Aubry Lemeret

Aubry Lémeret

Managing Associate, Paris

"My practice focuses on corporate law, mainly advising on private equity and private M&A transactions."

Overview

Professional experience

Education and qualifications

Overview

Aubry is a managing associate in the Corporate/M&A practice at the Paris office.

He’s mainly involved in private and public M&A transactions, private equity, complex group reorganizations and general corporate.

Work highlights:
  • Infragreen V, a fund managed by Rgreen Invest, in relation to its investment in Belenergia S.p.A, an Italian independent power producer developing and operating solar, wind and biomass projects.

  • Kouros, as shareholder of HysetCo, in a new funding round of €200m, with the lead investor, Hy24, becoming its majority shareholder.
  • European Investment Bank and the commercial lenders on the financing of the construction of Verkor's first Gigafactory located in Dunkirk, which will have an initial production capacity of 16 GWh per year and a total amount of 1.3 billion euros.
  • Bureau Veritas on the disposal of 9% of its capital by Wendel and the repurchase of a block of its own shares
  • ACC on one of the largest debt financings ever in Europe in the automobile sector, securing €4.4 billion in loan facilities to finance the development of three EV battery gigafactories in Europe.
  • Meridiam and Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) on the acquisition of APM Terminals Mauritanie (APMTM), by Terminal à Conteneurs de Nouakchott (TCN) from APM Terminals (Maersk group).
  • Enoé, its founding shareholders and management on all aspects of the sale, to iCON Infrastructure, of a controlling stake in their company. The sale resulted from a competitive auction process.
  • Nestlé on the creation of a joint venture for frozen pizza in Europe with PAI Partners.
  • Eiffage on the acquisition of a 13.71% block of Getlink's capital from TCI Fund Management Limited.
  • Stellantis as majority shareholder of Aramis Group in its IPO.
  • EPC SA in the sale of a majority block and takeover bid initiated by E.J Barbier for the shares of EPC SA.
  • Carrefour in the sales of Top Achat to LDLC group and Rue du Commerce to Shopinvest.
  • Conforama in the sale of its French activities to Mobilux (But).

Professional experience

2019 - 2022: Associate, M&A Corporate, Stock-exchange, Governance Villey Girard Grolleaud AARPI (Paris)

Education and qualifications

2018: Specialized Master, International Law and Management, Lyon

2017: MASTER II, Business Law (Mergers and acquisitions specialisation), Lille