Experience

• Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Alstom in the sale of its ship building division, Chantiers de l'Atlantique, to Aker Yards.
  • AltaOne Capital in its acquisition, with Silver Lake, of a 37.6% interest in Cegid Group, valuing the company at ‎€580 million.
  • Beacon Capital Partners in its €100 million acquisition of "Le Doublon," two buildings in France.
  • Capital Group Private Markets and other selling shareholders in the $1.85 billion sale of Eaton Towers to American Tower. The deal won the “M&A Deal of the Year” category at the IFLR1000 Sub-Saharan Africa Awards.
  • Capital Group Private Markets, part of Capital Group, in its acquisition of a 35% interest in Tsebo, the leading Pan-African facilities services company.
  • Cinram in its acquisition of Saffron Digital Media from HTC.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its sale of a minority stake in Belron to Hellman & Friedman, BlackRock and GIC, which valued the company at €21 billion.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its investment in SOCOTEC Group, a leading global provider of testing, inspection and certification services focused on asset integrity.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of a 40% ownership interest in Belron, which valued the company at €3 billion.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of a controlling interest in Westbury Street, a leading independent contract caterer and hospitality services provider in the UK.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice as majority shareholder in Exova in the £620.3 million recommended cash acquisition of Exova by Element Materials Technology.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Ardian and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in their €2.1 billion acquisition of SPIE from PAI Partners.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Eurazeo and BAML Private Equity in their €3.7 billion leveraged buyout of Rexel.
  • Deutsche Bank in its co-investment into Medi-Globe.
  • Dover Corporation in its $225 million acquisition of Malema, a designer and manufacturer of flow-measurement and control instruments for the biopharmaceutical, semiconductor, and industrial sectors.
  • Dover Corporation, a diversified global manufacturer and global services provider, in its $631 million acquisition of Engineered Controls International.
  • Dover Corporation in its acquisition of Germany-based Ettlinger, a leading manufacturer of filtering solutions for the plastics recycling industry.
  • Dover Corporation in its €35 million acquisition of Caldera, a wide-format imaging software company headquartered in France.
  • Dover Corporation in its acquisition of ProGauge.
  • Dover Corporation in its $780 million acquisition of Wayne Fueling Systems from Riverstone Holdings.
  • Dover Corporation in its acquisition of Fairbanks.
  • Dover Corporation in its €425 million acquisition of Tokheim Group’s dispensers and systems businesses.
  • Julian Dunkerton, the co-founder of global fashion retailer Superdry, in his successful bid to return to the company’s board.
  • Eutelsat in its sale of a 50% interest in E25B to the Qatar Investment Authority.
  • Eutelsat in a joint venture with ViaSat to provide wholesale and retail broadband services in Europe.
  • Eutelsat in a partnership initiative to provide data connectivity to Sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Eutelsat in its $1.14 billion acquisition of Satélites Mexicanos.
  • Eutelsat in its $228 million acquisition of the GE-23 Satellite and associated customer contracts and orbital rights from General Electric Capital Corporation.
  • Gaz de France in its €91 billion merger with Suez and the registration of the transaction with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, to create GDF-Suez.
  • Glendower Capital in its role as part of a consortium of blue-chip institutional investors to invest approximately $530 million in six companies controlled by Argonne Capital Group.
  • Ingeus Investments Limited (a subsidiary of Providence Service Corporation) in its sale of its French subsidiary Ingeus SAS to German group LIVIA Corporate Development SE.
  • Lazard Freres’ founding families in the $1.6 billion buyout of their 35% interest in connection with Lazard’s initial public offering.
  • The Marandi family in its acquisition of The Conran Shop.
  • The Marandi family in its acquisition of ASHS Limited, the company operating under the Anya Hindmarch brand, from Mayhoola for Investments.
  • Najafi Companies in its acquisition of the European assets and business of Cinram International Income Fund, one of the world's largest providers of pre-recorded multimedia products and related distribution and logistics services.
  • Najafi Companies in its acquisition of DirectGroup France, Belgium, Switzerland and Québec from Bertelsmann AG.
  • Pardus Capital Management in its acquisition of a 10% stake in Atos Origin.
  • Pardus Capital Management in its acquisition of a 20% stake in Valeo.
  • Precision For Medicine in the $75 million investment in the company by TPG Growth.
  • Precision Health Holdings in its formation and equity capital raising from funds controlled by J.H. Whitney and Oak Investment Partners.
  • Precision Medical Group in its investment from funds managed by Blackstone.
  • Precision Medicine Group in a new $275 million investment and the restructuring of its capital structure.
  • A private investor in the acquisition of a 50% interest in the casual restaurant and motel businesses of Soho House.
  • Rexel in its $725 million acquisition of GE Supply from General Electric.
  • A Ripplewood-led consortium in its purchase of a minority interest in The Commercial Bank of Egypt.
  • Schneider Electric in its $2 billion acquisition of Telvent GIT, a software and solutions provider to the electricity, water, transportation and oil and gas industries.
  • Transdev, a global provider of mobility services, in its acquisition of FirstTransit, an EQT Infrastructure portfolio company.
  • Tristan Capital, the pan-European real estate investment manager, in its sale of a 31% interest in Tristan to Candriam, a New York Life affiliate, taking Candriam’s total stake in Tristan to 80%.
  • Tristan Capital, the pan-European real estate investment manager, in its sale of a 40% interest in Tristan to Candriam, a New York Life affiliate.
  • Two investors in their joint acquisition of Chesapeake Asset Management, a New York-based investment advisor.
  • United BioSource, a Whitney, Oak Hill and Berkshire Partners portfolio company, in its $730 million sale to Medco Health Solutions.
  • U.S. Bioservices, a Whitney portfolio company, in its $160 million sale of the company to AmerisourceBergen Corporation.
  • Zhongzhi Enterprise Group in the sale of a controlling stake in Aqseptence Group, an international equipment and solutions provider focused on water treatment and liquid/solid separation, to funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management.

• Capital Markets & Finance

  • B&M in the offering of £250 million of 8.125% senior secured notes due 2030, as well as the concurrent tender offer of a portion of its existing 3.625% senior secured notes due 2025.
  • B&M in its £250 million bond offering of 4.125% senior secured notes due 2022, and its related refinancing of certain of its existing senior credit facilities.
  • Bureau Veritas, a KKR and Wendel portfolio company, in its $7 billion initial public offering and listing on Euronext Paris.
  • Burgundy Technology Acquisition Corporation in its $300 million initial public offering.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Ardian in the initial public offering of SPIE and the listing of its shares on the Euronext Paris and follow-on sales of over €800 million of shares.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in B&M’s initial public offering and listing on the London Stock Exchange, and its follow-on sales of over £1 billion of shares.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in the financing and certain other aspects of its acquisition of BUT, the largest furniture retailer network in France, in a 50:50 partnership with WM Holding, a company related to the XXXLutz Group.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice as the majority shareholder of Exova in the company’s £220 million initial public offering.
  • Goldman Sachs and Calyon as lead managers in the €1.5 billion initial public offering of bioMerieux, listed on the Euronext Paris.
  • Lazard-Natixis, UBS Investment Bank and Piper Jaffray in NicOx's €100 million private placement of shares to Fonds Stratégique de Soutien and public rights offering.
  • Legrand and its shareholders, KKR and Wendel, in the €7 billion initial public offering of Legrand and subsequent sell-downs by KKR and Wendel.
  • Pernod Ricard in its acquisition financings over the past few years, including the financing for the acquisition of Absolut Vodka through a €15 billion multicurrency facilities agreement; the €9.3 billion financing of its acquisition of Allied Domecq; the issuance of $2.5 billion of U.S. dollar denominated fixed rate notes, comprising of $850 million 2.95% Fixed-Rate Notes due 2017, $800 million 4.25% Fixed-Rate Notes due 2022 and $850 million 5.50% Fixed-Rate Notes due 2042; its $1.5 billion offering of 4.45% fixed rate notes due 2022; its €1 billion six-year bond issue; its $1 billion offering of 5.75% fixed rate notes due 2021; its €800 million offering of bonds; and its €1.2 billion six-year bond issue.
  • Pernod Ricard in its €1 billion capital increase.
  • Ray Acquisition SCA in the €600 million offering of senior subordinated notes in connection with the €3.7 billion acquisition of Rexel.
  • Ray Investment, whose shareholders were funds controlled by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Eurazeo, BAML Capital Partners and Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec, in a series of accelerated book-building offerings of Rexel shares valued in excess of €3.3 billion.
  • Relevant parties in the financing aspects of the £2.5 billion acquisition of 337 petrol forecourts in the UK, and more than 400 associated sites.
  • Rexel in the placement of €400 million of 5.250% unsecured senior sustainability-linked notes due 2030.
  • Rexel in its €600 million offering of 2.750% notes due 2026.
  • Rexel in over €5 billion of high yield note offerings involving € and $ denominated notes.
  • Rexel in the amendment and extension of its €1.1 billion revolving credit facility, with Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank as facility agent and swingline agent.
  • Rexel and its shareholders, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Eurazeo and BAML Private Equity, in the €6.5 billion initial public offering of Rexel shares and its listing on Euronext Paris.
  • SPIE in the €2.16 billion leveraged capitalization and refinancing of its existing debt.
  • SPIE in its €375 million offering of 11% senior notes due 2019.