News Mergers & Acquisitions - Corporate law

DELSOL Avocats advises the sellers in the framework of the takeover of Colonna by its CEO Since its creation in 1972 Colonna, a broker specializing in group insurance, had been owned by several members of the family of the same name. Xavier COLONNA, CEO from 2008, takes over the brokerage business. DELSOL Avocats advised the sellers with a...

DELSOL Avocats acted as legal advisor to Rhône-Alpes PME Gestion and Sofimac Régions, through a team headed by Emmanuel KAEPPELIN, partner and co-head of the Corporate - Mergers & Acquisitions Department.

DELSOL Avocats assisted private equity firm Aster Capital as part of the fundraising round by startup IT monitoring specialist PacketAI. Aster Capital led the fundraising round alongside BNP Paribas Développement, SGPA and Entrepreneur First. The round will enable PacketAI to ramp up development of its solution and maintain its R&D...

DELSOL Avocats advised Capitem Partenaires on its transfer of shares to Novencia Group and to Mr. Arnaud Zilliox. Capitem Partenaires was advised by Frédéric SUBRA and Séverine BRAVARD.

DELSOL Avocats advised the management of Ribiere on its buyout of the company from its sole shareholder and CEO since 2004, Mr. Daniel LOUISE. A team of four managers, headed by Joseph CHANLIAUD, who arrived as General Manager a year ago, took over the firm, which specialises in public service infrastructure and private civil engineering...

French media group TELEGRAMME has strengthened its partnership with the company Autour du Mont Blanc, organizer of the UTMB (Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc), via its subsidiary OC Sport (Route du Rhum, The Transat, Geneva and Nice–Cannes Marathon, Hautes Routes cycling events). The group first partnered Autour du Mont-Blanc in 2016 amidst the...

DELSOL Avocats has advised Assystem, an international engineering group listed on Euronext Paris, on acquiring 100% of the capital of the French company ASCO from its three founders. ASCO, a recognized player in project management and information systems, generates over €20 M in annual revenue and has 300 employees. The acquisition is...

15 May-2019 – HELLOWORK, a group specializing in online recruitment and training, has taken over DIPLOMEO, a website dedicated to the guidance of young graduates with an annual turnover amounting to €2,6 million. This acquisition allows HELLOWORK to complete its portfolio of human resources sites in order to be present in both the training and...

DELSOL Avocats advised Agora with the acquisition of a majority stake of RTE Multimedia. Agora, a subsidiary of several household appliance groups, is the main European portal for the repair of household electrical appliances. Agora is also a supplier of ERP in after-sales service and consumer CRM. RTE Multimedia is active in the trading of...

DELSOL Avocats is proud to rank in 6 categories of the Legal 500 EMEA 2019 : The Regions - Tier 1 « Originally founded in Lyon, Delsol Avocats is one of France’s most well known regional firms, with a reputation that is well established at national level. Its resources are now almost equally split between its Paris and Lyon offices. The firm...

IVIDATA group, a consultancy specialising in digital and Big Data founded and headed by Ian BRADAC and Etienne ABOULKER, closed its first MBO with investment funds KEENSIGHT CAPITAL and ISAI GESTION. The deal has allowed for IVIDATA to restructure its capital, primarily around the KEENSIGHT CAPITAL and ISAI GESTION funds, which have acquired...

The HESUS group, specialists in the management of supply and evacuation of soils and materials for construction sites, successfully closed a €10 million fundraising round with PARIS FONDS VERT, a fund managed by DEMETER PARTNERS and backed by Paris City Hall, SUEZ VENTURES and CONSTRUCTION VENTURE. The deal, whereby chief executive and...

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...