February 19, 2015: De Pardieu Brocas Maffei announces the appointment of 6 Counsels.
De Pardieu Brocas Maffei announces the appointment as Counsel of:
- Sandra Benhaïm, Corporate, M&A, Private Equity
- Sébastien Boullier de Branche, Banking & Finance
- Pauline Bournoville, Restructuring and Dispute Resolution
- Neslihan Gabriel-Denizkurdu, Real Estate
- Alexandre Lecomte, Corporate, M&A, Private Equity
- Delphine Vidalenc, Securities Law, Corporate, M&A
Thierry Brocas, Managing Partner comments “The partners congratulate them on their respective promotions. The announcement of these six appointments reflects the Firm’s confidence in the future by reinforcing its development in strategic areas of business law”.
Sandra Benhaïm, 42 years old, specialises in mergers and acquisitions, and particularly in private equity. She advises investment funds at each step of their LBO, capital development and sale operations
Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2000, Sandra Benhaïm holds a PhD (1999) and an advanced degree (DEA) in business and economic law from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (1996).
She started her career at the Law Firm Barsi Doumith & Associate and previously worked at Nomos (2000-2005) before joining De Pardieu Brocas Maffei in 2006.
Sébastien Boullier de Branche, 38 years old, specialises in financing 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). He joined the firm as an associate in 2004.
Pauline Bournoville, 38 years old, specializes in debt restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings, particularly in the context of international transactions. She also intervenes in commercial, banking and financial litigation cases.
She advises creditors, banks, financial head-lessors and factoring institutions, providers, clients, managers, etc., in relation to disputes opposing them to their commercial partners and to the negotiation and prevention of these disputes.
Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2001, she holds an advanced degree (DESS) in tax and business law from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (1998). Before joining the Restructuring and Insolvency team of the firm in 2008, she previously worked as an associate within the Commercial litigation and bankruptcy proceedings department of Poulain & Associés (2006-2008) and the Commercial advice and litigation department of Moret Vatel & Associés (2003-2006), and the tax department of Arthur Andersen which became Ernst & Young (1999-2003).
Neslihan Gabriel Denizkurdu, 38 years old, specializes in real estate investment transactions (real estate outsourcing, acquisitions and real estate development), real estate management (commercial leases, asset/property management contracts, letting and selling mandates) and construction law. Her practice also includes an important part of litigation.
Admitted to the Paris Bar and to the Bar of Istanbul in 2003, Neslihan Gabriel Denizkurdu holds a master degree (maîtrise) in business law from the University Robert Schuman Strasbourg (2000), as well as an advanced degree (DESS) in international trade from the Management School of Strasbourg (2001). She joined the firm in 2001.
Alexandre Lecomte, 34 years old, specializes in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and restructurings. He mainly advises companies in the finance industry, industrial groups and investment funds within the framework of transactions in France and abroad.
Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2006, he holds an advanced degree (DEA) in private and business law (2004) and a master’s degree in business law (2003) from the University of Paris X and a LLM from the University of California of Los Angeles (UCLA – 2007). He joined the firm as an associate in 2006.
Delphine Vidalenc, 37 years old, specializes in mergers and acquisitions and securities law matters. She advises French and foreign listed and non-listed companies and investment funds on mergers and acquisitions transactions and tender offers. She also acts for issuers and financial institutions on equity offerings such as IPOs and securities issuance.
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 the firm in 2009 after working as an associate at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson in Paris (2005-2009) and Veil Jourde (2004-2005).
