BDGS Associés

Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Law

Partner specialising in French and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations and joint ventures, involving both listed and unlisted companies.

Recent work includes advising: Crédit Agricole Assurances (Predica) on two real estate partnerships with Clariane; TotalEnergies on the acquisition of Total Eren; CMA CGM on the acquisition of La Tribune; Peugeot Invest on its participation in the simplified tender offer on Rothschild & Co; Engie on the sale of the Equans group to Groupe Bouygues following a highly competitive bid process, on the sale of its stake in Suez to Veolia, and on the sale of its 60% stake in Engie EPS to Taiwan Cement Corporation; Groupe La Poste and La Banque Postale (LBP) on the creation of a major public financial pole via the acquisition by LBP of a 42% stake in CNP Assurances; La Banque Postale on the creation of a joint venture with Natixis IM in the asset management industry; Media-Participations on the creation of a joint venture with Group Michelin, and its acquisition of La Martinière Groupe; Bpifrance on its sale of a 10% stake in Insignis and its reinvestment alongside Cinven; Safran on its tender offer on Zodiac Aerospace and their subsequent merger; and EDF on the sale of 49.9% of the share capital of RTE to CDC and CNP Assurances.

Before joining BDGS Associés in 2016, David Andreani worked for four years at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Paris. He became a partner in 2022.

French and English

Paris Bar (2012) and  New York Bar (2013). LL.M., Harvard Law School (2012) HEC Paris (2009) Master’s Degree in International Tax Law, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas (2009)