Practice Expertise

  • Corporate M&A and Private Equity
  • Restructuring
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Areas of Practice

  • Corporate M&A and Private Equity
  • Restructuring
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Profile

Philippe Matignon specializes in mergers & acquisitions, and more specifically in private equity and investment capital. He advises French and foreign investment funds in all their LBO and capital investment transactions. Philippe also advises teams of managers in relation to these transactions, and in corporate equity and group restructuring transactions.

Philippe Matignon is also involved in restructuring operations and joint ventures on behalf of industrial players.

Education
DESS(postgraduate degree) in business and taxation law - Universite Paris II (Pantheon-Assas), Master's degree in business law - Universite Paris II (Pantheon-Assas).

Areas of Practice

  • Corporate M&A and Private Equity
  • Restructuring

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
Advised Milestone in the sale of its stake in the Swania group to Henkel.
Advised LBO France in the acquisition of a majority stake in the Baobag group.
Advised TAT Group in the sale of its majority stake in Sabena technics to the funds Sagard, Towerbrook and Bpifrance
Advised Argos Wityu and Maison Berger Paris in the acquisition of the Devineau group.
Advised LBO France on the acquisition of its majority stake in the Prenax group and the concomitant acquisition by the Prenax group of the LM Info group.
Advised Milestone in the acquisition of a majority stake in the Max Plus group.
Advised LBO France on the acquisition of Eurotab Tabletting.
Advised the management of Novescia (Medical analysis laboratories) during the sale of Novescia to Cerba Group.
Advised Eurazeo PME during the sale of Gault and Fremont (packaging) to UI Gestion.
Advised Milestone Capital in the acquisition of various assets (the O’Cedar, Maison Verte, Baranne brands) belonging to Reckitt Benkiser.
Advised the Magnum Capital fund in the acquisition of the NACE group (educational institutions).
Advised the managers of the company CEBTP (consultancy engineering firm) during the sale of the company by the Grontmij group to a consortium of investment funds (Siparex, Cathay Capital, BPI France Investissements, and BNP Paribas développement).
Advised LBO France during the sale of the Pom’Alliance group to Cap Seine.
Advised LBO France during the sale of the Mazarine (communication) group to Fondations Capital.

Professional Associations
  • AFIC


Articles

Management Package : vers un peu plus de serenite
Option Droit & Affaires, octobre 2014

Operations avec effet de levier : le retour en grace des BSPCE
Option Finance 15 juillet 2014

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