Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
The team at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is 'competent, pragmatic and close to its clients'. Its core areas of expertise including advising on the formation of and fundraising for general and sector-based small, mid, and large-cap funds, reorganisations, as well as the provision of advice on secondary transactions and regulatory matters. The team is co-directed by Nathalie Duguay, who is singled out for her 'exhaustive knowledge of the issues faced by management companies'. The 'technically excellent' Tiana Rambatomanga co-leads alongside her and frequently advises LPs on secondary transactions.
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Testimonials
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'Tiana heads up a team that is competent, pragmatic and close to its clients. Strong ESG ambitions.'
‘Tiana Rambatomanga and her team are impactful and innovative in the solutions they provide to clients. Tiana is very creative, which customers really appreciate.’
‘Very extensive knowledge of all facets of private equity and its latest trends (NAV facility, GP led transactions, etc.) with a good view of what the different market players are doing, which allows them to give relevant advice and to open original options.’
‘Nathalie Duguay is THE reference in Paris for fund training, and has an exhaustive knowledge of the issues faced by management companies. Tiana Rambatomanga is technically excellent.’
Key clients
- 21 Invest France
- Abénex Capital
- Access Capital Partners
- Adagia Partners
- Alpha Private Equity
- Altaroc
- Ambienta
- Anaxago
- Archipel
- Astorg Partners
- BlackFin Capital Partners
- BNPP Agility Capital
- Bpifrance
- Demeter Partners
- EDF Invest
- Ekkio Capital
- EM 8 Private Equity
- Epopée Gestion
- Five Arrows Managers
- Hivest Capital Partners
- Indigo Capital
- Ledger
- ODDO BHF
- PAI Partners
- Peqan
- Peugeot Invest (FPP)
- Power Corporation of Canada
- Sagard Private Equity
- Seven2 (former Apax Partners)
- Sista Fund
- SouthBridge Investments
- Tikehau
- UTI International Limited
Work highlights
- Assisted Abénex with the structuring and fundraising of its sixth fund, Abénex VI with a total commitment of €600m.
- Assisted Bpifrance with the structuring of its “Bpifrance Entreprises Avenir 1” (BEA 1) fund, enabling non-professional investors for the first time to invest under the same conditions, by taking equity stakes, mainly in unlisted French and European companies.
- Assisted Epopée Gestion, an investment firm based in France, with the structuring and first closing of the Epopée Infra Climat I fund dedicated to low-carbon infrastructure in the French Atlantic region.
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Leading individuals
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Nathalie Duguay, Tiana Rambatomanga