Capital Markets

The team assists clients with:         

• Initial public offerings:   The regulated market of Euronext Paris, Euronext Growth or Euronext Access: structuring the transaction, corporate documentation, drafting of the prospectus, instruction to the AMF  
• Securities offerings:   Capital increases, debt securities issues, structured product issues (e.g. OCA, OCEANE, ORNANE), operations combining fundraising and management incentives (e.g. OBSAAR)   
• Takeover bids:   Solicited or unsolicited takeover bids (offer, exchange, withdrawal), public repurchase bids, delisting, takeover strategies (concerted action), anti-takeover defense  
• Merger and acquisition transactions  involving listed companies   
• Assistance to listed companies and their managers on a daily basis: Board meetings, annual shareholders' meetings, annual and bi-annual reports, universal registration documents, reporting obligations, prevention of market abuse
• Investment in listed companies: Crossing thresholds and declarations of intent, control issues, other reporting obligations, prevention of market abuse
•  Governance:  Governance charters, best practices, directors' liability
• Stock exchange litigation: Litigation of takeover bids, assistance to issuers, their managers or shareholders in the context of AMF investigation procedures (e.g. repression of market abuse) 
• Listed companies employee ownership: Employee profit-sharing schemes such as employee savings plans, stock option plans, free share grants or free preference shares