From 28 to 30 January 2020, more than 1,600 key players in Private Equity are expected in Cannes for 3 days of networking, connection with each other, exchanges and business meetings.
Discover our private equity expertise on video:
What is the IPEM (International Private Equity Market) ?
Annual event not to be missed !
The International Private Equity Market, or IPEM, is the world’s largest private capital marketplace bringing together the industry’s complete value chain: General Partners, Limited Partners, Advisors and Business Services (1,600 key actors, 30 countries, 150 exhibitors).
IPEM key numbers:
For further information, please visit the IPEM website.
Come and meet our Private Equity expert lawyers
With more than 1,000 Merger & Acquisitions and Private Equity lawyers including more than 350 partners, our international team dedicated to Private Equity transactions received the Mergermarket awards European Private Equity Legal Advisor of the year and France M&A Legal Advisor of the year in 2017.
With lawyers in more than 42 countries, our multidisciplinary team guides your most critical transactions from start to finish.
Thanks to the synergy of our expertise in tax law, banking law, commercial and competition law and litigation, our team is mobilised to help you achieve the best result, in local markets and in foreign jurisdictions.
CMS boasts an international group of like-minded private equity lawyers across Europe (and beyond) able to provide a ‘total private equity‘ service offering. Our specialists assist you through all stages of a fund’s life – from fund formation and administration to the actual making of investments, portfolio monitoring, and exiting
They will be present at IPEM:
- Jean-Charles Benois, Partner Tax, CMS France
- Grégory Benteux, Partner Banking & finance, CMS France
- Christophe Blondeau, Partner Corporate/M&A, CMS France
- Lorenzo Bocedi, Counsel Corporate/M&A, CMS Italy
- Malte Bruhns, Partner, Corporate/M&A, CMS Germany
- Alexandre Chazot, Associate Banking & finance, CMS France
- Alexandre Delhaye, Partner Corporate/M&A, CMS France
- Cendrine Delivré, Partner – Public Law, Africa Pratice, CMS France
- Diego De Miguel, Partner – Tax, CMS Spain
- Vincent Dirck, Partner – Corporate/M&A, CMS Belgium
- Frédéric Feyten, Partner – Corporate/M&A Tax, CMS Luxembourg
- Benoît Gomel, Counsel – Corporate/M&A, CMS France
- Philippe Gosset, Counsel Tax, CMS France
- Thierry Granier, Partner Tax, CMS France
- Thomas Hains, Counsel, Corporate/M&A, CMS France
- Laurent Hepp, Partner Tax, CMS France
- Aurélien Hollard, Partner Banking & finance, CMS Luxembourg
- Peter Huber, Partner, Corporate/M&A, CMS Austria
- Arnaud Hugot, Partner Corporate/M&A, CMS France
- Ed Kinsbury, Partner Corporate/M&A, CMS UK
- Matias Labé, Counsel Tax, CMS France
- Pierre Le Roux, Partner Tax, CMS France
- Javier Leyva, Partner – Corporate/M&A, CMS Spain
- Gérard Maitrejean, Partner – Corporate/M&A, CMS Luxembourg
- Andrio Orler, Partner Tax, CMS Switzerland
- Stephan Pastor, Partner Banking & Finance, CMS Monaco
- Johann Roc'h, Partner Tax, CMS France
- Paolo Scarduelli, Partner – Corporate/M&A, CMS Italy
- Jacob Siebert, Partner Corporate/M&A, CMS Germany
- Jérôme Sutour, Partner Banking & finance, CMS France
- Massimo Trentino, Partner Corporate/M&A, CMS Italy
- Arnaud Van Oekel, Partner – Corporate/M&A, CMS Belgium
- Cornelia Wiendl, Counsel Tax, CMS Germany
CMS boasts an international group of like-minded private equity lawyers across Europe (and beyond) able to provide a ‘total private equity‘ service offering. Our specialists assist you through all stages of a fund’s life – from fund formation and administration to the actual making of investments, portfolio monitoring, and exiting.
For further information about our law firm:
- In France, our practices Private Equity and Corporate/Merger & acquisitions have been in the Top 5 rankings for many years such as Bloomberg, Mergermarket, Thomson Reuters.
- Our lawyers have been awarded at the Plumes et Caméras de l’économie et du droit. In the category "International issues and business world, professional press", the prize money was awarded to our article "Overview of private equity in Europe: France is a good student!", written by Laurent Hepp and Arnaud Hugot and published in the Lettre des Fusions & Acquisitions on March 26, 2018, in partnership with Option Finance magazine.

