Squire Patton Boggs continues its strategic expansion of its global Private Equity Practice in Europe with further significant hire in France consisting of two partners.
Private equity lawyer Anthony Guillaume has been appointed a Corporate partner and acquisition leverage finance lawyer Benjamin Marché has been appointed partner in the Financial Services Practice in the firm’s Paris office. M. Guillaume joins from the Corporate group at DLA Piper, and M. Marché joins from Shearman & Sterling in Paris.
M. Guillaume has extensive experience of private equity transactions, including M&A, and of advising funds, listed and non-listed companies and management teams. He started his career at Paul Hastings in 2011 and spent four years at White & Case before joining DLA Piper in 2018. His has worked with a range of French, other European and US private equity houses on transactions across the mid-market. In addition to French, M. Guillaume speaks fluent English. Admitted as an avocat at the Paris Bar, he also holds a degree in Law from the University of Rennes and an LLM from the University of Exeter.
M. Marché specialises in banking and finance with a particular emphasis on leverage buy-out transactions. He has extensive French domestic and international experience of acquisition leverage financing, acting for both financing providers (senior or subordinated) and sponsors and borrowers. He works closely with PE firms in the French market where his role is to advise funds, as well as borrowers, in the negotiation of the financing structuration of their acquisition. In addition, M. Marché has considerable restructuring transaction expertise having advised both debtors and creditors/funds in restructuring projects, as well as experience in complex infrastructure investment and financing. With a law degree from the University of Rennes, M. Marché started his career at Frieh Bouhenic and has worked at other leading international law firms in Paris.
Squire Patton Boggs’ global Private Equity Practice comprises specialist corporate lawyers, experienced in advising private equity and venture capital investors, investee companies and management teams. The team supports clients throughout the complete private equity and venture capital investment cycle. The Private Equity Practice continues to expand, with nearly 25 PE lawyers added in the past two years, as well as private equity tax specialist Charles Briand in Paris.
