconded to Allen & Overy, London, in 1990 and then to the World Bank in Washington in 1992.

French and English

Regular speaker at IBA M&A conferences. Author of the IBA Takeover Guide France and of "Corporate Governance and Directors' Duties in France" for Practical Law (Thomson Reuters).

Paris Bar (1987) Postgraduate diploma in Private Law from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (1985)