Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

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.

Rodolphe joined the firm in 2011 and became a partner in 2020.

French (native) English (fluent) Spanish (rudimentary)

Member of the Bars of Paris and New York.

Harvard Law School LL.M. 2011

Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC) ESSEC 2010

Université de Paris II - Panthéon-Assas Magistere/D.J.C.E./D.E.S.S. 2007

Université de Paris II - Panthéon-Assas Master I 2006