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Amélie Champsaur

Amélie Champsaur’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and investigations, particularly in the financial sector. Amélie leads the firm’s EU financial regulatory practice and is active in the fast developing area of EU-level financial regulation, advising EU and non-EU banks, infrastructures, sovereigns, investment funds, and other market participants on a broad range of matters, including prudential regulation, governance and compliance (including cyber-security), bank resolution, state aid in the financial sector, and derivatives regulation, in the context of M&A, capital markets transactions, emerging risks, ESG, as well as enforcement and litigation. She has also advised clients on the cross-border aspects of U.S. regulatory reforms, enforcement, and litigation matters, including on privacy matters.

Andrew Bernstein

Andrew A. Bernstein’s practice focuses on capital markets and transactions for sovereigns. Andrew’s practice has a dual focus. A significant part of his practice involves international securities offerings by French companies, including initial public offerings, other equity offerings, bank regulatory capital securities, high-yield bonds and investment-grade debt sold in the U.S. market. He also regularly represents sovereigns and state-owned companies in international transactions, particularly oil and gas projects and financings, as well as disputes.

Anne-Sophie Coustel

Anne-Sophie Coustel’s practice focuses on French and international tax law as well as complex reorganizations and M&A transactions. She also has extensive experience with employee stock offerings, employee benefit plans and management incentive packages.

Antoine Winckler

Antoine Winckler’s practice focuses on European and French competition law, including cartel investigations, merger control, and market dominance. He has advised clients in numerous cartel cases, including those relating to cement, copper tubes, seamless steel tubes, paper, elevators, cables and freight forwarding. Antoine has extensive experience representing corporate clients and financial institutions, as well as governments and public entities, regarding EU state aid rules; and he has represented clients in disputes before the European Commission, the European Courts in Luxembourg, the French Competition Authority and the Court of Appeals in Paris.

Anton Nothias’ practice focuses on corporate and financial matters, including financing, capital markets, and mergers and acquisitions.

Aude Dupuis’ practice focuses on domestic and cross-border litigation and dispute resolution, including general commercial matters, bankruptcy law, cartel follow-on damages actions, and M&A transactions.

Aude Dupuis’ practice focuses on domestic and cross-border litigation and dispute resolution, including general commercial matters, bankruptcy law, cartel follow-on damages actions, and M&A transactions.

Barthélemy Faye

Barthélemy Faye’s practice focuses on corporate and financial matters and Africa-related transactions, including energy and natural resources projects, financings, acquisitions and JVs, private equity, and sovereign debt.

Delphine Michot

Delphine Michot’s practice focuses on domestic and cross-border litigation and dispute resolution as well as white-collar criminal matters.

Frédéric de Bure

Frédéric de Bure’s practice focuses on EU and French competition law, including merger control, cartel investigations, market dominance cases and related litigation matters.

Frédéric G. Martin

Frederic G. Martin’s practice focuses on international capital markets and cross-border merger and acquisition transactions. Frederic’s practice involves initial public offerings and other equity offerings, de-SPAC transactions, investment-grade and high-yield debt offerings, bank regulatory capital securities offerings, and liability management transactions. He also regularly advises on disclosure and corporate governance matters.

Guillaume de Rancourt

Guillaume de Rancourt’s practice focuses on domestic and international litigation and arbitration. He also has extensive experience in global investigations and compliance issues, with a particular emphasis on anti-money laundering, anti-terror financing, and anti-corruption matters. Guillaume’s enforcement work focuses on white-collar defense, including allegations of corporate bribery, criminal and civil fraud, money laundering, and violations of economic sanctions. His practice also includes assisting clients in developing compliance and governance frameworks that respond to the requirements of multiple jurisdictions, including advice on preventative measures, crisis management, and wider strategic issues, focusing in particular on multinational corporations.

Jean-Yves Garaud

Jean-Yves Garaud’s practice focuses on international arbitration and white-collar criminal matters.

John Brinitzer’s practice focuses on international capital markets transactions, as well as mergers and acquisitions.

Laura Birene’s practice focuses on corporate and financial matters, including financing and capital market transactions.

Laurie Achtouk-Spivak

Laurie Achtouk-Spivak’s practice focuses on international arbitration and litigation, as well as public international law. Laurie represents clients in commercial arbitrations as well as investors and sovereigns in investment treaty arbitrations under various arbitral rules. Throughout her career, Laurie has been involved in over 50 arbitrations and has managed high-stake disputes in various sectors including energy and natural resources, infrastructure projects, defence, financial services, and life sciences. She often provides companies with investment structuring advice, and she advises and lectures on international dispute settlement, including in relation to sustainability matters. Laurie acts as an arbitrator and is a CEDR-accredited mediator.

Marie-Laurence Tibi

Marie-Laurence Tibi’s practice focuses on equity capital markets and public M&A transactions, as well as corporate governance for listed companies. She also advises clients on securities laws, corporate matters, and mergers and acquisitions.

Pierre-Yves Chabert

Pierre-Yves Chabert’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and securities regulation.

Rodolphe Elineau

Rodolphe Elineau’s practice focuses on corporate and financial matters, including M&A and corporate governance. He advises both French and foreign companies on strategic and complex transactions. Rodolphe played a key role in the most significant M&A transactions on the French market in the past few years, including advising Pernod Ricard in its sale of its portfolio of strategic international wines to Australian Wine Holdco Limited, Roquette Frères in its pending $2.85 billion acquisition of the Pharma Solutions segment of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF), Alimentation Couche Tard in its €3.1 billion acquisition of TotalEnergies retail assets in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, Giammaria Giuliani in the 3.7bn takeover of Rothschild & Co, Veolia Environnement in its €12.9bn acquisition of Suez (and related c. €900 million divestments) to create the French world champion of ecological transformation, Attestor in the €2.9bn acquisition of Europcar, Thales in the combination of its cellular IoT products business with Telit and its €5.4bn acquisition of Gemalto, General Mills in the sale of its European operations to Sodiaal, Worldline it its €7.8bn acquisition of Ingenico, Capgemini in its €5bn acquisition of Altran and General Motors in its divestment of Opel/Vauxhall to PSA Group.

Séverine Schrameck

Séverine Schrameck’s practice focuses on EU and French competition law, including merger control, cartel investigations, market dominance cases, and State aid. Séverine has extensive experience in all fields of competition law, including merger control, antitrust, and cartel cases before both the European Commission and the French Competition Authority (“FCA”). She recently advised Vivendi on its acquisition of Lagardère and the related EC gun jumping investigation and Veolia in a number of complex transactions, including the acquisition of Uniper Hungary. She has advised on the competition aspects of numerous cross-border transactions, such as the Veolia/Suez, Essilor/Luxottica mergers and the above-mentioned Vivendi Lagardère, as well as the FCA Elsan/HSM phase 2 merger. On the cartel front, she advised on the global cartel investigations by the European Commission into possible price-fixing in the automotive parts industry, as well as a number of cases before the FCA, including the investigation in respect of certain conduct relating to the manufacture and sale of food products in food containers that may contain or may have contained bisphenol A (“BPA”) or BPA-substitutes. Séverine has also worked on foreign investment control, foreign subsidies regulation issues and has experience in French public law.

Sophie de Beer’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions as well as on general corporate, financial, and banking regulatory matters. Her experience includes private and public cross-border merger and acquisitions, partnerships, and transactions involving financial institutions such as banks, asset managers, and insurance companies. She is advising clients on corporate and regulatory aspects of their transactions.

Stéphanie Patureau

Stéphanie Patureau’s practice focuses on EU and French competition law. Stéphanie has extensive experience advising clients on merger control regulations including complex, multijurisdictional transactions, as well as in international cartels and anticompetitive agreements, abuse of dominance, and regulated sectors. Her wide-ranging practice also includes work on foreign investment control issues.

Valérie Lemaitre

Valérie Lemaitre’s practice focuses on corporate and financial matters, including acquisition transactions involving public companies, structured financings, leveraged transactions and securities offerings.