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France

Mergers & acquisitions

M&A with a high regulatory aspect

— 2025 —

Leading

Bredin Prat

Karine Angel | Olivier Assant | Alexander Blackburn | Sophie Cornette de Saint Cyr | Barthélémy Courteault | Jean-Benoît Demaret | Patrick Dziewolski | Myriam Epelbaum | Clémence Fallet | Florence Haas | Benjamin Kanovitch | Christine Lenis | Didier Martin | Emmanuel Masset | José María Pérez | Matthieu Pouchepadass | Sébastien Prat | Kate Romain | Olivier Saba

Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier

Bertrand Cardi | Pierre Casanova | Laurent Gautier | Orphée Grosjean | Olivier Huyghues Despointes | Henri Savoie | Christophe Vinsonneau

Spitz Poulle Kannan

Arut Kannan | Jean-Baptiste Poulle | Nicolas Spitz

Weil, Gotshal & Manges

Jean-Baptiste Cornic | Emmanuelle Henry | Pierre-Alexandre Kahn | Yannick Piette | Agathe Soilleux

Excellent

1

Clifford Chance

Frédérick Lacroix | Jonathan Lewis

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Nicolas Barberis | Guy Benda | Guillemette Burgala | Yann Gozal | Hervé Pisani | Olivier Rogivue

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Olivier Bernardi | Stéphane Puel | Guillaume Rougier-Brierre

2

Norton Rose Fulbright

Bénédicte Denis | Karine Montagut

Winston Taylor

Gilles Bigot | Julie Vern Cesano-Gouffrant

Highly recommended

A&O Shearman

Alexandre Ancel | Marc Castagnede | Guillaume Isautier | Frédéric Moreau | Anne-Caroline Payelle | Romy Richter | Olivier Thébault

Change

Nicolas Cuntz | Quentin Lagier | Géraud Riom

Cleary Gottlieb

Andrew A. Bernstein | John D. Brinitzer | Pierre-Yves Chabert | Amélie Champsaur | Anne-Sophie Coustel | Rodolphe Elineau | Charles Masson | Marie-Laurence Tibi

Deloitte Société d’Avocats

Cécile Debin | Simon Fournier | Thibault Jézéquel | Laure Maffre

Jones Day

Alban Caillemer du Ferrage | Jean-Guillaume de Tocqueville

Latham & Watkins

Pierre-Louis Cléro

Linklaters

Marc Perrone

Orrick

Marine Jamain | Olivier Jouffroy | Alexis Marraud des Grottes | Jean-Pierre Martel

White & Case

Orion Berg | Emilie Rogey

Recommended

Corus

Thierry Bernard

Gowling WLG

Patrick Mousset

Publication date : Dec 31, 2025

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