Overview
Gaspard Bastien-Thiry is an associate in the Mergers & Acquisitions practice.
Experience
- BNP Paribas Personal Finance on the sale of BNP Paribas Personal Finance Bulgaria to Eurobank.
- Société Générale on its plan to form a joint venture with AllianceBernstein.
- International Chemical Investors Group (“ICIG”) on the acquisition of MSSA from Japanese chemical company Nippon Soda.
- TRAIL on the sale of Sepur.
- King Street Capital Management on the restructuring and sale of the Ligue 1 Football Club Girondins de Bordeaux by way of an ad hoc mandate and conciliation proceeding.
- GL events in the context of the buyout of one of its founders.
- ALD Automotive on its joint venture with Ford and launch of « Ford Fleet Management ».
- King Street Capital Management in connection with the acquisition of Football Club des Girondins de Bordeaux.
- M&A Deal of the Year – IFLR Europe Awards 2019 - Novartis on its $3.9 billion acquisition of Nasdaq-listed Advanced Accelerator Applications.
- Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL) in connection with its investment in French nuclear fuel cycle company, New Areva Holding (now called Orano), which is part of the €4.5 billion global restructuring of French nuclear energy group Areva.
- M&A Deal of the Year - American Lawyer 2015 – Fonds National d'Investissement (FNI) in its acquisition of a 51% stake in Orascom Telecom Algérie (Djezzy) from the VimpelCom group.
- Ardagh Group S.A. on its acquisition of beverage can manufacturing assets and support locations in Europe, Brazil and the United States from manufacturing giants Ball Corporation and Rexam for $3.42bn.
- Aterian Investment Partners, a US PE fund, in connection with the sale of one of its French portfolio company, BSI France, to a UK purchaser.
- Harmonic in connection with the acquisition of Thomson Video Networks from private equity fund Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners (EdRIP) and management of TVN.
- International Chinese premier hospitality group Jin Jiang (listed in Shanghai and Hong Kong) in connection with the €1.3 billion acquisition from Starwood Capital Group of French holding company Groupe du Louvre which owned approximately 1,200 hotels in 40 countries.
- Ormat Technologies Inc. in connection with the acquisition of Géothermie Bouillante SA.
- Xavier Niel (personal holding companies) in connection with the acquisition of Orange Communications SA (Orange Switzerland) from Apax Partners.
Qualifications
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Education
London School of Economics and Political Science
LL.M., Corporate and Securities Law
Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas
Master 2 Professionnel Droit des Affaires et Fiscalité
Université Toulouse I Capitole
Master 1 Droit des Affaires
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