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Corporate/M&A

The challenges

We provide assistance to companies and their directors at every stage of their deals: creation, development, transfer. Our expertise, understanding of our clients’ business and experience enable us to propose adapted solutions based on a combination of business law and taxation considerations. We aim to:

  • Help directors make strategic decisions
  • A ssess the business implications of the transactions we advise on
  • Provide clients with effective and constructive assistance throughout the structuring and negotiation of transactions
  • Ensure that deals are technically watertight in a pragmatic manner.  

Our practice areas

Business creation

  • Choosing adapted structures
  • Forming companies
  • Arranging joint ventures and shareholder relations (shareholders’ agreements).

Business development:

  • Deal structuring, legal engineering, financial structuring, equity deals, investor relations
  • Sales and acquisitions: negotiations, due diligence, agreements
  • Legal structuring: mergers, spin-offs, partial mergers
  • Managing crisis situations, shareholder disputes
  • Assisting companies facing financial difficulties insolvency and bankruptcy
  • Stock exchange law.

Business transfer:

  • Asset structuring
  • Real estate investment strategy.  

Our approach

We offer clients tailored services based on our understanding of the company’s specific situation. We provide adapted solutions which are designed based on clients’ needs. The high stability and low turnover of our teams enables us to develop a thorough understanding of companies and their history.

Moreover, we closely monitor legal developments. As a result, we are able to propose solutions to our clients which make the most of new opportunities. Finally, our clients benefit from the firm’s wide-ranging expertise in all areas of business law.

Our clients

Listed and unlisted companies in all business sectors.

 
Jean Philippe Clement
Jean Philippe Clement
Partner
France, Lyon
Jean-Philippe Clément is a partner in the Corporate law department of CMS Francis Lefebvre Lyon. Jean-Philippe specializes in mergers & acquisitions transactions, corporate restructurings, corporate...
Nicole Flandin
Nicole Flandin
Partner
France, Lyon
Nicole Flandin joined the firm in 1999. Nicole is a partner in the Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions department of CMS Francis Lefebvre Lyon. She works mainly on mergers & acquisitions, including LBO...
Jean Thomas Heintz
Jean-Thomas Heintz
Partner
France, Lyon
Jean-Thomas Heintz joined CMS Francis Lefevbre in 2007. He has been a partner since 2010. Jean-Thomas is a partner in the Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions team at CMS Francis Lefebvre Lyon. He mainly...
Jean-Charles Daguin
Jean-Charles Daguin
Counsel
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Jean-Charles Daguin joined CMS Francis Lefebvre for the first time in 2006, until 2014. He then worked as an in house M&A counsel for CNP Assurances. In 2023, he returned to CMS Francis Lefebvre as a...
Stephanie Guillot
Stephanie Guillot
Counsel
France, Lyon
Stéphanie Guillot joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in November 2022 as Counsel in the Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions department of CMS Francis Lefebvre Lyon.  In addition to her traditional corporate law...
Dylan Allali
Dylan Allali
Associate
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Dylan Allali is a Corporate and M&A lawyer at CMS Francis Lefebvre since 2022. He joined CMS Francis Lefebvre after completing her internship as a trainee lawyer at the firm. Dylan is involved in corporate...
Romaric Buttet
Romaric Buttet
Associate
France, Lyon
Romaric Buttet has been an associate within the Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions Department of CMS Francis Lefebvre Lyon since 2013. Romaric work focuses primarily on mergers & acquisitions, including...
Julie Chatelain
Julie Chatelain
Associate
France, Lyon
Julie Chatelain is an associate within the Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions Department of CMS Francis Lefebvre Lyon. Her work focuses primarily on corporate law, mergers & acquisitions transactions...
Lucas Chevaux
Lucas Chevaux
Associate
France, Lyon
Lucas Chevaux joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Lyon in 2019 within the Corporate/Mergers & acquisitions Department. He is involved in particular in corporate law, mergers & acquisitions transactions, including...
Sara Gharbi
Sara Gharbi
Associate
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Sara joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2019. She formerly worked as a M&A and corporate lawyer about four years at Herbert Smith Freehills LLP in Paris. Sara advises listed and unlisted companies on many...