News Mergers & Acquisitions - Corporate law

Before 2024, there was no uniform federal procedure in the United States for reporting beneficial ownership. As we step into 2024, the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) comes into effect, requiring a wide range of businesses to disclose their beneficial ownership details to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a division of the...

AZmed, a publisher of AI-based diagnostic software for radiologists, has raised 15 million Euros in a Series A round including the family office Maison Worms, Techstars and Tempact Ventures. This fundraising will enable the medtech to accelerate its international development and to use its artificial intelligence software to help radiologists...

Greenerwave, European leader in electromagnetic wave control technologies, has raised 15 million Euros in a Series A round including the fund Innovation Défense (managed by Bpifrance), Safran Corporate Ventures, Intelsat, BNP Paribas Développement and Plastic Omnium. This fundraising will enable Greenerwave to increase its workforce, which...

The American group QUAKER HOUGHTON, world leader in industrial process fluids, has acquired IKV TRIBOLOGIE IKVT and its subsidiaries. IKVT specializes in high-performance lubricants and greases that are primarily used in the automotive, aerospace, electronics, and other industrial markets and will be part of the QUAKER HOUGHTON’s EMEA segment....

Share and asset acquisitions can give rise to a series of post-transaction disputes, including claims with regard to alleged breaches in representations and warranties, earn-out provisions, post-closing purchase price adjustments and non-compete provisions. Arbitration is increasingly used to resolve such disputes and arbitration clauses are...

Manudo group, French leader in high-frequency and thermal welding for industry and in the medical field, is continuing its development with a convertible bond issue from Bpifancre and BNP Paribas Développement. Created in 1958, Manudo group employs 400 people and achieves a turnover of nearly 20 million Euros. Bpifrance, a public investment...

DELSOL Avocats advised the GUEYDON family with the acquisition of a majority stake in their company. The GUEYDON family, founders of the toy retailer King Jouet, have returned as majority shareholders after selling control of the company in 2011 to the Italian retailer Toys Center, which has since then been acquired by the Italian group PRG...

A major player in the fields of HR Tech (notably HRIS), the Lyon-based company Fortify offers innovative and efficient solutions to companies (up to 3,000 employees), supported by around a hundred employees in France. Since its inception in 2014, it has registered a 30% growth. In order to accelerate its development in supporting the digital...

DELSOL Avocats advised Origine Partners, an asset management company based in Lyon (France), with the acquisition of a stake in DuRoure, an agricultural fertiliser mixer. Origine Partners has become the majority shareholder, alongside Bpifrance and CELDA Capital Développement, with the first investment of its Origine PME 1 fund. This...

DELSOL Avocats advised Apave, a group specialising in the management of technical, human, environmental and digital risks, with the acquisition of Tecnatom France from Tecnatom SA. Tecnatom France is the French subsidiary of Tecnatom SA, itself controlled by the American group Westinghouse Electric Company. Specialising in ultrasonic...

SEGEPO, a company specialising in the manufacture of mechanical parts, is reorganising its capital around its management, which has become the majority shareholder. Arkéa Capital and Bpifrance have become minority shareholders. In 2015, the French manufacturer sold 60% of its capital to Dentressangle, which took the opportunity of this new...

DELSOL Avocats is proud to have assisted the founders of Kyutai, a not-for-profit open science artificial intelligence research laboratory. Co-founded by CMA CGM, Groupe iliad and Schmidt Futures, Kyutai will publish all its research work free of charge. The laboratory’s co-founders aim for Kyutai to be a genuine hub for the French and...

DELSOL Avocats advised the energy broker for professionals, Opera Energie, on an OBO. Opera Energie is preparing for international expansion and the diversification of its offering with the arrival of two investors : the Luxembourg investment company Oraxys and Bpifrance. The three founders, Jean-Sébastien Degouve, Nicolas Chevallier and...

DELSOL Avocats advised Pi Labs, a UK venture capital firm, in the context of Stockoss’ fundraising, a provider of real-time inventory and flow management software solutions. This €4 million round of financing was led by Pi Labs, alongside Global Brain, 50Partners, Hartwood, FrenchFounders and Kima Ventures. This fundraising will enable...

For its 50th anniversary, DELSOL Avocats opens an office at 480, avenue Louise, marking a new step in the firm’s development. DELSOL Avocats assists clients daily with their international issues, whether they are French and developing projects abroad, or international with operations in Europe. The Firm was therefore keen to expand into...

Heliup, a Savoie-based start-up pioneering lightweight photovoltaic panels, has raised €10 million to transform the large roofs of existing buildings into a source of clean energy. The round of financing was led by Starquest Capital, a VC fund dedicated to investing in companies working to protect the climate and our resources,along with BNP...

E-RECYCLE, a player in the circular economy, recycles electronic products (mainly smartphones, PCs, tablets and consoles), with the aim of reducing programmed obsolescence and extending product life. The company has just closed a €1.5 million fund-raising round led by Demeter, via the Fonds d’Amorçage Industriel Métropolitain (FAIM)...

PRESS RELEASE - DELSOL Avocats assisted the US group DataBank (zColo) in the context of the acquisition by Etix Everywhere of five of its data centers located in and operated from France by zColo France SAS (one in Paris, one in Montpellier and one in Toulouse) with a maximum capacity of 5,4 MW. Initially DataBank had bought these assets in...

DELSOL Avocats advised CDC (Banque des Territoires) on the joint creation with the digital technology operator Hub One of a platform for sharing, exploiting and enhancing airport data, Hub One Datatrust. This joint platform is marketed by a subsidiary of Hub One, which is also called Hub One DataTrust. The Hub One DataTrust offering aims to...

DELSOL Avocats advised Garibaldi Participations, a subsidiary of Banque Populaire Auvergne Rhône Alpes and a premium partner of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, on its acquisition of a stake in the Obiz group through its controlling holding company OBI-ONE. Obiz supports its customers in their relationship marketing and CSR...