Practice
Bertrand Sénéchal is a partner in the Corporate Group, focusing on capital markets (equity and high yield). He has worked on numerous public offerings by French issuers. He joined the firm’s New York office in 1994 and has been based in the Paris office since 1996. He has advised on most of the privatizations and other major capital markets transactions handled in the Paris office since 1996.

Bertrand Sénéchal is ranked as a leading lawyer in all major professional directories, such as The Legal 500 EMEA, IFLR1000 and Chambers Global quoting that “Clients laud Bertrand Sénéchal for his "excellent negotiation technique. He remains calm, focused and solution-driven." As an equity and high-yield specialist, he is frequently involved in the firm's most prestigious deals".

• The FSI (France's sovereign wealth fund) in connection with the initial public offering of DBV Technologies in 2012
• The underwriters in connection with Inside Secure’s initial public offering in Paris in 2012
• The underwriters in connection with Canal+ France’s initial public offering project in Paris in 2011 (postponed)
• Labco in its high yield notes offering in 2011
• The joint lead managers and joint bookrunners in connection with THEOLIA’s capital increase with preferential subscription rights in 2010
• Novagali Pharma, a European biopharmaceutical company, in its initial public offering in 2010 (as deal counsel)
• Rhodia in its high yield notes offerings in 2010
• Innate Pharma (as deal counsel) in its 2009 share capital increase reserved to institutional investors (PIPE)
• Danone in its 2009 capital increase with preferential subscription rights
• The joint lead managers and joint bookrunners in connection with Club Méditerranée’s 2009 capital increase combined with an issuance of ORANEs (bonds redeemable in new or existing shares), with preferential subscription rights
• The underwriters in Pernod Ricard’s 2009 capital increase with preferential subscription rights
• Saint-Gobain in its 2009 capital increase by free allocation of warrants
• The underwriters in EDF Energies Nouvelles’ 2008 capital increase with preferential subscription rights
• The underwriters in Natixis’s 2008 capital increase with preferential subscription rights
• Natixis in its 2008 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 in 2008
• 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 (as deal counsel)
• 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 2006EDF, 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

• Lafarge, the French construction materials group, in its listing on the New York Stock Exchange and corporate governance related matters
• Société Générale in several cross-border leasing transactions for New Jersey Transit
• Rhodia for the 1999 secondary offering by Rhône-Poulenc, in several cross-border leasing transactions
• France Télécom in several cross-border leasing transactions for switching equipment
• RATP, the Paris public transportation agency, in several cross-border leasing transactions for rolling stock