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France

Mergers & acquisitions

Transactions exceeding €500 million

— 2025 —

Leading

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BDGS Associés

David Andréani | François Baylion | Antoine Bonnasse | Hannah Cobbett | Youssef Djehane | Jérôme du Chazaud | Lucile Gaillard | Marc Loy | Thomas Meli | Jean-Emmanuel Skovron

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 | Adrien Simon

Cleary Gottlieb

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

Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier

Forrest Alogna | Emmanuel Brochier | Bertrand Cardi | Pierre Casanova | Jean-Michel Darrois | Cécile de Narp | Hugo Diener | Charlotte Ferran | Laurent Gautier | Orphée Grosjean | Olivier Huyghues Despointes | Alain Maillot | Isabelle Touré-Farah | Christophe Vinsonneau

Weil, Gotshal & Manges

David Aknin | Jean Beauchataud | Guillaume Bonnard | Frédéric Cazals | Jean-Baptiste Cornic | Alexandre Duguay | Emmanuelle Henry | Pierre-Alexandre Kahn | Yannick Piette | Claude Serra | Agathe Soilleux

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Gide Loyrette Nouel

Marcus Billam | David Boitout | Julien David | Olivier Diaz | Christophe Eck | Jean-Gabriel Flandrois | Paul Guillemin | Antoine Lelong | Antoine Tézenas du Montcel | Anne Tolila | Axelle Toulemonde

Skadden

Arash Attar-Rezvani | Pascal Bine | Nicola Di Giovanni | Armand W. Grumberg

Excellent

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A&O Shearman

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

August Debouzy

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Julien Aucomte | Gilles August | Jean-Damien Boulanger | Jérôme Brosset | Valéry Denoix de Saint Marc | Étienne Mathey | Antoine Ricol | Julien Wagmann

Cabinet Bompoint

Dominique Bompoint | Louis-François Guéret | Éric Laut

De Pardieu Brocas Maffei

Sandra Aloui | Grégoire Balland | Etienne Boursican | Thomas Bréart de Boisanger | Matthieu Candia | Cédric Chanas | Hugues de Fouchier | Nicolas Favre | Patrick Jaïs | Frédéric Keller | Magali Masson | Eric Muller | Jean-François Pourdieu | Mathieu Retiveau | Guillaume Touttée

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Nicolas Barberis | Guy Benda | Guillemette Burgala | Yann Gozal | Alan Mason | Hervé Pisani | Julien Rebibo | Olivier Rogivue

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Cyril Boulignat | Frédéric Bouvet | Christopher Theris | Edouard Thomas | Laurence VINCENT

Hogan Lovells

Florian Brechon | Arnaud DEPARDAY | Xavier Doumen | Jean-Marc Franceschi | Sébastien Gros | Stéphane Huten | Christophe-Marc Juvanon | Paul Leroy

Proskauer Rose

Laurent Asquin | Matthieu Lampel | Stéphanie Martinier | Xavier Norlain | Aymeric Robine | Jeremy Scemama

White & Case

Julien Bensaid | Franck De Vita | Brice Engel | Saam Golshani | Alexis Hojabr | Nathalie Nègre-Eveillard | Marc Petitier | Guillaume Vitrich

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Clifford Chance

Aline Cardin | Fabrice Cohen | Benjamin de Blégiers | Gilles Lebreton | Marianne Pezant | Laurent Schoenstein

Kirkland & Ellis

Emmanuel Enrici | Louis Gosset | Vincent Ponsonnaille | Laurent Victor-Michel

Latham & Watkins

Alexander Benedetti | Pierre-Louis Cléro | Denis Criton | Alexander Crosthwaite | Hervé Diogo Amengual | Olivier du Mottay | Thomas Forschbach | Gaëtan Gianasso | Charles-Antoine Guelluy | Patrick Laporte

Mayer Brown

Olivier Aubouin | Bernard Ayache | Gwenaëlle de Kerviler | Ségolène Dufétel | Guillaume Kuperfils | Alain Lévy | Hadrien Schlumberger | Grégoire Zeitoun

Sullivan & Cromwell

Gauthier Blanluet | Garth W. Bray | Nicolas de Boynes | Olivier de Vilmorin

Highly recommended

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Lacourte Raquin & Associés

Nicolas Jüllich | Guillaume Roche | Renaud Rossa | Serge Tatar

Linklaters

Bruno Derieux | Florent Mazeron | Pierre Thomet | Pierre Tourres

Orrick

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

Paul Hastings

Charles Cardon | Sébastien Crépy | Arthur de Baudry d’Asson | Olivier Deren | Xavier Petet

Ropes & Gray

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Thierry Arachtingi | Fabrice Cohen | Emmanuel Mimin

VGG & Associés

Pascale Girard | Frédéric Grillier | Yann Grolleaud

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Aures Conseil

Christophe Perchet | Jean-Christophe Devouge

Gibson Dunn

Bertrand Delaunay | Benoit Fleury | Bernard Grinspan | Ariel Harroch | Patrick Ledoux

Willkie Farr & Gallagher

Christophe Garaud | Cédric Hajage | Daniel Hurstel | Eduardo J. Fernandez | Annette Péron | Lionel Spizzichino | Fabrice Veverka

Publication date : Dec 30, 2025

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