De Pardieu Brocas Maffei, a French independent business law firm, is pursuing its development strategy and consolidates its leading position on the market with the appointment of the following lawyers as Partner: :
With these promotions, the firm strengthens the teams of three of its practices areas, and is now comprising 5 Partners within its Real Estate & Real Estate Finance team, 7 Partners within its Banking & Finance team and 10 Partners within its Corporate-M&A team.
At the same time, the firm promotes 5 of its associates as Counsels:
“We are delighted with these promotions. They are part of the firm’s strategy which, from its inception, is aimed at creating a leading independent French firm with an international calling. These promotions serve our wish to pursue our development and confirm our confidence in the future of the firm,” comments Emmanuel Fatôme, Managing Partner of De Pardieu Brocas Maffei.
With 140 lawyers – including 36 Partners and 12 Counsels – these appointments mark De Pardieu Brocas Maffei’s intention to pursue its development and to provide its clients with a wide range of services. On the eve of celebrating its 25th anniversary, the firm is more than ever forward-looking/ looking towards the future.
About the new Partners:
Katia Belhiteche intervenes in structured finance, especially in real estate financing, corporate and syndicated financing.
Admitted to the Paris Bar since 2007, Katia Belhiteche holds a postgraduate degree (DESS) of Business Law from the University Paris Dauphine (2005) and a professional Master’s Degree 2 in Banking & Financing Law from the University Paris I Panthéon – Sorbonne (2006).
Before joining De Pardieu Brocas Maffei in 2013 as associate, she started her career at the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Paris).
Her promotion contributes to reinforce the “Real Estate Finance and Real Estate Transactions” team, known as a leader team especially in terms of real estate financing.
Pierre Gebarowski, Partner, comments “Katia has been contributing for several years to the firm’s outreach and excellent positioning in terms of real estate finance. It was thus natural to promote her as Partner and it illustrates our wish to collectively pursue the development of this expertise both for the lenders and for the investors.”
With the promotion of Katia, the “Real Estate Transactions and Real Estate Finance” team now comprises 26 lawyers, including 5 Partners and 2 counsels.
Sébastien Boullier de Branche specializes in banking and financial law, particularly in acquisition finance and syndicated and structured finance transactions.
Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2004, he holds a LL.M in Corporate and Commercial Law from King’s College (London) and an advanced degree (DESS-DJCE) in tax and business law from the University of Poitiers (2002).
Since his registration to the Paris Bar, Sebastien has been working in the “Banking and Finance” team of the firm, directed by Christophe Gaillard and Olivier Hubert.
Christophe Gaillard, Partner in charge of the “Banking and Finance” team, says “The promotion of Sébastien as Partner contributes to reinforcing the capacity of the Banking and Finance team in terms of financings, and confirms its position as leading player in this practice area. =His promotion further enables us to meet the various demands of our clients (acting both on the lender and the borrower side), especially in areas such as corporate finance and restructuring.”
With the promotion of Sébastien, the “Banking and Finance” team of the firm now comprises 22 lawyers, including 7 partners and 1 counsel.
Delphine Vidalenc mainly specializes in securities law matters and in mergers and acquisitions. She advises French and foreign companies and investment funds in the context of tender offers, mergers, investments, and equity capital markets transactions (IPOs and securities issuance), as well as governance issues concerning listed companies.
Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2004, she holds a Master Degree in law and international management from HEC (2003), an Advanced Degree (DEA) in Common Law (2001) and a Master Degree (Maîtrise) in private law (1999) from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas.
She joined De Pardieu Brocas Maffei in 2009 after working as an associate in French and international law firms.
Emmanuel Fatôme, the firm’s managing partner says, “The promotion of Delphine as Partner, relying on her strong stock exchange expertise, allows us to reinforce our ability to assist our clients in the context of stock market transactions, and confirms our firm’s capacity to integrate its associates and counsels with the association.
With the promotion of Delphine, the “Corporate-M&A” team of De Pardieu Brocas Maffei now comprises 37 lawyers, including 10 Partners and 2 counsels.
About the new Counsels:
Grégoire Balland intervenes in mergers and acquisitions and stock exchange law. He mainly advises listed and non-listed companies in the finance industry, industrial groups and investment funds within the framework of transactions in France and abroad.
Member of the New York Bar (2009) and of the Paris Bar (2010), he holds an LL.M. degree from Cornell Law School (2008) and a Master’s degree in financial law from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2007).
He joined De Pardieu Brocas Maffei in 2008.
Sonia Bouaffassa specializes in tax law and more specifically in the tax structuring of M&A transactions, LBOs and restructurings. She also assists French and foreign companies with respect to the tax aspects of their external growth, refinancing and restructuring transactions (mergers, assets contributions, split-ups…).
Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2008, she holds a Master degree (DESS) – DJCE) in Business law and Taxation from the University of Nancy II (2005).
Before joining De Pardieu Brocas Maffei in 2017, she worked at Ashurst (Paris).
Nicolas Bricaire specializes in real estate investment and real estate finance.
Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2008, he graduated from ESCP-EAP (2006) and holds a Master degree in business law from the University of Paris XI Sceaux (2005).
He joined De Pardieu Brocas Maffei in 2008.
Laetitia Gavoty Tolot intervenes in French and European competition law, including in particular merger control procedures, antitrust litigation, State aid and distribution matters (negotiations between producers and distributors).
Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2008, Laetitia graduated from ESCP-EAP (2007) and holds a Master II degree in Business Law from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2007) and a Master I degree in Business Law from the University of Paris X Nanterre.
Before joining De Pardieu Brocas Maffei in 2010 as Associate, she started her career at the law firm Bredin Prat.
Simon Le Wita intervenes in commercial, banking and financial litigation and in debt restructuring insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings, particularly within the framework of international transactions.
He advises French and foreign credit institutions and investment funds as well as insurers, property companies, lease-finance and factoring institutions, suppliers, etc.
Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2007, Simon Le Wita graduated from the ESSEC (2007) and holds an advanced degree (DEA) in business law and economics from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2004).
Before joining De Pardieu Brocas Maffei in 2007 as associate, he started his career at Calyon Americas in New York.