Jean-François Adelle, Thierry Brun and Laurent Sablé are some of the key finance partners at JeantetAssociés. Sablé in particular has a strong practice in relation to Moroccan deals while the team’s portfolio of work in general shows versatility and breadth....
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Jean-François Adelle, Thierry Brun and Laurent Sablé are some of the key finance partners at JeantetAssociés. Sablé in particular has a strong practice in relation to Moroccan deals while the team’s portfolio of work in general shows versatility and breadth. Martine Samuelian handles banking litigation cases.
Deals
Alexandre Tron worked on the negotiations and drafting of finance agreements for the Banque de l'Economie du Commerce et de la Monétique, Banque CIC Est, Société Générale and Crédit Lyonnais for the financing of the acquisition of champagne brand Piper Heidsieck and also assisted Banque CIC Est, Crédit Lyonnais and Société Générale on a substantial financing agreement.
Jean-François Adelle led a couple of transactions, advising Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations on setting up a trust to manage funds related to redundancy packages from companies in the Seine-Maritime region and acting for Lloyds TSB on the French aspects of a £125 million refinancing for two UK companies in the Bodycote Group.
Laurent Sablé paired up with Adelle to advise Saudi bank Apicorp on a $45 million sharia governed financing to Moroccan refining company SAMIR for the purchase of crude oil.
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Frank Martin Laprade leads this firm in both debt and equity work, where the firm won solid mid-cap mandates across the debt and equity capital markets. Nicolas Partouche also made partner in the team this year....
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Frank Martin Laprade leads this firm in both debt and equity work, where the firm won solid mid-cap mandates across the debt and equity capital markets. Nicolas Partouche also made partner in the team this year. The team has considerable expertise in relation to the Alternext.
Deals
Frank Martin Laprade led on all the firms highlight debt capital markets mandates. A team advised Assystem on its offering of €92 million in share settled bonds convertible into new shares and/or exchangeable for existing shares (ORNANEs) in July 2011. It was one of two ORNANE offerings that the firm handled in 2011. Laprade also worked on the Alternext-listed Solabios convertible bond issuances.
On the equity side, Laprade and senior associate Samuel Pallotto were working for a client on its potential listing on the Paris Alternext and were also working with senior associate Nicolas Goetz on the potential listing of a close ended investment trust.
Lapadre and Pallotto assisted Archos on its €30 million share capital increase with preferential rights to existing shareholders. A final deal saw Jean-François Adelle and Laprade advise Deerfield Capital and Éclat Holding on the issue of French equity warrants and US warrants by Flamel Technologies in March 2012.
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The main lawyer for M&A is Philippe Portier, who also co-heads the private equity team (PE) with Yvon Dréano. Nicolas Partouche, Philippe Matignon and Alexandre Tron all lead on corporate transactions....
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The main lawyer for M&A is Philippe Portier, who also co-heads the private equity team (PE) with Yvon Dréano. Nicolas Partouche, Philippe Matignon and Alexandre Tron all lead on corporate transactions.
Recent changes saw the firm build the team with the hire of Paul-Henri de Cabissole from De Pardieu Brocas Maffei, Nicole Goulard from Landwell PwC and promote Nicolas Partouche to partnership.
Deals
Nicolas Partouche advised Canaccord Financial on the public offering launched in the UK by Canaccord Financial on Collins Stewart Hawkpoint while Thierry Brun acted for Smurfit Kappa Participations on the merger with Smurfit Kappa Packaging France and Smurfit Kappa Offset and Emballages.
Philippe Matignon led the firm to represent Groupe Figaro on the sale of its majority stake in l’Imprimerie, a newspaper printer, to Riccobono Group in October 2011.
Alexandre Tron was active on the private equity side working confidential deals at the high end of mid-cap while Frank Martin Laparde advised Time Investors on a couple of strategic investments. Matignon and Tron won an instruction from LBO France Gestion for a €45 million transaction.
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JeantetAssociés has a good reputation among clients and peers for its projects and corporate sponsor side work. Its strongest suits are in Africa projects and in the energy, mining, natural resources and infrastructure sectors....
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JeantetAssociés has a good reputation among clients and peers for its projects and corporate sponsor side work. Its strongest suits are in Africa projects and in the energy, mining, natural resources and infrastructure sectors. The firm has a good footprint in Francophone Africa.
Thierry Lauriol and Hugues de la Forge are the key partners.
Deals
The firm handled a good stream of transactions focused on the African continent. Hugues de la Forge won mandates from the Office National de Chemin de Fer of Morocco, to advise on contractual matters for a €2 billion high speed rail link from Casablanca to Tangiers, and Caisse des Dépôts et Consignationson the financing of a number of schools in France totalling €400 million.
Thierry Lauriol worked on mandates for Petro Iviore in relation to the financing and construction of a LNG (liquefied natural gas) plant in Abidjan, Côte d’Iviore. Lauriol also represented Total Gabon on the financing for an enhanced oil recovery project in Gabon.
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JeantetAssociés promoted Nicolas Partouche to partner promotion in 2011, boosting the senior bench at the team, and although the firm has lost some key people in recent years it still counts on Philippe Portier, Yvon Dréano, Thierry Brun and Paul Cocchiello, who all ran cases in 2012.
Deals
Philippe Portier and Nicolas Partouche have been busy advising Groupe Navimo on a new stage of a financial restructuring in the light of conciliation proceedings and on possible insolvency measures pending for late 2012....
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JeantetAssociés promoted Nicolas Partouche to partner promotion in 2011, boosting the senior bench at the team, and although the firm has lost some key people in recent years it still counts on Philippe Portier, Yvon Dréano, Thierry Brun and Paul Cocchiello, who all ran cases in 2012.
Deals
Philippe Portier and Nicolas Partouche have been busy advising Groupe Navimo on a new stage of a financial restructuring in the light of conciliation proceedings and on possible insolvency measures pending for late 2012. The company has raised €5 million and several subsidiaries are waiting to enter insolvency proceedings.
In 2012, Partouche was also representing FDPA and Montupet Group on the restructuring of FDPA’s subsidiary, which implicates 470 employees. The case was politically sensitive as one of the group’s principal clients is partially state-owned car company Renault. Coincidentally, since 2011 the firm, led by Paul Cocchiello, has been representing Renault Credit International on receivership proceedings and suits against a number of guarantors.
In other cases, Yvon Dréano was assisting Groupe Lagasse on proposed financial restructurings prior to the opening of insolvency proceeding for the group’s companies in France and Thierry Brun represented Gaumont as a creditor in the insolvency proceedings of Filmax.
Brun and Cocchiello teamed up to advise Heights UK on the liquidation of Heights France; a matter which involved several litigation cases in French courts.
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