Kramer Levin’s Paris office will not be included in the merger with Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) in order to focus on growth in the US. The news follows yesterday’s announcement that HSF is to merge with US law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel to create a $2bn revenue firm that will be known as […]
Ropes & Gray has made its first hires for its nascent Paris office, hiring a private capital-focused team from Clifford Chance. Fabrice Cohen, Emmanuel Mimin and Thierry Arachtingi are set to make the move over to the US firm when it finally opens its doors in the French capital. Rumours of Ropes opening a Paris […]
A raft of corporate heavyweights are acting on Clayton Dubilier & Rice’s (CD&R) €16bn acquisition of Opella, a subsidiary of the French pharmaceutical group Sanofi. CD&R will acquire a 50 per cent controlling stake in the business in one of the largest private equity deals in Europe this year. Kirkland & Ellis is leading for […]
Two of Linklaters’ Continental European offices are to be boosted with new partner arrivals from Freshfields and De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek. Both hires join the magic circle firm’s financial regulatory practice. Marc Perrone has joined the firm in Paris from Freshfields, while Mariken van Loopik makes the move over from De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in […]
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison is acting for General Atlantic on its bid to acquire 100 per cent of French software company Esker. The Paul Weiss team is led by partners William Aitken-Davies and Dan Schuster-Woldan and associate Richard Bach. They were supported by French firm Bredin Prat. Aitken-Davies and Schuster-Woldan are recent joiners […]
Latham & Watkins has lost another member of its Continental European transactional team, with a leveraged finance partner joining A&O Shearman in Paris. Michel Houdayer has made the move to A&O Shearman today (16 September). He was a Latham lifer, having joined the firm in 2002 and spent almost a decade in the partnership having […]
France’s largest firm Fidal has instructed lawyers to advise it on its ongoing dispute with KPMG, as the row over the accountant’s raid of a 145-strong team earlier this year continues apace. Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier has been brought in to advise Fidal. A mediation period to resolve the dispute between Fidal and KPMG ended yesterday […]
French firm Gide Loyrette Nouel has announced the “upcoming arrival” of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom M&A partner Olivier Diaz in a coup for its Paris office.
Gide Loyrette Nouel has appointed a new executive committee, led by newly elected senior partner Xavier de Kergommeaux. Paris-based banking and finance partner De Kergommeaux will succeed Baudouin de Moucheron, who has held the senior partner role since 2012. De Kergommeaux served as Gide’s managing partner between 2004 and 2009.
A team from Linklaters led by partner David Swinburne is joining Jones Day’s private equity practice in Paris.
The number of female partners working in independent European firms has risen by almost a third in five years, data gathered for The Lawyer European 100 2017 reveals.
Linklaters Paris partner Kiril Bougartchev and counsel Emmanuel Moyne have left the magic circle firm’s Paris office to launch a business crime boutique.