Acting mainly for corporations and both national and multinational groups, our lawyers stand out due to their strong expertise in transactions and capacity to deal with the most complex issues.
Bird & Bird is an international law firm with more than 900 lawyers based in 23 offices in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
The firm combines specialist skills in all fields of business law, along with operational knowledge of our clients’ needs, allowing our teams to assist in rolling out operations, from the most traditional to the most complex and innovative.
In France, Bird & Bird is present in Paris and Lyon with over 90 lawyers including 19 partners.
The Corporate - Mergers and Acquisitions team incorporates around twenty lawyers, dedicated to general practice in Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity, Capital Market, public securities offerings partnerships and other restructuring operations.
Our specialist skills
Stock exchange law and Securities
- General assistance to listed companies (exchange regulations, information obligations, thresholds crossing, shareholders agreements, etc)
- Takeover bids (mandatory, waiver, “acting in concert”, buy-out and squeeze-outs)
- Initial Public Offerings (IPO), privatisations
- Offer of securities to the public
- Private placements
Mergers and Acquisitions
- Acquisitions, sales and business combinations
- Mergers, spin-offs and partial contributions - transfers of assets - activity
- Strategic alliances and establishment of joint ventures
- Going-private transactions
- Group organisation and restructuring
Private equity
- Leveraged Buy Outs (LBO)
- Implementing senior and mezzanine debt
- Issuance of Securities
- Management packages
- Assistance to growth companies
Company law and Corporate governance
- Corporate governance Codes (setting up regulated or consultative committees, preparing internal rules)
- Organisation and follow up of Boards and their committees
- Assistance to companies in the management of their shareholdings
- Company law general assistance: share capital transactions, general meetings, employees’ shareholding, etc
- Organisation and transmission of powers of attorney
Our main sectors of activity
Bird & Bird acts in all the main economic sectors and has developed well-reputed expertise in the following business sectors:
- Automotive
- Aviation - Defence
- Energy and Utilities – CleanTech and Renewables
- Financial Services
- Food and Beverage
- IT - Telecoms - Internet and e-commerce
- Life Science and Health Services
- Media - Communication - Sport
- Real Estate - Public works and construction projects
- Social Innovation
Our teams work in close collaboration with each other and thus benefit from each other’s experience, in particular in the following domains:
- Real Estate
- Dispute Resolution
- Employment
- Public law – Project Finance
- Commercial
- Competition Law
- Financing
- IT - IP
- Tax
Contacts
Arnaud Larrousse
Gildas Louvel
David Malcoiffe
Bertrand Biette (Restructuring)
Laurence Clot (Tax)