Overview
McDermott Will & Emery has advised Ageras, a unique platform enabling small businesses to centralize banking services, accounting and tax returns, in an exclusive agreement with Société Générale Group with a view to acquiring its subsidiary Shine, a FinTech specialized in payment services for the self-employed and small businesses.
This transaction remains subjected to the usual conditions precedent, and to the approval of the relevant financial and regulatory authorities.
The McDermott Paris and McDermott Cologne teams involved in the transaction were led by Diana Hund and Fabrice Piollet (partners in Paris) for corporate aspects, and by Renate Prinz (partner in Cologne) for regulatory aspects.
With the support of :
- Marie Mouly and Robin Lamour (associates in Paris) on the corporate aspects of the transaction;
- Nicolette Kost de Sevres (partner in Paris), Lina Nikolaidou and Malik Taiar (associates in Paris) and Kai Grandpierre and Darius Mosleh (associates in Cologne) on regulatory aspects of the transaction;
- Jilali Maazouz (partner in Paris), Abdel Abdellah and Naré Arshakyan (associates in Paris), on employment law;
- Charles de Raignac (associate in Paris) in intellectual property;
- Hélène Adda (associate in Paris) on data protection aspects.
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