Overview
Bertrand Delafaye advises strategic clients and investment funds on complex transactions, including private and public M&A, leveraged buyouts and joint venture transactions. Bertrand has also extensive experience in equity and equity-linked securities offerings, representing issuers, underwriters, and shareholders and more generally in securities and corporate law and corporate governance issues faced by publicly listed companies. He also has significant experience in the international arena, including cross-border M&A transactions.
Bertrand regularly handles pre- and post-closing disputes in the context of M&A transactions, and regularly advises on disputes among shareholders or joint venture partners.
Results
- Advised the shareholders of Limflow in the sale of Limflow to Inari Medical International Inc
- Advised Biocorp Productions (Euronext Growth) in the public tender offer of Novo Nordisk over its securities
- Advised Pherecydes Pharma (Euronext Growth) in its merger with Erytech Pharma (Euronext and Nasdaq) to form Phaxiam Therapeutics
- Advised the shareholders of La Compagnie des Desserts in its sale to PAI
- Advised Sensorion (Euronext Growth) in its private placement to US and EU investors
- Advised Maat Pharma (Euronext) in its IPO and subsequent private placements
- Advised DBV Technologies (Euronext and Nasdaq) in multiples private placements
- Advised the Engie Group in multiple investments and divestments
- Advised the Madrigall Group (including Gallimard and Flammarion) in multiple investments and divestments (including the acquisition of Les Editions de Minuit)
- Advised the Pierre Fabre Group in multiple investments and divestments (including the sale of Galenic and Elancyl)
- Advised the acquirer of Corsica Ferries
- Advised Scor in the sale of one of its subsidiaries
- Advised Engie in the sale of multiple solar plants to a German fund
- Advised the Argos Wityu funds in the acquisition of Juratoys
- Advised the Argos Wityu funds in the acquisition of La Compagnie des Desserts
- Advised Rougier Group in the sale of one of its subsidiary in a restructuring context
- Advised Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on its joint bid with Siemens to create a partnership with Alstom in the energy field
- Advised Colliers on the acquisition of a control stake of AOS Studley
Recognitions
- The Legal 500 EMEA, Recommended, 2022-2024
- The Best Lawyers in France, 2023-2025
Credentials
Education
University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, LLM (DEA), Business Law, 1997
University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, LLM (DESS), Insurance Law, 1996
Admissions
Paris
Languages
English
French
