Corporate M&A

Our Corporate M&A team assists clients with mergers & acquisitions, private equity, management packages, corporate governance, corporate law, crypto-asset transactions and the deployment of innovative projects (start-ups, scale-ups and intrapreneurship).

Our areas of expertise

Mergers & Acquisitions

We assist our clients in their external growth operations, business combinations and relocations, as well as in matters of corporate governance, conflicts between shareholders and the status of directors and officers.

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Private Equity

We advise French and foreign SMEs and middle-sized companies, start-ups, managers, shareholders, family groups and investment funds in all their private equity, development and venture capital transactions.

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Management packages

We are market leaders in the design, discussion and implementation of management packages and profit-sharing plans.

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Strategic alliances

We assist you in negotiating strategic alliances, business combinations and special contracts.

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Legal secretariat & Governance

We assist our clients in setting up companies or economic interest groupings (GIE), setting up subsidiaries of foreign companies in France, branches, representative offices and associations.

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Partners in charge

Guillaume Jarry

Laurent Julienne

Laurent Segal

Our Corporate M&A news

PRESS | Towards a unified European company law: the proposal for a 28th regime

For many years, European companies have faced a major structural challenge: the legal fragmentation of the Single Market, which requires them to navigate 27 different national corporate law systems. On 18 March 2026, the European Commission put forward a proposal aimed at addressing this difficulty: the creation of an optional 28th corporate law regime, common to all Member […]

DEAL | Lerins advises Abenex on the acquisition of Tethys, a French leader in defense and aerospace pyromechanics.

LERINS advised Abenex on the acquisition of Téthys, a specialist in the design and manufacturing of pyromechanical systems for the defense and aerospace sectors. Tethys supplies major defense and aerospace companies such as Naval Group and ArianeGroup, and aims to become the leading independent European player in pyromechanics. This LBO transaction enables a reshaping of […]

PRESS | Marc Gervais interviewed on LexInside about the European 28th regime

Marc Gervais, interviewed by Arnaud Dumourier on LexInside, discusses the proposed 28th regime at European level, aimed at creating a unified legal framework for companies operating within the EU. Faced with the fragmentation of national legal systems, which remains a barrier to business growth, the European Commission is proposing the 28th regime to help foster […]

RANKINGS | M&A – Lerins ranked “Excellent” in the 2025 edition of Décideurs Magazine’s Mergers & Acquisitions Guide

LERINS has been ranked “𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭” (𝐓𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝟏) in the 2025 edition of Décideurs Magazine’s Mergers & Acquisitions Guide, in the category “𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 €𝟕𝟓 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧.” Well-deserved recognition for Luc Castagnet, Marc Gervais, Guillaume Jarry, Laurent Julienne, Laurent Segal and their teams. Our M&A – Private Equity practice advises companies, as well as their executives and shareholders, at […]

DEAL | Lerins advises the shareholders of NEW TONE on their management buy-in transaction

LERINS advised the shareholders of NEW TONE, a French company specializing in the creation of models and prototypes for the cosmetics, luxury goods and architecture sectors, in the context of a Management Buy-In (MBI) transaction. Following the transaction, a majority stake in NEW TONE is now held by a consortium of private investors led by […]

OPTION DROIT ET AFFAIRES | STREAMLINING SME ACQUISITION CONTRACTS REMAINS ELUSIVE

Despite a rebound in deal volume in 2024, small- and mid-cap M&A transactions are still far from running smoothly. In Option Droit & Affaires, partner Laurent Julienne underscores the ongoing legal complexity of such deals: “The prevailing trend of recent years shows no signs of reversing. Amid sustained market uncertainty, the growing intricacy of legal documentation […]