Paris
Advises on mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions across all sectors, nationally and internationally
Works with leading private equity funds on their transactions
Counsels entrepreneurs and corporate groups on strategic challenges, including external growth and M&A
Supports founders and investors in venture capital and private equity operations, with experience in scale-up companies (digital, technology, artificial intelligence, and medtech)
Fabrice Piollet advises on mergers and acquisitions with a particular emphasis on leveraged buyouts, growth equity transactions and other complex private equity transactions (carve-out, continuation vehicle,…).
He represents private equity institutions, family shareholders and entrepreneurs in domestic and cross-border fund raisings, acquisitions, refinancings, exits and build-ups. He has developed a strong expertise in advising industry leaders in the food & beverage industry and financial services on their cross-border transactions.
Fabrice works alongside entrepreneurs and corporate groups, counseling them on strategic challenges, including external growth and M&A. He has developed particular experience within scale-up companies (digital, technology, artificial intelligence, and medtech) and supports founders and investors in their venture capital and private equity operations.
Before joining McDermott, Fabrice worked as an associate in a major international law firm in Paris, focusing on private equity.
Ranked in
Chambers France, Up and Coming in Private Equity: Mid-Market
Ranked in
The Best Lawyers in France
- Chambers France, Up and Coming in Private Equity: Mid-Market, 2026
- The Best Lawyers in France, 2023-2026
- Legal 500 EMEA, Recommended, 2021, 2023-2026
- New York University School of Law, LLM
- Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, Master 2, Business Law
- Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, BA
- New York
- Paris
- English
- French
Henri Pieyre de Mandiargues
Paris
Henri Pieyre de Mandiargues focuses on private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate and venture capital transactions.
- Represented a CAC40-listed industrial gas corporation in the structuring of an innovative employee-incentive tool
- Represented a US-based private equity sponsor in the complex reorganization and acquisition of a French-family owned steel business
- Represented acquirers in an all-employees and management-led buyout acquisition of the largest French mail-order retail business
- Best Lawyers in France, Private Equity Law & Venture Capital Law, 2025 & 2026
- The Legal 500 EMEA, Recommended, 2022-2026
- Chambers Europe, France: Private Equity: Buyouts, 2014-2024
- University of Montpellier, LLM (DESS), Business Law
- University of Montpellier
- Paris
- English
- French
Romain Perray
Paris
Romain has extensive experience in data privacy and data protection law, and lectures on these subjects in Master of Law classes at the University of Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne, the University of Paris-II Panthéon-Assas and the University of Paris V Cité.
He advises on the full range of data protection and data security for clients in life sciences, automotive, ad techs, insurance, e-commerce, leisure, social networks and even the public sector, especially in the context of smart cities projects.
- Advised a multinational car manufacturer on its Global GDPR compliance program
- Advised a multi-jurisdictions B2C web platform in the course of investigations by the French Data Protection Authority
- Advised a multinational on the development and implementation of anonymization and pseudonymisation techniques in order to release special categories of data sets
- Advised a multinational on several contractual negotiations raising data capacities issues as data controller (joint or distinct) as well as data processor
- Advised a multinational on several data breaches
- Assisted biotech companies on several contractual negotiations with CROs and IT providers raising data capacities issues as data controller (joint or distinct) as well as data processor
- Advised a national professional association on the role of its members under GDPR and its impact on the sharing of personal data with public authorities
- The Best Lawyers in France, Lawyer of the Year, Privacy & Data Security Law, 2026
- Chambers France, Band 2 in TMT: Data Protection, 2026
- The Best Lawyers in France, 2022-2026
- The Legal 500 EMEA, Leading Individual, France: Data Privacy and Data Protection, 2023-2025
- Lexology Data 100, Recommended, 2026
- Chambers Europe, France: TMT: Data Protection, 2024
- Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, DEA in Public Law
- Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, Maîtrise in Comparative Law
- Institute of Political Sciences of Rennes, Major in Public Service
- University of the Western Cape, South Africa
- LLM Program
- Paris
- English
- French
Anthony Paronneau
Paris
Anthony Paronneau focuses his practice on a broad range of corporate and transactional matters, with a particular focus on the pharmaceutical, medical device, biotech, and healthcare sectors.
He has extensive experience representing life sciences companies, private equity funds, and venture capital firms in complex M&A and private equity transactions, including acquisitions, venture financings, joint ventures, and divestitures.
- Advised a syndicate of Amolyt Pharma’s historical investors on its EUR130 million Series C financing.
- Advised TRiCares, a pioneer in the minimally invasive treatment of tricuspid regurgitation, on its €47 million financing round following the closing of its Series C financing round
- Advised Biocorp Production SA, a French company listed on Euronext Growth which specializes in the design, development and manufacturing of delivery systems and innovative medical devices, including Mallya, a Bluetooth enabled smart add-on device for pen injectors, on its proposed acquisition by Novo Nordisk A/S.
- Advised Sofinnova Partners on the EUR 15 million investment in Cure51, a techbio company seeking to unlock the biological mechanisms responsible for exceptional survivors among cancer patients, led by Sofinnova with participation from Hitachi Ventures GmbH, Life Extension Ventures, Xavier Niel, and Olivier Pomel, CEO, and co-founder of Datadog
- Advised Crédit Mutuel Innovation on the Series C financing of UroMems, an international company developing an innovative, implantable mechatronic technology to treat stress urinary incontinence (SUI).
- The Legal 500 EMEA, Leading Individual in France: Healthcare & Life Sciences, 2022-2026
- Chambers France, Band 2 in Pharma/Life Sciences: Corporate, 2026
- The Best Lawyers in France, Biotechnology & Life Sciences, 2025 & 2026
- Chambers Europe, France: Pharma/Life Sciences: Corporate, 2022-2024
- IFLR1000, Corporate and M&A, 2022-2023
- HEC Paris, Graduate
- Paris-Saclay University, DEA, Private Law
- Paris-Saclay University, Maîtrise, Business Law
- Paris
- English
- French
- Italian
Sabine Naugès
Paris
Sabine Naugès counsels clients on all aspects of public law, including administrative and regulatory, competition and constitutional law. Among other high-profile clients, Sabine has advised telecommunications companies France Télécom and Orange on regulatory matters in cases before administrative and commercial courts, and before EU and French competition authorities. She also regularly represents major companies with interests in a wide range of industries, including aerospace, energy, oil and gas, and public health care, before the French government and in litigation, in a range of regulatory and administrative matters.
- Advised a French multinational telecommunications company on regulatory projects relating to the development and access to the fiber optic network and in connection with the renewal of their mobile license, as well as in connection with several disputes before the European Commission concerning state aid
- Advised one of the largest independent oil companies in Europe in an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (CIRDI) arbitration against the Tunisian government relating to an offshore oil concession and also in an arbitration case against the French government
- The Legal 500 EMEA, Recommended, 2022-2026
- Chambers France, Band 4 in Public Law, 2026
- The Best Lawyers in France, 2025 & 2026
- Chambers Europe, France: Public Law, 2022-2024
- Euromoney, EMEA Women in Business Law, International Trade Lawyer of the Year, 2023
- Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Master’s, Public Law
- Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Master’s Degree (DEA), Public Law
- Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, PhD, Public Law
- American University Washington College of Law, LLM, Law and Government
- New York
- Paris
- English
- French
Anne-France Moreau
Paris
Anne-France Moreau has over a decade of experience counselling clients on corporate and general commercial law, with a particular focus on pharmaceutical, medical device, health care and cosmetics industries. Anne-France assists French and non-French groups in the preparation and negotiation of collaborations, licenses and distribution agreements. She has experience on a number of merger, acquisition and private equity transactions, including divestitures, financing rounds and joint ventures for French and non-French corporations. Further, Anne-France regularly handles digital health matters as well as regulatory issues.
Anne-France worked in a legal department of a French major leading pharmaceutical company, where she gained experience in pharmaceutical operations.
- Advised Egle Therapeutics in a corporate strategic research alliance with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited to uncover novel tumor specific regulatory T-cell Targets and develop unique Anti-Suppressor-Based Immunotherapy
- Advised vaccines pioneers Themis on landmark sale to Merck
- Advised Innate Pharma in its multi-term collaboration with AstraZeneca
- Chambers France, Band 3 in Pharma/Life Sciences: Corporate, 2026
- The Legal 500 EMEA, Recommended, 2019-2026
- Who’s Who Legal: France 2024
- Chambers Europe, France: Pharma/Life Sciences: Corporate, 2024
- The Best Lawyers in France, Healthcare Law, 2025 & 2026
- University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Licence in Private Law
- University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Master’s 1, Business Law
- University of Paris V Descartes, Master’s 2, Business and European Law
- Paris
- French
- English
Charlotte Michellet
Paris
Charlotte Michellet focuses her practice on public, administrative and regulatory law.
Prior to joining the Firm, Charlotte spent almost three years as a jurist in the legal department of the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (French Audiovisual Council) in charge of the regulation of national TV and interned at a prestigious French law firm. She also worked for two years assisting judges at the Conseil d’État, the French Administrative Supreme Court.
- The Legal 500 EMEA, Recommended, 2022-2026
- The Best Lawyers in France, “Ones to Watch” in Administrative & Public Law, 2024-2026
- Sciences Po Paris, Master''s, Master’s 2
- Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Master’s 2, Public Business Law
- Paris
- English
- French
Pierre-Arnoux Mayoly
Paris
Pierre-Arnoux Mayoly focuses on structured finance matters, in particular in the context of leveraged buyout (LBO) transactions, acquisition financing (build-up), funds financing (equity bridge/capital call financing) or debt restructuring. He represents financing providers – senior or subordinated – and sponsors and borrowers. Pierre-Arnoux is head of the Finance Department in Paris.
Prior to joining the Firm, he worked in the Paris offices of leading international law firms.
- The Legal 500 EMEA, Leading Partner in France: Banking and Finance, 2025
- Chambers France, Band 4 in Banking & Finance, 2025
- The Best Lawyers in France, 2021-2026
- Chambers Europe, France: Banking & Finance, 2022-2024
- City University of Hong Kong, LLM, International Business Law
- Law School of Aix-en-Provence University, Master’s, Public Finance and Tax
- Law School of Aix-en-Provence University, Master’s, Business Law and Corporate Taxation (DJCE/DESS)
- Paris
- English
- French
Jilali Maazouz
Paris
Jilali Maazouz advises US, European, Asian, Canadian, Middle Eastern and North African multinational corporations on the labor and employment aspects of their French and transactional commercial and corporate transactions, as well as on their restructuring plans, reductions in force, separation agreements, workplace policies, due diligence investigations, audits, top executives’ compensation and benefits packages and mobility, and employment contracts engineering. Jilali also focuses his practice on commercial disputes and international trade matters. Jilali represents clients in negotiations, alternative-dispute resolution proceedings and litigation, in a range of civil, commercial, criminal and administrative matters.
- Represented Hanes Brands, a US apparel company, on advisory and litigation work relating to employment law matters in connection with its acquisition of DBApparel, the leading intimate apparel and underwear company in Europe, to leverage its innovate-to-elevate strategy and global supply chain (with the realization of full benefits in three to four years, the acquisition would add, on an annual basis, more than $875 million in net sales, approximately $125 million in adjusted operating profit, excluding actions, and approximately $1.00 in adjusted earnings per share (EPS), excluding actions)
- Advised HR Access Investors, a software industry company, on a divestment process in France, Spain and Germany, relating to the acquisition of HR Access by Sopra Group, a French listed company Advised Metsä Group, a Finnish forest industry group, in connection with the restructuring of the paper mil of Metsä Group’s French subsidiary, M-real Alizay
- The Legal 500 EMEA, 2012- 2019
- The Legal 500 Paris, 2012 – 2019
- ACQ Award, Employment & Labor, Employment Law Firm of the Year, France, 2019
- International Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- National Employment Law Council
- Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, LLM, 1993 – 1994, magna cum laude
- Paris
- Madrid
- Arabic
- English
- French
- Spanish
Aroma Sharma
San Francisco
Aroma Sharma focuses her practice on a wide range of corporate and transactional matters, acting predominantly for private and emerging companies. Aroma has advised clients on mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing, corporate and equity restructuring and recapitalizations and joint ventures in various industries, including technology and health and life sciences. She also advises clients regularly on general corporate and corporate governance matters. Aroma also has experience working on cross-border transactions, including business’ international expansion into new territories.
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America, Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2021-2025
- South Asian Bar Association of Northern California, former president
- Asian Pacific American Bar Association, member
- Leading Women in Technology, WILpower™ 2017 Incubator Program, alumnus
- Santa Clara University School of Law, JD, High Technology Certificate
- University of California, Berkeley, BA
- California
- English
- Hindi
- Punjabi
