Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I.
Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I. runs a comprehensive practice, capable of handling a range of work including block trades and private placements, as well as IPOs and complex financings. The team also regularly works on convertible transactions and has in-house US expertise. It assists financial advisers and banks as well as issuers, and has a strong presence in the biotech sector. Arnaud Duhamel, US expert Melinda Stege-Arsouze and Guilhem Richard are the key partners, with of counsel Scott Logan also providing US legal support. In addition, the firm also has complementary expertise advising leading French companies on share capital increase reserved for employees through expert Sami Toutounji.
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Key clients
- Antin Infrastructure Partners
- Spartoo
- Veolia Environnement
- Renault
- Deutsche Bank
- BNP Paribas Group
- Société Générale
- HSBC
- BofA
- Morgan Stanley
- Credit Suisse
- Crédit Agricole CIB
- EFG Hermes (Egypt)
- Citigroup Global Markest
- Mizuho
- Namsen Capital
- JPM Securities
- American Industrial Partners
- Kempen
- Tikehau
- Soitec
Work highlights
- Assisted Air France-KLM in connection with an offering of deeply subordinated undated bonds (TSSDI) convertible into new shares and/or exchangeable for existing shares for a multimillion-euro nominal amount.
- Advised Nippon Steel Corporation on the sale of its shares from Vallourec.
- Advised GenSight on its initial public offering (IPO) on Euronext Paris, numerous private placements and its prior bond financing with Kreos.
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Arnaud Duhamel is a partner within Gide's Banking & Finance practice group, and specialises in international capital markets and structured finance. He shares his time between Paris and London. His recent experience includes IPOs, right issues, equity-linked transactions and a number of French privatisations. His field of expertise also covers international debt financing and restructuring, ranging from medium-term note programmes to senior and hybrid securities, high yield bond offerings, repackagings as well as structured financings and products incorporating derivative instruments. Arnaud contributes significantly to the Firm's finance practice in emerging markets.
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Admitted to the Paris Bar, Counsel Guilhem Richard is a member of Gide's Banking & Finance practice group. He specialises in capital markets, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. He mainly advises issuers and lead managers on a wide range of market transactions (IPOs on French and/or foreign markets, in particular Nasdaq, rights issues, pipelines, private placements, block sales, OCEANE, ORA and high yield, etc.) and in a variety of sectors such as energy, medtech and biotech, tech, e-commerce and real estate. His practice also covers external growth and business transfer transactions and issues related to the governance of listed companies.
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The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Hubert Merveilleux du Vignaux, Melinda Stege Arsouze, Laurent Vincent, Arnaud Duhamel, Guilhem Richard