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Investment banks
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France

Mergers & acquisitions

Complex or high litigation-potential stock-exchange transactions

— 2025 —

Leading

1

Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Anne Bizien | Jérémie Marrache

Lazard

Jean-Louis Girodolle | François Kayat | Vincent Le Stradic | Guillaume Molinier | Bertrand Moulet | Thomas Picard | Isabelle Xoual

Rothschild & Co

Laurent Baril | Grégoire Chertok | Alexandre de Rothschild | François Pérol

2

Bank of America

Stéphane Courbon | Jérôme Morisseau | Emmanuel Régniez

BNP Paribas

Sophie Javary | Luis Sancho Ferran | Thierry Varène

J. P. Morgan

Isabelle Seillier | Maja Torun

Morgan Stanley France

David Benichou | Jean-Baptiste Charlet

Excellent

1

Centerview Partners

Yann Krychowski | Mathieu Pigasse

Messier & Associés

Mathieu Gross | Jean-Marie Messier

Ondra

Yann Dever | Jean-Wilfried Diefenbacher

Perella Weinberg Partners

David Azéma | Philippe Capron | Cyrille Perard | Stéphane Richard | Tanguy Rivière

PJT Partners

Michel Antakly | Yves Ayache | Emmanuel Gueroult | René Proglio

Société Générale CIB

Thierry d'Argent

Wil Partners

André Haïk | Jacques Ittah

2

Altamoda

Grégoire Heuzé | Stéphne Zeghbib

Citigroup

Pierre Drevillon | Robin Rousseau

Crédit agricole CIB

Anne Hiebler

Deutsche Bank

Emmanuel Hasbanian

Highly recommended

HSBC

Alexandre Courbon

UBS Investment Bank

Bruno Hallak | Pierre Lescastéreyres

Publication date : Dec 29, 2025

In each tier, the firms and people are ordered alphabetically

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