With offices in Paris, Lyon, Aix-Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes, and Lille, LAMARTINE CONSEIL possesses leading expertise in the coordination, negotiation, and securing of its clients’ private equity transactions.

As a leading player in this field for many years, our team advises investment funds, SMEs and mid-sized companies, innovative companies and managers and/or founders on their private equity transactions.

Our areas of practice in Private Equity

Our support covers the main legal, labour law and tax aspects of private equity transactions (minority or majority investors):

• LBO (LBOs, OBOs, MBOs, MBIs, etc.);
• growth capital;
• venture capital, particularly in the new technologies and biotech sectors; and
• turnaround capital transactions.

Thanks to our collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach to the law, our team is regularly involved in:

• acquisition and/or disposal audits;
• legal and tax engineering for investment and fund-raising packages;
• drafting and negotiating contractual documentation;
• setting up profit-sharing schemes, in particular management packages, for managers, key executives and employees in general;
• monitoring post-closing transactions (group management, restructuring, external growth, etc.); and
• pre-litigation advice in the event of post-investment disputes.