DELSOL Avocats advised idiCo on the LBO of Slat, a designer of safety power supply systems The management company acquired a majority stake. Garibaldi Participations takes a minority stake alongside the management team. In the context of this transaction, DELSOL Avocats advised idiCo with a multi-disciplinary team including : Emmanuel...
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Emmanuel KAEPPELIN
Practice areas
Mergers & Acquisitions - Corporate lawSectors
Energy, Health, ICT, Industries, Leisure
Emmanuel KAEPPELIN is co-head of the "Mergers & Acquisitions - Corporate law" department and Co-Managing Partner of the firm alongside Henri-Louis DELSOL.
Alongside standard services in corporate law (repeat advisory work and company management), he has developed more specific expertise in the following areas :
- company transfers and acquisition audits (acquisitions on behalf of French or international groups)
- equity financing and company restructuring (LBOs, MBOs, fundraising, mergers, demergers, partial asset transfers, agreements between partners, etc.)
- advisory work to foreign groups in France (incorporation, tax structure, joint ventures, etc.)
- drafting of commercial contracts (distribution, sales agents, subcontracting, manufacturing contracts, T&Cs, financing contracts, franchises, IT contracts, etc.)
- financing infrastructures (hotel infrastructures, solar power plants, industries, etc.)
- business concentrations (notification of acquisitions to the French or European competition authorities).
He has developed specific expertise in the manufacturing, health, new energies (wind, solar, hydroelectricity, etc.), real estate (structure of property transactions) and leisure sectors (hotel and tour operator management).
He is fluent in legal English.
Emmanuel KAEPPELIN graduated from Jean MOULIN III University. He has a DESS postgraduate qualification in Business Law and Taxation and a DJCE postgraduate qualification in Business Law ; he also has a specialist qualification in Corporate Law.
He began his career in the Corporate Finance – Mergers & Acquisitions Department of the law firm REED SMITH in PHILADELPHIA in 1999.
He then practiced in Lyon as an associate lawyer in various law firms before joining the Lyon office of DELSOL Avocats, where he was promoted to of counsel.
For over three years, he was the Secretary-General and Legal Director of a Danish leisure group, where he managed financial affairs, business development and property matters.
Emmanuel KAEPPELIN is a member of the DELSOL Avocats Board and the TRANS-EUROPEAN LAW FIRMS ALLIANCE (TELFA).
He has been recognized by Best Lawyers since 2020 in “Mergers and Acquisitions Law”, “Corporate Law” and “Legeraged buyouts” (Best Lawyers, in partnership with Les Echos).
News
- 2024-12-06
- Emmanuel KAEPPELIN, Frédéric SUBRA, Delphine BRETAGNOLLE, Séverine BRAVARD, Caroline DA LAGE, Jessica NEUFVILLE, Fanny BORDAIS, Arthur COLLET, Cyprien DELORME
- Mergers & Acquisitions - Corporate law, Employment law - Social welfare law, Corporate taxation, Financing
- 2024-11-27
- Emmanuel KAEPPELIN, Séverine BRAVARD, Jean-François DEFUDES, Mayeul FOURNIER de SAINT JEAN, Arthur COLLET, Crystal DECAUDIN, Cyprien DELORME,
- Mergers & Acquisitions - Corporate law, Corporate taxation, Financing
DELSOL Avocats advised Albarest Partners on the buy-out of Optym-Ha, a French SME specialising in the cleaning of particle filters. The management company took control of three quarters of the target’s capital, while the founder partner, who was so far sole shareholder, retained a 25% stake. The transaction was structured by a senior debt taken...
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- Emmanuel KAEPPELIN, Delphine BRETAGNOLLE, Séverine BRAVARD, Jean-François DEFUDES, Caroline DA LAGE, Jessica NEUFVILLE, Fanny BORDAIS, Arthur COLLET, Jean LECLERCQ, Céline COELHO,
DELSOL Avocats advised Cap Vert, an Ambienta (European environmental sustainability investor) portfolio company, on the acquisition of N2B Arrosage. Cap Vert is active in the pruning, landscaping and maintenance of green spaces, and has thus expanded its third business division : water. In the context of this transaction, DELSOL Avocats...
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