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Guilain has extensive experience in M&A, venture capital, and private equity transactions. His practice in Paris is crucial to supporting global clients in building their strategic portfolios in France and across Europe.
Guilain advises sovereign wealth funds, venture capital and private equity funds, industrial clients, and managers in private and public M&A and restructuring.
Experience
Representative matters
Representative matters
Advising ECM Partners on its further investment in portfolio company Famar, and the exit by York Capital Management and investment by Metric Capital Partners
Advising EW Healthcare Partners, a focused healthcare investor, on its acquisition of a majority stake in Laboratoires Majorelle, a leading, full-fledged specialty pharmaceutical company developing and commercializing products focused on women’s health and urology, as well as OTC products
Advising York Capital Management and ECM Partners on a joint acquisition of the southern perimeter of the Famar business - a leading provider of contract manufacturing and development services to the pharmaceutical and health and beauty industry (2020)
Experience
Advising ECM Partners on its further investment in portfolio company Famar, and the exit by York Capital Management and investment by Metric Capital Partners
Advising EW Healthcare Partners, a focused healthcare investor, on its acquisition of a majority stake in Laboratoires Majorelle, a leading, full-fledged specialty pharmaceutical company developing and commercializing products focused on women’s health and urology, as well as OTC products
Advising York Capital Management and ECM Partners on a joint acquisition of the southern perimeter of the Famar business - a leading provider of contract manufacturing and development services to the pharmaceutical and health and beauty industry (2020)
Assisting Aptorum Group, a pharmaceutical company listed on the Nasdaq dedicated to developing and commercializing novel therapeutics in orphan diseases, infectious diseases, metabolic diseases and woman’s health on its initial public offering (IPO) on Euronext (2020)
Advising Tsingshan on an $400M investment with Eramet in a lithium mining project in Argentina
Advising NeoT Capital in raising funds from third party LP's (3i and Mirova) for NeoT Green Mobility (a French subsidiary of NeoT Capital) to establish a €100M fund
Advising the W.P. Carey fund on the acquisition of three Géant Casino hypermarkets valued at €102 million
Assisting Citibank and FIMALAC on £ 125 million financing of North Colonnade for acquisition of the North Colonnade building in London (2019)
Advising Avenue Capital Group and Carval Investors in the structuring of the management package within IKKS Group (2020)
Credentials
Education
Education
- HEC Paris, 2003, MSc, Business
- Université de Paris I Panthéon–Sorbonne, 2003, M.A., Business Law and International tax
- Stanford University, 2009, LL.M.
Professional admissions & qualifications
Professional admissions & qualifications
- Paris
- New York
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