News Mergers & Acquisitions - Corporate law

DELSOL Avocats advised DIMOTRANS, a Lyon-based logistics and multimodal transport group, on its acquisition of a majority stake in Bretagne Services Logistiques (BSL). BSL, founded in 1997, is a logistics provider specialising in e-commerce, mainly in the consumer goods sector. The company has a workforce of 300 and generates revenue of €28...

DELSOL Avocats guides LEIBLANG Productions through ELEPHANT’s sale to WEBEDIA. ELEPHANT, an audiovisual production company cofounded by Emmanuel CHAIN and Thierry BIZOT in 1999, has sold 51% of its capital to WEBEDIA, a digital media group. A production company launched in 2011, LEIBLANG Productions partnered the ELEPHANT Group to run the...

DELSOL Avocats advises NEWFUND on HOMELAND’s fundraising. HOMELAND, a digital property management company, raised €2 M from NEWFUND, a French investment fund founded in 2008, and from BUSINESS ANGELS. HOMELAND currently manages 2,500 co-owners of 140 condominiums in Paris and the near suburbs. The fundraising will enable it to develop its...

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 is assisting Gimv on the takeover of La Comtoise, a supplier of cheese-based solutions for the food industry. Gimv will support La Comtoise in developing new products and in accelerating the firm’s globalisation. As part of this transaction, Partner Emmanuel KAEPPELIN, and Séverine BRAVARD, Of Counsel in the Corporate - Mergers...

Founded in 2014 by two entrepreneurs, Stanislas Vigier (CEO) and Bart Gruyaert (General Manager), ALTIFORT is an international industrial group active in Germany, Belgium, France and Ukraine, specialising in fluids (Altifluid division), mechanical engineering (Altimotion division) and construction (Altibuild division). Previously controlled by...

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.