DLA Piper focuses its practice on corporate, private equity infrastructure and real estate transactions, as well as on fund structuring for both institutions and management investors. Fanny Combourieu heads up the practice, which benefits from her expertise in private equity infrastructure and real estate transactions. Raphaël Béra and Antoine Faure are both key names in the team, with Béra specialising in tax structuring and Faure being active in transfer pricing matters and tax audits.

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  • ‘Great technical expertise and responsiveness.’

  • ‘Flexible, attentive, available team with a high level of expertise.’

  • ‘Very good, close-knit and reliable team. Truly proactive.’

  • ‘Fanny Combourieu is a very good professional on whom one can count.’

Key clients

  • Access Capital Partners
  • Afflelou
  • AM Alpha
  • Antin Infrastructure Partners
  • Archimed
  • Ardian
  • Axa IM
  • BlackFin Capital Partners
  • Bridgepoint
  • Carlyle
  • Circana
  • Circet
  • ETC Group
  • Eurazeo
  • Harbert Management Corporation
  • HY24
  • Merieux Equity Partners
  • MML Capital Partners
  • Rothschild & Co / Five Arrows
  • Vauban Infrastructure Partners

Work highlights

  • Advising LumApps and its shareholders on Bridgepoint's acquisition of a majority stake in LumApps.
  • Advising Sofinnova Partners on the design of various structures for the carried interest and the co-investment of the team of a venture capital fund.
  • Advising Hy24 in connection with its mixed equity and debt investment in the French company HysetCo.

Lawyers

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Fanny Combourieu

Other key lawyers

Raphaël Béra, Antoine Faure