LinkinLegal
Thomas Meli photo

Thomas Meli

Partner specialising in securities law as well as public and private M&A transactions. He advises leading industrial groups and institutional investors on complex cross-border transactions, and major investment funds on a large number of transactions, including LBOs, takeover offers, and PtoPs. Thomas Méli has recently represented Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations on the sale of its stake in Transdev Group to Rethmann France; Merit France on the acquisition of two luxury hotels located in Saint-Tropez (France); Solabia on the acquisition of a majority stake in PolymerExpert; Icade on the sale of its stake in a portfolio of healthcare assets in Italy to BNP Paribas REIM and the sale of its stake in Icade Santé to Primonial REIM; ENGIE on the sale of ENGIE Home Services to Latour Capital, the sale of Equans to Bouygues and the sale of its stake in Suez to Veolia; Thales on the sale of its Ground Transportation Systems (GTS) to Hitachi Rail; OpenGate Capital on the sale of Bois & Matériaux to Chausson Group, the sale of Axter to IKO Group (Canada), the sale of Skydôme to the Kingspan Group (Ireland), and the acquisition of Umicore’s zinc chemicals business; KKR & Co. Inc. on the 100 million dollar Series C funding round of Ornikar; Goldman Sachs PE on the 70 million dollar Series C funding round of LumApps; and Safran on its public offer for Zodiac Aerospace. · BDGS Associés

FranceCorporate / M&A, SecuritiesFrench, English

About

Partner at BDGS Associés specialising in securities law and public and private M&A; advises industrial groups, institutional investors and major investment funds on complex cross-border transactions including LBOs, takeover offers and PtoPs.

Practice areas

Corporate / M&ASecuritiesPrivate Equity

Office

Expertise

Cross-border transactionsLBOs (leveraged buyouts)Takeover offersPublic-to-private transactions (PtoPs)HealthcareEnergy & UtilitiesAerospaceReal Estate (hospitality)Chemicals

Education

  • Master’s degree in Commercial Law, Cergy-Pontoise University (2002)
  • ESSEC Business School (2000)

Admissions

  • Paris Bar (2004)

Languages

FrenchEnglish