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About the Office

Davis Polk’s lawyers in Paris advise leading companies in France and throughout Europe on a wide range of global corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and litigation matters. The group also has extensive experience advising U.S. clients undertaking transactions in France, as well as investment banks in deals involving French companies. Since establishing an office in Paris in 1962, the firm has developed relationships with the French government and with many French financial institutions and companies.

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Recognition

  • All of our Paris-based partners are listed as leading French lawyers by Chambers Global (2009) across such practices areas as mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and dispute resolution: "Clients assert: 'They're our first choice for US law issues because they've completely mastered the area.'"

Recent Matters

  • We are advising AREVA, a provider of technological solutions for nuclear power generation, transmission and distribution, in connection with the sale of its Transmission and Distribution division (AREVA T&D) to Alstom and Schneider Electric. The enterprise value of the transaction is €4.09 billion.
  • Advice to Thomson, a French provider of solutions for the creation, management, delivery and access of video for the communication, media and entertainment industries, in its effort to improve its balance sheet and implement its strategic framework.
  • Advice to Areva, the French world leader in the nuclear industry, in connection with the setting-up of a partnership with Suez and Kansai, a Japanese utility, with respect to SET, the subsidiary within the Areva Group which is to operate the new uranium enrichment plant which is being built in the South of France.
  • $4.5 billion notes issuance offered pursuant to Regulation S and Rule 144A by Dexia Credit Local, a Dexia Group subsidiary specializing in public and project finance.
  • $4 billion concurrent SEC-registered offerings of equity and senior convertible notes by ArcelorMittal, a French leader in all major global steel markets.

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