Viguié Schmidt & Associés
Viguié Schmidt & Associés's 'responsive and pragmatic' team is noted for assisting venture capital funds and corporations with strategic venture capital investments involving the, health, property, and food technology segments. Louis Chenard steers the practice and is lauded as a 'good negotiator; solution-oriented and pragmatic'. Chenard specialises in assisting French and international clients with venture/growth capital and M&A transactions.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘Very responsive and pragmatic. High desire to find a solution. Client-oriented and solution-oriented.’
‘Louis Chenard: Good negotiator; solution-oriented and pragmatic.’
‘Very professional team and very attentive to problems.’
‘Louis Chenard - very strong personal and professional qualities.’
‘Excellent team from a technical point of view on capital-intensive subjects for SMEs / Startups. Very good communication and availability.’
Key clients
- Astanor
- IVP
- Educapital
- LBO France
- Alter Equity
- Headline (formerly e.ventures)
- Pace Capital Fund
- Edenred Capital Ventures
- Danone Manifesto Venture
- Calcium Capital
- Caisse des dépôts et consignations
- Alstom
- Revent
- Apex Ventures
- Evolem
- Otium
- Meritech
- Bpifrance
- earlybirds
- Triodos
- Red Alpine
Work highlights
- Counsel to IVP in the context of Pigment's EUR 80m venture capital financing (Series C).
- Counsel to LBO France in connection with ICG MEUR's 240m investment in Zeplug.
- Counsel to Astanor, Redalpine and Bpifrance in the context of Umiami's EUR 30m venture capital financing round.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Louis Chenard