White & Case LLP is regularly retained by some of France’s most high-profile companies to assist with large strategic transactions and also acts for international clients. The practice recently completed a number of deals in the renewable energy and infrastructure sectors. The team, which advises on both public and private M&A deals, also handles restructuring, spin-off and merger transactions. Marc Petitier impresses with his involvement in many key deals. Hugues Mathez and Guillaume Vallat are other names to note.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Relevance of advice, responsiveness, inventiveness in the face of constraints, pugnacity in negotiations’

  • 'Hugues Mathez has reliable technique. Saam Golshani has strong distressed M&A expertise, is very well connected and a good strategist.’

  • ‘Very strong team, excellent quality.'

  • ‘Hugues Mathez is an expert in corporate governance, a fine diplomat and negotiator, always resolutely pragmatic and with a solution-oriented approach, out of the box thinking.'

  • 'Nathalie Nègre-Eveillard: always on top of things, an outstanding technician, while maintaining a resolutely pragmatic and always business approach, tailor-made in all circumstances.’

  • ‘Responsiveness, availability, skills’.

Key clients

  • Forvia Faurecia
  • Engie
  • Cosfibel
  • Biosynex
  • Europcar Mobility Group
  • RTL Group
  • Play Group
  • Amber Capital
  • Ebro Foods
  • Bpifrance
  • Altitude Infrastructure Holding
  • Orange
  • FCDE
  • Legrand
  • Macif
  • Groupe Casino
  • EP Global Commerce
  • Luko
  • Pernod Ricard
  • Peugeot Frères Industrie
  • Korian
  • Total Eren
  • Schneider Electric Industies
  • Bouygues Construction

Work highlights

  • Advised Casino Group, together with Tikehau Capital and Bpifrance, on the sale of their majority stake in GreenYellow to Ardian Infrastructure.
  • Advised Eren Groupe and its subsidiary Total Eren on the acquisition by TotalEnergies of Total Eren.
  • Advised Teleperformance on its combined public tender offer, in cash and securities, over Majorel's share capital and voting rights, for an amount of €3bn.

Lawyers

Leading partners
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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Hugues Mathez, Saam Golshani

Other key lawyers

Marc Petitier, Guillaume Vallat, Nathalie Nègre-Eveillard