Private equity

What we can do for you

  • Support, advice and structuring of private equity transactions in the context of majority or minority investments (LBO, LMBO, MBO, RES, etc.) for managers, investment funds, mezzanine funds and family offices
  • Letters of offer and exclusivity
  • Due diligence
  • Tax structuring
  • Structuring of investments in sectors with high regulatory constraints, particularly in the health sectors
  • Confidentiality agreements
  • Investment protocols / acquisition contracts
  • Asset and liability guarantee agreements
  • Shareholders’ agreements / Bond agreements
  • Asset and liability guarantee agreements
  • Structuring of investment vehicles (pledge, trust, etc.)
  • Drafting of senior credit agreements
  • Mezzanine financing contracts
  • Subordination Agreements
  • Structuring of security interests (sweet equity, profit-sharing, bonus share, BSPCE, tracking shares, etc.)
  • Issuance of all types of securities (OCA, ORA, BSA, etc.)
  • Structuring of management packages

Examples of what we have done for others

  • Advising a private equity fund in the structuring of the management package allocated to the founders: creation of the Manco, drafting of the agreements with the investment fund, drafting of the purchase and sale agreements
  • Advising a private equity fund in a share acquisition transaction (transaction amount €30m): drafting of the acquisition agreement and the ALM and issuance of a bond (OC) (€16m), drafting of the subordination agreement
  • Structuring of a management package: structuring of the Manco and the rules of governance, issuance of so-called tracer shares
  • Advising a private equity fund in connection with the subscription to a multi-tranche bond issue to finance the development of a group in the health sector (issue amount €110 million): drafting of the bond agreement, the subscription contract and the corporate documentation
  • Bank renegotiation with a banking pool for an LBO transaction carried out in 2016: review of the documentation and setting up of additional securities (refinancing amount €18m)
  • Advising a family office in connection with investment transactions in the hotel sector (transaction value €10m and €5m)
  • Counsel to a family office in the context of a reorganisation of its holdings in the field of agricultural land in South America: contribution transaction and issue of a bond (ORA) (transaction amount €10 million)