Corporate/M&A

John Flanigan is a partner in Dentons’ Paris office. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance, including leveraged acquisitions, securities offerings and joint venture transactions. He acts for clients in the private equity and financial sector and in a wide range of other business sectors and industries (including energy and technology companies, aerospace and defense, wines and spirits, consumer goods, life sciences, emerging markets, etc.).

John has published numerous articles on corporate and securities law issues, in particular regarding mergers and acquisitions, public offerings of securities and corporate governance. He has also been cited in numerous publications as a recognized corporate and private equity practitioner.

John previously spent two and a half years as Managing Partner of the Shanghai office.

Joined Dentons (previously Salans) in 1998 Managing Partner of Shanghai office, Dentons (previously Salans), 2006 - 2008 Willkie Farr & Gallagher, Paris and New-York, 1987 - 1998

English, German, French

Admitted to the Bar, New York, 1986 Admitted to the Bar, Paris, 1992

New York University, and University of North Carolina, 1985, JD, Staff Member on the North Carolina Law Review (1983 – 1984) University of Cincinnati, 1981, BA, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa