Eduardo Fernandez
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Client SatisfactionThe private equity group at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP regularly handles large-cap private equity transactions including cross-border leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, platform acquisitions, and exits, working across all mainstream sectors. The practice is co-led by a trio of partners, comprising: Eduardo Fernandez, who has particular experience advising on transactions involving the professional services, consumer products, food and healthcare segments; and private equity and M&A specialists Christophe Garaud and Cédric Hajage. Additional names to note include Gabriel Flandin, Grégory de Saxcé, Hugo Nocerino. Gil Kiener left the firm in December 2022.
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Testimonials
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‘Experienced team, which follows the LBO market very closely and therefore knows market practices well. Team which knows how to make itself available to its clients. Good value for money in their services.’
‘Christophe Garaud knows the market and the different players well, he has a business vision of his advisory role and comes with solutions when there is an obstacle in a transaction; he knows how to mobilize the right resources internally to support his clients.’
‘Very professional team and flexible on the fee structure. Impeccable quality of service.'
‘Eduardo Fernandez is the best. Flexible, international, firm but pragmatic. Fast. Mathilde Faure is a rising star.’
Key clients
- 21 Invest France
- Abénex Capital
- Adagia Partners
- Aglae Management
- Alpha Private Equity
- Aquiline Capital Partners
- Ardian
- Astorg Partners
- BIM
- BlackFin Capital Partners
- BNPP Agility Capital
- Bpifrance
- Cobalt Capital
- CVC Capital Partners
- Ekkio Capital
- EQT
- Equistone Partners Europe
- Five Arrows Managers
- IK Partners
- Insight Partners
- Intermediate Capital Group
- Latour Capital
- Lauxera Capital Partners
- Montefiore Investment
- OpenGate Capital
- PAI Partners
- Peugeot Invest (FFP)
- Qualium Investissement
- RAISE Investissement
- Sagard
- Searchlight Capital Partners
- Seven2 (former Apax Partners)
- Syntagma Capital
- TA Associates
- The Carlyle Group
- Vaultier7
- Warburg Invest
- Waterland Private Equity
- Weinberg Capital Partners
- Wendel
Work highlights
- Assisted PAI Partners with the €2.3bn sale of Perstorp to Petronas Chemicals group.
- Assisted PAI Partners with the acquisition of Looping Group, a pan-European leisure park operator, from Mubadala Capital’s Private Equity business and Bpifrance, the French national investment bank.
- Assisted IK Partners, a mid-market European private equity group, with the sale of Exxelia to Heico Corporation.
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Eduardo Fernandez, Christophe Garaud, Cédric Hajage