News Mergers & Acquisitions - Corporate law

Advising CROUZET group, a specialist in automated systems, in the acquisition of GAROS’s sensors, electronics and instrumentation activities. CROUZET is the leader in France in the conception and manufacture of made to measure sensors. By measuring the forces on the materials, GAROS’s sensors have a role in controlling automated systems and...

DELSOL Avocats advised family office Delore & Associés during the restructuring of the capital of Foncière Châteaux CNB, in which it is the sole shareholder. Foncière Châteaux CNB operates real estate assets acquired on a sale and leaseback basis. A team from DELSOL Avocats consisting of partner Emmanuel KAEPPELIN and associate Gibril DOUIBI...

DELSOL Avocats advised private hospital group INICEA on its acquisition of the Val-Josselin psychiatric clinic in Saint-Brieuc. The acquisition gives INICEA its first foothold in Brittany’s Côtes d’Armor department. Partner Emmanuel KAEPPELIN and associate Caroline DA LAGE made up the team advising on the...

DELSOL Avocats advised innovative recruitment solutions provider Jobijoba on its acquisition of Jai, a startup that has developed a robot to refine the processing of jobseekers’ applications. Jai is Jobijoba’s first acquisition since it was itself bought out by HelloWork in July 2018. Partner Henri-Louis DELSOL and associate Ghislain GROTTI...

DELSOL Avocats advised the EDH group and its shareholder, Quilvest Private Equity, on financing its acquisition of the BRASSART group. EDH was also assisted by merchant bank Eurvad Finance. The DELSOL Avocats team included partner Henri-Louis DELSOL, counsel Séverine BRAVARD and associate Leslie...

K-SANTE, a specialist in the distribution of slimming meals delivered to the home and personalized nutritional support, completed its first LBO with the FrenchFood Capital entrepreneur fund. The operation made it possible to restructure the capital of the K-SANTE group around its director and founder Vincent Guillet and the FrenchFood...

DELSOL Avocats assisted the assignor, Frédérique GIRARD-ORY in her capacity as founding partner, in the context of the assignment of Dermscan Laboratory to Eurofins. Dermscan provides skin tests and clinical studies and employs more than 150 people in France, Poland, Thailand, Tunisia and Mauritius. Eurofins, a laboratory created in 1987 in...

DELSOL Avocats advised Réalités and its subsidiary Heurus on partnering with UK investment fund InfraRed Capital Partners to develop serviced retirement properties, a partnership representing an investment of some €250 million. Founded in 2003, Réalités is a real estate and regional development group whose core business is real estate contracting...

DELSOL Avocats advised Quilvest Private Equity and the EDH group on the acquisition of the ARIES group. EDH, the private higher education group owned by Quilvest Private Equity since 2017, is now embarking on its external growth policy with the acquisition of the ARIES group. ARIES is a private higher education group specializing in training...

DELSOL Avocats advised eFounders on its sale of Mention to Sweden’s Mynewsdesk. eFounders, Europe’s premier SaaS startup studio, is a standard-setter in the creation of B2B startups. Mention publishes a real-time web and social monitoring tool. Since its founding in 2012, Mention has enjoyed sustained growth, attracting 10,000 new users every...

DELSOL Avocats advised the ALTIFORT group on its acquisition of two companies, Gaz Liquéfiés Industrie (GLI) and ITC. Founded in 2014 by two entrepreneurs, Stanislas Vigier (CEO) and Bart Gruyaert (Managing Director), ALTIFORT is an international group operating in Germany, Belgium, France and Ukraine specializing in fluids (Altifluid),...

DELSOL Avocats advised the EDF group in its move into Africa’s off-grid market by acquiring a stake in Kenyan firm SunCulture. SunCulture designs and sells solar pumps and irrigation systems. Its flagship product, the Rain Maker, is a connected solar pump solution designed for smallholdings with no access to the power grid, offering them an...

DELSOL Avocats advised the ALTIFORT group on its acquisition of Wendt Boart SPRL (Belgium), a subsidiary of the 3M Group specializing in the manufacture of cutting tools for the glass industry. Founded in 2014 by two entrepreneurs, Stanislas Vigier (CEO) and Bart Gruyaert (Managing Director), ALTIFORT is an international group operating in...

Henri-Louis DELSOL, Partner, and Anne-Sophie HARTOG and Martin SOUYRI, associates within the « Corporate - Mergers & Acquisitions » department, advised the founding partner of IDOSENS, a start-up in the IoT business, on the sale of IDOSENS to the German group Wika, the global market leader in pressure, temperature and level measurement...

Pierre GOUGÉ, partner, and Benoît PARDIGON, associate, assisted eFounders, first European startup studio, in the sale of TextMaster to Technicis. TextMaster is a professional translation platform. Technicis is a European leader in the translation sector.

Philippe MALIKIAN joins the Corporate – Mergers & Acquisitions department of DELSOL Avocats as a partner. With more than 20 associates, including 6 partners and 3 Of Counsels, the “Corporate – Mergers & Acquisitions” department supports, advises and defends companies at every stage of their development and benefits from recognized...

13 March 2018 - Henri-Louis DELSOL, M&A Partner, and Vincent GUEVENOUX, lawyer, advised PROACTIS in the launching of a tender offer over the shares of HUBWOO, listed on Euronext Paris. This tender offer results from the acquisition by PROACTIS, listed on the AIM market in London, of the american group PERFECT COMMERCE. Following the...

Pierre GOUGÉ, partner, and Benoît PARDIGON, associate assisted eFounders, first European startup studio, in the context of its equity investment in Spendesk’s share capital pursuant to a 8 M€ fundraising.Spendesk is a fintech specialized in complex corporate payment...

Pierre GOUGÉ, partner, and Benoît PARDIGON, associate, assisted AGC Glass Europe, the Belgian subsidiary of the Japanese group AGC, in the purchase of Eclat Digital Recherche (EDR)’s from its founders. EDR designs and develops synthesis image software faking daylight for the purpose of its industrial clients active in various sectors such as...

Pierre GOUGÉ, partner, and Benoît PARDIGON, associate assisted Amvalor, the ENSAM’s cluster aiming at promoting research activities, in the context of its fundraising with the governmental fund Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC). The funds raised will enable Amvalor to assist ENSAM’s laboratories at pre-incubation and incubation...