Key clients

  • Agence des Participations de l’Etat
  • Bouygues Telecom
  • Bpifrance
  • Butler Industries
  • Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations
  • Crédit Agricole Assurances (Predica)
  • Icade SA
  • Sagard
  • Eiffel Investment Group CONFIDENTIAL
  • Enedis CONFIDENTIAL
  • Raise Impact CONFIDENTIAL
  • Sopra Steria

Work highlights

  • Advised Bouygues Telecom on the financing of the acquisition, via a joint venture with Phoenix Tower International (PTI), of circa 2,000 telecoms sites.
  • Advised Icade SA on the debt portability of circa €1,5 billion financial indebtedness and the implementation of a €550 million bridge term loans facility.
  • Advising Epic Bpifrance, Bpifrance Investissement and L-GAM on the financing of their direct and indirect acquisition of a stake in Biose Industrie.

Lawyers

Next Generation Partners

Yaëlle Cohen

Yaëlle Cohen

BDGS Associés

Partner advising investment funds, companies, private debt funds and financial institutions on complex bank or bond financing in the context of domestic and cross-border corporate transactions, LBOs and project financing. She also supports companies in difficulty and their shareholders with financial restructuring operations. She has led a number of high-profile financing transactions, including recently the sale of Icade's majority stake in Icade Santé and the asset portfolio held by Icade Healthcare Europe; the acquisition of New Suez, an asset acquired from Veolia and Suez by Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations in consortium with Meridiam, Global Infrastructure Partners and CNP Assurances; the deployment of the national fiber optic network in France by Bouygues Telecom through joint ventures with Phoenix Tower International, Cellnex and Vauban Infrastructure Partners; and a majority stake taken by Sagard in Adit (Agency for the dissemination of technological information) followed by the acquisition by the Adit group of DCI (Defense Conseil International).

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Yaëlle Cohen