Mergers & Acquisitions

Our Corporate practice advises a broad range of private equity players (e.g., entrepreneurs, managers, shareholders and other private investors) in structuring and completing their M&A transactions, whether for their own account or for the account of their corporation in both the private and listed sectors.

Our partners understand how significant these transactions are to their clients and therefore play a primary role in assisting their clients in every step of the transactions in which they are involved.
As efficient negotiators, our partners are strongly committed to their role and in tune with their client’s constraints and commercial objectives.

Our Corporate practice has also extensive experience in internal reorganizations and in coordinating teams of experts across multiple jurisdictions in connection with such transactions.

Private Equity

The Corporate practice has highly recognized experience in Private Equity matters and advises a large number of domestic and global investment funds with investments (whether or not leveraged) in both the private and listed sectors.

Our practice also assists corporation which have been the subject of previous LBO transactions in all their capital expenditure projects.

Moreover, our Corporate team of experts regularly advises investment funds in relation to their divestitures.

Managers and other corporate executives

STCPARTNERS enjoys a market leading reputation in advising managers from both the private and listed sectors and is a key player in the structuring and negotiating management and compensation packages.

STCPARTNERS’ practice also focuses on the key issues regarding the tax optimization of managers’ compensation at both domestic and international levels.

In that respect, teamwork is paramount since such issues entail joint work with the Patrimonial/Family Business’ and the Employment’s practices.

Investment structures

STCPARTNERS assists a large number of market players in the structuring and implementing of investment structures, whether through the use holding vehicles incorporated in France or abroad or investment funds including in particular, private equity funds.

The Corporate practice also assists consulting firms and management companies in choosing their investment vehicles, profit-sharing schemes and relationships with investors and/or sponsor(s).

Financial restructuring and companies’ difficulties prevention

STCPARTNERS assists managers and private equity funds, borrowers together with their key shareholders, in all phases of pre-bankruptcy and bankruptcy financial restructurings.

In addition, our practice is primarily involved in pre-insolvency difficulties (e.g., ad hoc mandate and conciliation proceedings) in the context of debt renegotiation.