Practice Areas

A comprehensive approach

August Debouzy provides premier legal services and expert guidance for all your M&A needs; we advise on major transactions, including acquisitions, sales, mergers, and joint ventures.

Our team is comprised of lawyers with extensive experience in financing, taxation, competition law, employment law, IT and patents. With a multi-disciplinary toolkit and an international network, we offer our clients comprehensive bespoke services.

Building long-term strong client relationships is our top priority.
 

Interventions

  • M&A

  • Acquiring and selling a business

  • Employment and tax implications of M&A transactions

  • Intra-group restructurings

  • Corporate governance and corporate affairs

  • Litigation

August Debouzy provides premier legal services and expert guidance for all your M&A needs; we advise on major transactions, including acquisitions, sales, mergers, and joint ventures.

Our team is comprised of lawyers with extensive experience in financing, taxation, competition law, employment law, IT and patents. With a multi-disciplinary toolkit and an international network, we offer our clients comprehensive bespoke services.

Building long-term strong client relationships is our top priority.
 

Acquiring and selling a business

With decades of experience in both national and international transactions, we have a proven track record of securing optimal results for our public and private clients.

Our lawyers are equipped to work on a wide range of transactions, such as takeovers, sales, distressed M&A, joint ventures, partial asset contributions, mergers, spin-offs, and more. 

We support our clients throughout the transaction process with extensive legal services, including: 
  • Target Identification
  • Risk audit 
  • Due diligence 
  • Drafting letters of intent 
  • Drafting confidentiality, exclusivity, and firm offer agreements
  •  Management of data room
  • Strategic advisory 
  • Negotiation and drafting contracts (asset and liability guarantees, financing, shareholder agreements...) 
  • Notification to authorities
  • Signing / Closing 
  • Compliance evaluations




 

Employment and tax implications of M&A transactions

Our team conducts a thorough evaluation of the social and tax implications before any merger or acquisition. This is to ensure our clients’ transactions are totally secure in the long term.

We provide a wide range of critical services in the leadup to major transactions, including compliance and risk audits of potential targets, analysis of the collective agreements in place, and engagement procedures with employee bodies. 

Intra-group restructurings

We support major corporations with their restructuring efforts, cross-border mergers, and subsidiary formation.

Corporate governance and corporate affairs

Our team provides constant support for any governance issues that may arise, including: 

  • Selecting tax and legal structure 
  • ​​Drafting regulations and charters 
  • Preparing resolutions and for shareholders meetings 
  • Incident management
  • Conflict of interest resolution 
  • Approval of annual accounts 
  • Management of corporate groups 
  • Assistance to Publicly Traded Companies 
  • Compliance and internal control audits 
  • Governance audits 
 

Litigation

Our litigation team is widely recognized for its expertise on a wide range of corporate disputes, including shareholder disputes, post-acquisition litigation, enforcement of warranties and liabilities, and executive staff liability cases. 

Team

  • Working languages: French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Czech and Russian

Rewards

August Debouzy's extensive work on several high-profile international transactions in 2019 helped establish the firm as a leading player in this space. We work with clients from various sectors, including: aerospace, defense, telecommunications, energy, commerce, healthcare, tech, and consumer credit. The firm specializes in major transactions and can mobilize a wide range of expertise to support our clients. Key figures in the team include Julien Aucomte, Julien Wagmann, Jérôme Brosset, and Valéry Denoix de Saint Marc.

LEGAL 500

Chambers & Partners Europe 2024

Corporate/M&A : High-end Capability

Band 5

Chambers & Partners Europe 2024

Julien Aucomte

Band 6

Chambers & Partners Europe 2024

Projects & Energy : International : Leïla Hubeaut

Band 4

Chambers & Partners Europe 2024

Restructuring/Insolvency : Laurent Cotret

Band 4

Chambers & Partners Global 2024

Corporate/M&A : High-end Capability

Band 5

Chambers & Partners Global 2024

Julien Aucomte

Band 6

Chambers & Partners Global 2024

Projects & Energy : International : Leïla Hubeaut

Band 4

Chambers & Partners Global 2024

Projects & Energy : Africa-wide : Leïla Hubeaut

Band 5

Legal 500 EMEA 2024

Industry focus : Energy

Tier 3

Legal 500 EMEA 2024

Private equity : LBO

Tier 3

Legal 500 EMEA 2024

Private Equity : venture/growth capital

Tier 3

Legal 500 EMEA 2024

Insolvency

Tier 3

Legal 500 EMEA 2024

Laurent Cotret

Leading individual

Legal 500 EMEA 2024

Mergers and acquisitions

Tier 4

IFLR 1000 2023

M&A

Tier 5

IFLR 1000 2023

Banking

Tier 5

IFLR 1000 2023

Restructuring

Tier 4

IFLR 1000 2023

Project development

Other notable

Décideurs

Transactions between €75M and €500M

Leading

Décideurs

Development capital transactions

Excellent

Décideurs

Advising companies and shareholders - Upper mid & large-cap

Excellent

Décideurs

Distressed M&A

Excellent

Décideurs

Venture capital operations

Highly recommended

Décideurs

Project finance

Highly recommended

Décideurs

Natural resources and renewable energies

Highly recommended

Décideurs

LBO mid-cap operations

Highly recommended

Décideurs

Small-cap equity and convertible capital markets

Highly recommended

Décideurs

Acquisition financing

Highly recommended

Décideurs

Corporate/M&A

Highly recommended

Décideurs

Management consulting

Recommended

The Best Lawyers in France 

Gilles August :
Banking Finance Law ; Corporate Governance and Compliance Practice ; Corporate Law ; Energy Law ; Government Relations Practice ; Investment ; Litigation ; Mergers and Acquisitions Law

Pierre Descheemaeker :
Banking and Finance Law ; Energy Law ; Minning Law

Jérôme Brosset :
Corporate Law ; Mergers and Acquisitions Law

Valery Denoix de Saint Marc :
Corporate Law ; International Arbitration ; Mergers and Acquisitions Law
 
Julien Wagmann :
Corporate Law

Leïla Hubeaut :
Energy Law ; Oil and Gas Law

Laurent Cotret :
Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Julien Aucomte :
Mergers and Acquisitions Law ; Private Equity Law

Philippe Lorentz :
Private Equity Law

Jean-Damien Boulanger :
Corporate Law

Option Droit & Affaires 2024

Procédures collectives

Tier 3/5

Option Droit & Affaires 2024

Prévention des difficultés et en renégociation de dette

Tier 3/5

Who's Who Legal 2024

Leïla Hubeaut : Mining

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