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Allen & Overy in France: Helping businesses to grow, innovate and thrive.
Allen & Overy lawyers in France support a wide range of clients, whether operating in France or abroad, including large French or international businesses, new innovative companies, banking and financial institutions, listed companies or public institutions.
Over the past decades, we have become true partners to our clients by offering them a wide range of comprehensive services for their day-to-day as well as their most complex and strategic matters.
Our work spans litigation and non-litigation matters and covers banking & finance, commercial litigation & international arbitration, competition & European law, employment & benefits, innovation & digital, intellectual property, international capital markets, mergers & acquisitions, public and environmental law, real estate, tax, as well as white-collar crime & regulatory litigation.
Our hard work and our values have made us leaders in the field for more than 30 years.
Our experience
Bolloré Group
Transportation & Logistics
Banking, Corporate
We advised the Bolloré Group on its divestment of 100% of Bolloré Africa Logistics, which includes all the transport and logistics activities of the Bolloré Group in Africa, to the MSC Group on the basis of the corporate value, net of minority interests, of EUR5.7 billion.
Hy24
Energy, Infrastructure
Public Law, Environmental Law
We advised Hy24, in relation to their initiative of accelerating the growth and expansion of the hydrogen ecosystem in Europe by deploying a European network of high-capacity green hydrogen stations benefiting from the pooling of industrial and financial players support, as well as public support.
Ubisoft
Gaming
Capital markets, Corporate
We advised Ubisoft on the placement of bonds convertible into and/or exchangeable for new or existing shares (“OCEANEs”) due 2028 by way of a public offering only to qualified investors, for a nominal amount of EUR470 million.
A banking syndicate
Financial Institutions, Aeronautics
Banking, ESG
We advised the banking syndicate on a new sustainability-linked syndicated revolving credit facility for Airbus SE for an amount of EUR8 billion. The documentation includes a margin adjustment mechanism based on ESG criteria.
McDonald's
Consumer & Retail, Food & Beverage
Corporate and Commercial litigation
We advised McDonald’s in respect of a “public interest judicial agreement” (Convention Judiciaire d’Intérêt Public – “CJIP”). The Judicial Court of Paris validated this agreement negotiated between McDonald’s and the French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (Parquet National Financier – “PNF”), thus terminating the investigation that the PNF had launched.
A multinational financial institution
Financial Institutions, Telecoms, Media & Technology
Capital Markets, Banking, Tax
We advised a multinational financial institution in the EUR564.2 million term loan facility, USD60.0 million term loan facility and EUR40.0 million multi-currency revolving credit facility to Technicolor Creative Studios SA, as French borrower, and Technicolor Creative Services USA, as U.S. borrower.
Ocean Winds
Energy, Banking, Project Finance, Corporate
We advised Ocean Winds (joint venture between ENGIE and EDP Renewables), in the context of the wind offshore projects in Normandie, Bretagne and Mediterranean Sea. These are key bids for Ocean Winds and are viewed by the French Government as priority projects.
Samsung Life Insurance
Private Equity, Infrastructure
Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions
We advised Samsung Life Insurance in relation to its 20% equity acquisition of the French infrastructure investment and management company Meridiam.
Ipsen
Pharma, Life Sciences & Healthcare
Corporate, Regulatory
We advised Ipsen on the sale of its consumer healthcare (CHC) business, including the drugs Smecta®, Forlax®, Tanakan®, Fortrans® and various production sites to Mayoly Spindler.
Groupama Immobilier
Real Estate
Real Estate Law, Tax
We advised Groupama Immobilier, as representative of a pool of investors made up in particular of Groupama Gan Vie and the AGRICA Group, in connection with the call for tenders opened by SOLIDEO and then the acquisition in VEFA of part of Sector E of the future Olympic and Paralympic Village.
A banking syndicate
Financial Institutions, Telecoms, Media & Technology
Banking
We advised BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Société Générale on the syndicated financing of the French unicorn Contentsquare, global leader in digital experience analytics. This financing which consists of a USD200 million revolving credit facility, is part of a USD600 million growth investment round. It is one of the very first syndicated financings set up on the French unicorn market, of which Contentsquare is one of the flagships in terms of valuation.
A global financial institution
Financial Institutions
Commercial Litigation, Class Actions
We successfully acted for a global financial institution in the very first class action in the financial sector initiated before the Paris Court of First Instance by a consumer association, in the first follow-on ‘collective claim’ introduced as a result of the conviction of this financial institution by the French markets authority (the AMF). The French supreme court rejected all of the association’s claims, making this decision an example and a point of reference for French and foreign entities likely to experience a similar situation.
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News: 30 November 2023
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News: 06 November 2023
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