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Bertrand
Sénéchal
Partner
Education
New York University School of Law, LL.M. in corporate law, 1994
Université de Paris II-Panthéon-Assas, Maîtrise and Magistère de Juriste d’Affaires - D.E.S.S. - D.J.C.E., 1992 and 1993
Institut d’Etudes Politiques, 1990
Practice
Bertrand Sénéchal is a French partner in the Capital Markets Group and has worked on numerous public offerings by French issuers. He joined the firm’s New York office in 1994 and has been based out of the Paris office since 1996. He has participated in the majority of the privatizations with which the Paris office has been involved since 1996.
Bertrand Sénéchal is cited as a “leading capital markets lawyer” in the Chambers Global – Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, published by Chambers & Partners.
Recent Experience
Capital Markets
- The underwriters in EDF Energies Nouvelles’ capital increase with preferential subscription rights in 2008
- The underwriters in Natixis’s capital increase with preferential subscription rights in 2008
- Natixis in its issuance of Undated Deeply Subordinated Fixed to Floating Rate Notes (TSS/titres super subordonnés)
- The placement banks in the issuance by Groupe Eurotunnel S.A. of subordinated deferred equity securities (SDES) followed by a capital increase by free allocation of warrants
- The French State in its sale of 2.5% of the capital of EDF in 2007
- EuropaCorp, an independent producer and distributor of films, in its initial public offering in 2007
- Innate Pharma, a European biopharmaceutical company, in its initial public offering in 2006
- The underwriters in Natixis’s sales of shares in 2006, following the combination of the corporate and investment banking and financial services activities of Caisses d’Epargne and Banques Populaires under Natixis
- EDF Energies Nouvelles, a French producer of renewable energies, in its initial public offering in 2006
- EDF, the French electricity utility, in its initial public offering in 2005
- Rhodia in its 2005 capital increase
- SNECMA, the French air and space engine manufacturer, in its initial public offering in 2004
- France Télécom, the French telecommunications operator, in its 1997 initial public offering, its 1998 equity and convertible debt offerings, the acquisition of Orange, the UK mobile telephony operator, in 2000, the French aspects of the MobilCom restructuring in 2002-2003 (including the issuance of perpetual bonds redeemable in France Télécom shares), the 2003 capital increase and the 2003 exchange offer for the minority shares of Orange, France Télécom’s mobile telephony services subsidiary. Mr. Sénéchal works on France Télécom matters on an ongoing basis
- Orange in its 2001 initial public offering
- Wanadoo, the Internet services subsidiary of France Télécom, in its 2000 initial public offering
- EULER, the French credit-insurance group, in its 2000 initial public offering and its 2002 rights offering
- Aerospatiale, the French air and space group, now merged into EADS, in its 1999 initial public offering
- Air France, the French national flag carrier, in its 1999 initial public offering. Mr. Sénéchal also represented the underwriters in the 2004 sale of Air France shares by the French State
Other
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Lafarge, the French construction materials group, in its listing on the New York Stock Exchange and corporate governance related matters
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Société Générale in several cross-border leasing transactions for New Jersey Transit
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Rhodia for the 1999 secondary offering by Rhône-Poulenc, in several cross-border leasing transactions
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France Télécom in several cross-border leasing transactions for switching equipment
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RATP, the Paris public transportation agency, in several cross-border leasing transactions for
rolling stock
Bar Admissions/Qualifications
Paris
New York
Languages
French
English
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