Bredin Prat is a leading name in the field. A perfect fit to the firm’s high-end public M&A practice, the litigation team intervenes in headline public takeover battles concerning the country’s most high-profile companies. The team also acts for leading listed companies in dealing with sensitive shareholders’ conflicts and governance issues, while its range of expertise also extends to assisting listed companies, executives and other financial players facing AMF-led stock-market breach investigations. Key names in the team include litigators Jean-Daniel Bretzner and Florian Bouaziz and white-collar expert Eric Dezeuze.
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Key clients
- Air Liquide
- Alta Percier, Altarea et Altarea Management
- Celanese
- EDF
- Imerys
- NJJ
- Schneider Electric
- Simon Property Group
- Sodexo
Work highlights
- Advising NJJ press (a company controlled by Xavier Niel) in connection with the composition of the capital of the controlling holding company of Le Monde group.
- Advising Altarea within the context of a litigation initiated by the shareholders of the holding company of the Primonial group and a number of individual investors following the failure of the proposed acquisition of Primonial by Altarea.
- Advising Electricité de France (EDF) on all litigation in the context of the simplified takeover bid launched by the French State for shares and bonds convertible into and/or exchangeable for new and/or existing shares of EDF.
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Practice head
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Didier Martin, Jean-Daniel Bretzner, Florian Bouaziz, Eric Dezeuze, Guillaume Pellegrin, Sébastien Prat, Ève Duminy