CAPITAL MARKET OPERATIONS

Lexelians Avocats lawyers have recognized expertise in capital markets. The team is made up of Laurent Beauvoit, Jonathan Santoro and Romain Guez. We advise listed companies and investment banks on the following transactions:

Initial public offerings (Euronext, Growth, Access)

Securities offerings through public offerings and private placements: capital increases, issues of structured products (e.g. convertible bonds, bonds convertible into new or existing shares, bond redeemable in cash and shares), equity line,

Debt restructuring

Investment in listed companies : threshold crossing and declarations of intent, control issues, other reporting obligations, prevention of market abuse;

Mergers, spin-off, contributions

Friendly or unsolicited tender offers (purchase, exchange, squeeze-out), public shares buy-back offers, delisting, takeover strategies (concerted action), anti-tender offer defense;

Block trades, etc.

Governance: governance charters, best practices, directors' responsibilities.

For the fourth year running, Lexelians Avocats has been ranked as one of the "must-see" firms for small-cap equity and convertible capital markets transactions in the November 2023 ranking published by Décideurs - Leaders League magazine.

Laurent Beauvoit and his team have been involved in over two hundred financial operations, including IPOs (EDF, Horizontal Software, Predilife, Pherecydes Pharma, AMA, Toosla...), capital increases (Société Générale, France Telecom, Veolia Environnement, Rhodia, Eurobio Scientific ...), complex securities issues (convertibles, bond redeemable in cash and shares, bonds convertible into new or existing shares, bonds convertible into shares with attached shares warrants ... by Business Objects, Altran, Publicis, Eurobio Scientific ...), tender offers/exchange public offers/ public shares buy-back offers (Grand Marnier, Business Objects, Infogrames, Aurea, Horizontal Software, Hiolle Industrie ...) and bond issues (Aurea, Infogrames, Rhodia, CMA-CGM ...).

Our team

Laurent Beauvoit

FOUNDING PARTNER

Jonathan Santoro

LAWYER

Romain Guez

LAWYER

Our latest operations

Bebô

Listed on Euronext Access+.

January 2022

Counsel of the issuer

Toosla

IPO on Euronext Growth Paris ( €6.2M )

December 2021
Deal counsel

AMA Corporation

IPO on Euronext Growth
( 36M € )

June 2021
French board of the issuer

Beaconsmind

IPO on Euronext Access+ Paris ( €2.5M )

February 2021
Deal Counsel

Pherecydes Pharma

IPO on Euronext Growth
( 8M € )

February 2021
Deal Counsel

Entech

IPO on Euronext Growth Paris ( €25M )

September 2021
Counsel of shareholder funds

Media Maker

Private placement listing on Euronext Access Paris ( € 2.5M )

July 2019
Corporate and stock market consulting

Predilife

IPO on Euronext Growth
( 2.6M € )

December 2018
Deal counsel

Parx Plastics

Private placement listing on Euronext Access Paris

May 2018
Corporate and stock market advisory

Medialab

Private placement listing on Euronext Access Paris

March 2018
Corporate and stock market advisory

Gour Medical

Private placement listing on Euronext Access Paris

December 2016
Corporate and stock market advisory services

Horizontal Software

IPO on Euronext Growth Paris ( € 6M )

December 2016
Deal counsel

Orclass

Private placement listing on Euronext Access Paris

November 2014
Corporate board

Groupe Concourmania

IPO on Euronext Growth Paris ( € 9.2M )

May 2011
Deal counsel

ST Dupont

Capital increase with preferential subscription rights ( €25M )

February 2024
Corporate and securities law counsel of the Company

AMA

Issuance of shares by public offering ( € 8M )

June 2023
Counsel of the company

Theraclion

Issuance of ABSA by private placement and public offering ( €12.7M )

June 2023
Counsel of the company