Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Superb private equity team.’

  • ‘Team that masters the legal and technical aspects of LBO operations.’

  • ‘Marie Pouget is a very good professional, very available and endowed with strong technical qualities.’

  • ‘Excellent PE / LBO team, with a great level of involvement at all levels of the hierarchy, in a well-established full services independent firm.’

  • ‘Marie Pouget is an outstanding negotiator who is able to create consensus. She is proactive, reliable, innovative and a very smart and committed deal-maker.’

  • ‘Marie Pouget's team: very efficient, with perfect interaction and mastery of the subjects. Files are handled with rigor and fluidity.'

  • ‘A top-notch team which handles complex transactions including complex equity and debt financing transactions with cross-border aspects. Marie Pouget and her team deliver top quality services and succeeded in quickly breaking through in the French private equity market. ’

  • ‘Marie Pouget is creative, reliable, technical, business driven and quite good at negotiating. She is an easygoing person, including when it comes to work under high pressure.’

Key clients

  • Five Arrows
  • Isatis Capital
  • Groupe HLD
  • TowerBrook Capital Partners
  • Demeter Investment Managers
  • Bridgepoint Capital Development
  • Abenex Capital
  • Andera Partners

Work highlights

  • Advised TowerBrook Capital Partners on a leverage recapitalisation transaction by Sabena Technics Participation.
  • Advised Five Arrows Sustainable Investments on a secondary leveraged buyout (LBO) transaction on Financière Canella (SMRD-BAT 92’s and Harmonie’s holding) involving Andera Partners.
  • Advised Senef Soft, its founders, and its management team on the acquisition of a minority stake in the client by Isatis Capital—an independent private equity firm specialising in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) financing – accompanied with a cash-out by the founders.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Marie Pouget

Other key lawyers

Linda Bessa