Bruno Derieux

Head of the Corporate/M&A practice in Paris, Bruno advises corporates, financial sponsors and banks on a wide range of complex, cross-border corporate transactions, including public and private M&A, private equity law.

Work highlights

Bruno has led on many major corporate deals. A selection of these deals includes advising:

• Vauban Infrastructure Partners on its investment as new reference shareholder in Paprec (French leader in global waste management and energy recovery)
• ARDIAN on the setting up of Hy24 platform, alongside FiveT
• Kouros Investment on various investments in the hydrogen sector (Haffner Energy - which went to IPO, HYPE etc)
• ARDIAN and GIP as white knight on its c. €16bn offer for Suez (listed in Paris) in the context of the takeover battle between Suez and Veolia, and then the consortium which acquired the c. €10bn New Suez
• Vauban Infrastructure Partners on the acquisition alongside MEAG of 50% of Indigo (World leader in car parking and individual mobility)
• ARDIAN Infrastructure: advising on the sale of a €1bn+ portfolio of various infrastructure and energy assets across Europe, including stakes in LISEA (rail) Synerail (telecoms), Alicorne (road) and Kallista Energy (wind), 2i Rete Gas, Trados (highway).
• Axa Private Equity, its senior management, employees and other investors in the spin-off of from AXA Group to become ARDIAN

• Since 2008 Partner, Corporate, Linklaters Paris
• 2000 - 2008 Associate, Corporate, Linklaters Paris
• Jan - May 2000 Associate, Corporate, Linklaters New York
• Oct - Dec 1999 Trainee, Corporate / Capital Markets, Linklaters Paris

Bruno studied business law at Pantheon-Assas and the Institut de Droit des Affaires at Pantheon-Assas University, Paris, and completed a diploma in legal studies at Jesus College, University of Oxford.

He speaks English and French.