Hubert Segain

Hubert is co-head of Corporate in Paris.

Hubert has more than 25 years of experience and specialises in private and public M&A, joint ventures, stock exchange law, capital market transactions, corporate governance and group reorganisations. He acts for French and international clients on a range of domestic and cross border matters across a wide range of sectors.

Hubert currently sits on the AMF's Consultative Commission on Financial Transactions and Information of Issuers.

Ranked in the “Top 40 CAC 40 lawyers” (“Top 40 des avocats du CAC 40”) by the Forbes magazine (since 2021). “Very good strategist, excellent advice, he has a real talent for addressing the right messages, analyses, and recommendations to top management.”

Chambers Global and Chambers Europe – Corporate/M&A (2024). "Hubert Segain is vastly experienced, very easy to get along with and very insightful. He combines a wealth of transactional experience and commercial nuance and intelligence."

Legal 500 EMEA – M&A (“Leading Individual”) (2023). "He is very much acquainted with our business stakes and environment that make his input very much valuable, he generates trust from our teams, and re-assurance due to his high level of expertise and creativity to find solutions…when complex issues arise." Also ranked by IFLR1000, Acritas Stars, Best Lawyers and Who’s Who Legal (WWL).

Work highlights

His recent experience includes*:

Private M&A

• Danone: advising on the sale of Michel et Augustin to Ferrero. Michel et Augustin is a leading French company that designs and markets a range of biscuits, dairy products, desserts and beverages.

• British American Tobacco: advising on the sale of several of its cigarette brands in West Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger and Togo), to Adinkra group.

• Capgemini: advising on its cross-border acquisition of cloud and digital transformation specialist BTC Corporation in Japan.

Public M&A

• OneWeb, a low earth orbit (LEO) broadband satellite communications company, backed by the Bharti group, the UK Government, SoftBank and Hanwha Systems: advising on its combination with Eutelsat Communications, a listed French satellite and telecommunications company.
• Several shareholders of Suez: advising on the proposed takeover of Suez by Veolia.
• Altran Technologies: advising on the €4.8 billion takeover offer launched by Capgemini.
• April: advising on the €900 million takeover offer launched by CVC Capital Partners.

Corporate governance

• Hubert specialises in corporate governance related matters. He advises several CAC 40 and SBF 120 companies in relation to their governance related matters such as compensation of executive officers and board members (remuneration and incentive plans), board of directors and committees (including board and committee composition and processes, board evaluation, succession and removal processes and policies and management and prevention of conflicts of interest), preparation of internal corporate governance codes of good conduct, registration documents, reports of the board, resolutions to be submitted to shareholders' meetings. He also advises on shareholder activism situations (pre-emptive actions and crisis management) and market abuse rules (preventive measures and AMF prosecution).

* Including transactions done prior to joining Linklaters

Hubert holds a post graduate degree in private law from the Université Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne, a post graduate degree in business law from the Université Paris II – Panthéon Assas, and a Master of Laws from Yale Law School.

He is registered with the Paris and New York State bars.