M&A and Corporate law

Smart offers
Highly esteemed for its expertise – from the creation of data rooms, to the definition of a dedicated strategy, to environmental due diligence, to negotiating environmental clauses in all types of contracts – our team helps you complete and secure all technical and legal elements of your transactions.
Our mergers and acquisitions team in Paris includes a “China Desk” composed of French and Chinese lawyers working hand in hand with our Shanghai and Hong Kong offices on matters related to China. This team in Paris team offers a useful support for European companies developing operations in China and is a key tool for Chinese companies wishing to invest in Europe and Africa.
LPA Law is the sole French law firm established in Japan with a local team composed of lawyers qualified in France and Japan that has been based in Tokyo for many years. LPA Law avocats strengthened its ties with its Tokyo based office by launching a « Japan Desk » in Paris. The team dedicated to the « Japan Desk » in Paris also consists of lawyers qualified in France and Japan, and assists its Japanese and French clients on all their transactions, in France, Japan as well as abroad - as for all their operations in relation to Franco Japanese cooperation on the African Continent.
Our team is one of the most active and well-known on the market for M&A transactions and financing in the renewable energy sector, with over 15 years of experience in this field. Every year, our firm works on dozens of legal due diligence, acquisition, sale, partnership, financing and refinancing transactions concerning renewable energy assets or other infrastructures, making it a key player in this business segment in France.
Our teams have broad experience in M&A transactions involving advanced technologies, particularly in the context of transatlantic and Asian transactions. In particular, we have worked on transactions for the acquisition, sale and investment in companies specialising in communications and mobility solutions, software publishing, digital tools and media, data management technologies (big data, privacy, open data, etc.), the cyber security industry and/or compression and processing of video content.
Raphaël Chantelot

Arnaud Depierrefeu

Ran Hu

Hubert Bazin

Sandra Hundsdörfer

Nicolas Vanderchmitt

Nigel Hartridge

Fanny Nguyen

Pascal Mages

Henrick Emeriau

Raphaële François-Poncet

Stéphane Erard

Michael Samol

Dr. Leif Gösta Gerling

Marc Veuillot

Dr. Gerhard Schwartz

Lazhar Sahbani

Pierre Marly

Sebastian Braun

Christian Sauer

Denis Bacina

Dr. Bernd Spieth

Arnaud Bourrut-Lacouture

Matthias Krämer

Julie Cittadini

Thomas Schrotberger

Olivier Kirfel

Frédéric Bailly

Dr. Fabian Tross

Dr. Andreas R. Bittner

Dr. Kay Jess

Ghislaine Lovet

Ayano Kanezuka

Lionel Vincent

Jean-Yves Toullec

Bérengère Roig

Andreas Feuerstein

Sébastien Thouvenot

Andrea Hilgard

Maxime Labonne

Michelle Wong

Marie-Gabrielle du Bourblanc

Bo Han

François Metz

Julie Weiss

Ina von Raven, LL.M (Cornell)

Airi Tozaki

Jean Médecin

Nathalie Maier-Bridou, LL.M.

Dr. Arno Maier-Bridou, LL.M. (Cornell)

Chin Hiang Wu

Meriem Laroussi

Our goal: supporting your development strategy
We advise companies and investment funds of all sizes and their executives in their M&A transactions, their restructurings and their governance.
Our team of some thirty lawyers works closely with the firm’s other legal experts, including in tax, labour, IP/IT, environment, banking and finance, energy and litigation. This allows us to offer a comprehensive assistance for all the legal issues you are facing in your projects.
Our offices in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, together with the members of our China and Japan Desks in Paris, extend our reach and enable us to assist our clients in their transactions in France and abroad.
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
- Best Lawyers in France
- Chambers Europe (France): Corporate/M&A: Mid-Market (Band 3)
- Chambers Global (Germany): Corporate/M&A – Expertise based abroad (Spotlight)
- Legal 500 EMEA (France): Mergers and acquisitions (Tier 6)
- Décideurs:
– Mergers & acquisitions: Transactions between €75 & €500 million (Excellent)
– Mergers & acquisitions: Distressed M&A (Excellent)
– Africa Desk – Corporate / M&A (Excellent) - Option Droit & Affaires:
– Mergers and Acquisitions < 200 M€ (3 stars)
– Capital innovation
– LBOs between €50 million and €300 million
– LBO – Advising management teams - IFLR1000 (France): Mergers & Acquisitions