Lawyers in France

Yas Banifatemi

Founding Partner, Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes

Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes

Yaël Cambus

Counsel

CGR Avocats

Yaël Hirsch

DLA Piper

Yaëlle Cohen

Yaëlle Cohen heads BDGS Associes’ Financing practice, which she created in 2021. She advises investment funds, companies, private debt funds and financial institutions on complex bank or bond financing in the context of domestic and cross-border corporate transactions, LBOs and project financing. She also supports companies in difficulty and their shareholders with financial restructuring operations. She has recently led a number of high-profile financing transactions, including the new funding round for ADIT (Agence pour la diffusion de l'information technologique) and has recently represented Merit France on its acquisition of a minority stake in Carrefour; Société MBD (the BIC family holding company) on the financing of its share capital reorganisation; Bouygues Telecom on various transactions to deploy or reorganize its telecommunications infrastructure through joint ventures with Phoenix Tower International, Cellnex and Vauban Infrastructure Partners; WAAT on it first project financing for the deployment of electric vehicle charging stations in residential buildings; HysetCo on the refinancing of its debt relating in particular to the deployment of hydrogen refueling stations for taxi fleets; Icade on the sale of its stake in Icade Santé and the portfolio of assets held by Icade Healthcare Europe to Primonial REIM; and Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) on the creation of “New Suez”, by a consortium composed of Meridiam, Global Infrastructure Partners and Groupe CDC, constituted from the assets acquired from Veolia and Suez in the context of Veolia’s public offer for Suez.

BDGS Associés

Yelena Trifounovitch

Partner

Bredin Prat

Yoan Havard

Partner

Squadra Avocats

Yoann Chemama

Partner, Corporate tax, M&A

Arsene

Yoel Bendavid

Yoel Bendavid is a counsel in Dentons' Paris office. He is a member of the Employment and Labor group. Yoel advises French and foreign companies in all areas of labor law, including individual and collective labor relations, as well as individual and collective litigation. He advises companies in the luxury industries, chemical industries, pharmaceuticals, e-commerce and FinTech startups. Yoel focuses on advising companies on the social aspects of corporate law, in particular with regard to mergers and acquisitions, implementation of restructurings and downsizing for economic reasons, implementation of redundancy procedures for individual reasons, implementation of automatic transfers of employment contracts, information and consultation of employee representative bodies. Yoel is also involved in litigation. He assists and represents companies involved in individual and collective disputes before employment tribunals and appeal courts, notably concerning redundancies for economic reasons, individual dismissals, fraudulent transfers, moral harassment, working time issues, professional elections, discrimination and negotiations with senior executives. He is the author of several articles in his areas of expertise. He holds a specialist certificate in labour law awarded by the French National Bar Council (Conseil National des Barreaux – CNB).

Dentons

Yohann Chevalier

Counsel

Bredin Prat

Youssef Djehane

Partner focusing on matters concerning listed companies, including listed companies, including takeovers, capital restructurings, equity capital markets transactions, corporate governance matters and shareholder disputes. He has recently represented Société M.B.D., the family controlling shareholder of BIC, on the reorganisation of the family governance and the control structure with respect to BIC; the supervisory board of Europcar Mobility Group on governance issues; Crédit Agricole Assurances (Predica) as reference shareholder on the €1.5 billion refinancing plan adopted by Clariane and the financial restructuring of the Comexposium Group; Diageo on its joint venture with LVMH in Moët Hennessy, its distribution arrangements with Moët Hennessy and its delisting from Euronext Paris; and Qatar Investment Authority as reference shareholder of Lagardère.

BDGS Associés

Yun Ma

Yun Ma is Partner within the Sovereign Advisory practice group and specializes in Project Development and Finance. Yun frequently represents governments, sovereign wealth funds, and state-owned enterprises on complex finance transactions, transformation and litigation. Yun’s expertise is in the structuring, documenting, negotiating and financing of projects and strategic acquisitions, particularly for infrastructure projects related to the energy and natural resources industries in Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Yun has strong global experience, having worked or lived in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Dentons

Yves Ardaillou

Partner - Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity, Equity Investments, Litigation, Arbitration

Aramis

Yves Baratte

Yves heads the Paris Office energy, natural resources and infrastructure team. He advises international corporate clients, funds, financial institutions and governments on complex power, water, natural resources (mining and oil & gas) and infrastructure projects internationally, with a particular focus on France and North and Sub-Saharan Africa. Yves is one of the co-heads of Simmons & Simmons’ African initiative. He regularly speaks at energy and natural resources conferences in France and internationally.

Simmons & Simmons

Yves Lepage

Partner

Orrick

Yves Merle

Partner | Attorney registered with the Lyon Bar Association

Chassany Watrelot & Associés (CWA)

Yves Mondellini

Yves Mondellini joined the Corporate Law / Mergers & Acquisitions department of UGGC Avocats in 2005 and became partner in 2016. His practice is dedicated to assisting industrial and commercial players in the sale and acquisition of companies or assets, the creation of joint ventures, restructuring and, more generally, in their corporate law matters. Yves also assists investment funds or managers in venture capital, development capital or LBO transactions. A significant part of his practice is oriented towards international transactions.

UGGC Avocats

Yves Rutschmann

Partner

Bredin Prat

Yves Wehrli

Yves Wehrli's practice includes general corporate and commercial matters; mergers and acquisitions, sports & media. Yves also specialises in media and sports law. He is the author of a number of published articles and conference papers on various subjects relating to corporate law, computer law, telecommunications law and sports law.

Clifford Chance

Yvon Dréano

Partner - Corporate M&A, Private equity, Corporate litigation,

Jeantet

Zeynep Sakallioglu

Zeynep's practice is cross-disciplinary and varied. ​ She assists with international arbitration, white-collar crime, commercial and corporate governance disputes, and enforcement proceedings.​ She draws on sector experience in energy, luxury goods and aeronautics.​ Prior to joining our firm, Zeynep practised business litigation at several law firms in Istanbul and Paris.​ A graduate of the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Université Paris-Saclay, she has a strong academic background in business law.​ She also holds an LL.M. in Anglo-American business law from Université Paris V-Descartes.

TALMA Dispute Resolution

Zineb Gaouane

Partner

LPA Law

jean-Christophe Beaury

Partner

Racine

Ève Duminy

Partner

Bredin Prat

Étienne Bimbeau

Associate

Dechert LLP