Hervé Letréguilly is a partner in the Paris Corporate Group.

He has extensive experience in initial public offerings, public tender offers, public and private M&A, global securities offerings (equity, equity-linked, debt including high yield), privatizations and with a focus on financial products. He also advises on corporate governance and financial regulatory matters.

Capital Markets

• BNP Paribas, HSBC, Crédit Agricole, ING, Société Générale and UniCredit as initial purchasers on CMA CGM's €500 million 5.250% senior notes due 2025.
• The Agence des Participations de l’État on the €1.53 billion sale of a 4.5% stake in Engie.
• Nexans in connection with the issuance of a €250 million bond.
• Bolloré on the completion on a five-year 500 million euro bond issue, with an annual coupon of 2.00%.
• The Agence des Participations de l’État on the sale of a 4.1% stake in Engie for 1.14 billion euros.
• IPO and global offerings of equity by French and other European issuers Alstom, Euronext, Labco (IPO reportée), TxCell.
• Private placements, block trades (Airbus Group, Alstom, ENGIE, Medica, Rexel), Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley on Groupe Bruxelles Lambert’s sale of Total’s capital.
• Bonds, convertible bonds and eurobond offerings: Alcatel-Lucent, Arcelor, Ausy, Altran Technologies, Ausy, Bolloré, Bouygues, Business Objects, Havas, France Télécom, Genset, Groupe Eurotunnel, Nexans, Olympique Lyonnais Group, Orange, PSA, Publicis, Rhodia, STMicroelectronics N.V., Technip, Thomson multimedia, Unibail, Vivendi Universal.

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Vivendi on the acquisition of a 60% majority stake of the Bolloré Group in Havas.
• Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (JNFL), in connection with its investment in French nuclear fuel cycle company, New Areva Holding, which is part of the global restructuring of French nuclear energy group Areva.
• Alstom in connection with its public share buyback offer.
• HalioDx Group in connection with the creation of HalioDx Group and buy out of Qiagen Marseille assets by HalioDx Group.
• Joint venture/cooperation agreements in the medical and bio-tech areas.
• Société Générale in the sale of its Greek Subsidiary, Geniki Bank, to Piraeus Bank.
• Tender offers on publicly listed companies, including advising: IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) on its friendly takeover bid for NYSE Euronext; IPSOGEN in connection with QIAGEN’s public tender offer to fully acquire IPSOGEN; the committee of independent directors of Neuf Cegetel in connection with the tender offer of SFR; Business Objects in SAP AG’s friendly tender offer on Business Objects; France Telecom’s public exchange offer and subsequent squeeze-out of minority shareholders of Orange; and Serono’s tender offer of all outstanding shares and certain other securities of Genset.
• Dassault Systèmes in its acquisition of IBM sales and client support operations encompassing DS’s Product Lifecycle Management software application portfolio, as well as customer contracts and related assets.

Awards & Accolades

• He is ranked as a leading lawyer in all leading directories, including Best Lawyers, Who's Who Legal, The Legal 500 EMEA and Chambers Global. Clients tell Chambers Global that: “He is exceedingly knowledgeable and a precious asset to the team.  His technical ability is unrivalled.”
• He has been named Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year 2012” for Capital Markets (France).
• Hervé Letréguilly lectures at Université Panthéon-Assas Paris 2 on capital markets. He is the author of numerous publications on corporate and securities laws (including Règlement général de l’AMF, textes et commentaires, Dalloz, July 2010).
• “Lawyer of the Year” for France in Securities Law – Best Lawyers (2018).
• Equity deal of the year – IPO Euronext (IFLR Awards 2015).

Publications

• “IPO: du bon usage du lock up” - Option Droit et Affaires, November 18, 2015.
• Dossier Droit des sociétés “Gouvernance et Dirigeance: L’art de diriger une entreprise” - January 14, 2016.