Clifford Chance often assists leading banks and financial advisers in ECM transactions and also regularly advises issuers. The Paris team, which combines French and US law capabilities, has been particularly active recently advising on deals concerning the German, French, Dutch and Belgium stock markets and is also experienced in advising on share capital increases via private placement deals. Through US securities expert Alex Bafi, the team also handles innovative Rule 144A IPO transactions. The experienced Aline Cardin and counsel Olivier Plessis are other key team members. Anne Lemercier offers collective employees’ shareholder share plan advice to leading companies.
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Key clients
- BNP Paribas
- Natixis
- Crédit Agricole CIB
- Bryan Garnier
- International Banks
- Goldman Sachs
- Citigroup
- Morgan Stanley
- J.P. Morgan
- Deutsche Bank
- HSBC
- UBS
- Barclays
- Credit Suisse
- ING
- ABN Amro
- Rabobank
- Jefferies
- La Française des Jeux
- Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield
- Alstom
- Azelis
- Airbus
- Ubisoft
- Europcar Mobility Group
- PrimaryBid
- Jackpotjoy
- Accor
- Veolia
- Carmila
- Exclusive Networks
- Arkema
- Scot
- Nicox
- Suez
- Apax
- Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
- Permira
Work highlights
- Advising the International Banking Syndicate on Porsche AG's offering of 113,875,000 preferred shares.
- Advising Dongfeng and BNP Paribas on the accelerated bookbuild offering of ordinary shares in the capital of Dutch company Stellantis N.V.
- Advising Nicox on completing a financing through a private placement of 6,849,316 new shares with warrants attached to subscribe up to 6,849,316 new shares.
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Alex Bafi, Aline Cardin, Jonathan Lewis, Anne Lemercier, Olivier Plessis