David-James Sebag is a Partner in Gide's Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions team and divides his time between the New York and Paris offices. His practice focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions and private equity, with a particular emphasis on cross-border transactions.

David-James represents a large number of international groups and private-equity funds for their investments in France, and advises French companies on their fund-raising and acquisitions in France and the United States. He regularly advises investors and entrepreneurs on M&A, venture and growth equity transactions, particularly in the tech, AI , healthcare sectors or sensitive businesses (for foreign investment control).

David-James has recently advised Talend (NASDAQ), on its acquisition by Thoma Bravo for USD 2.4 billion; TPG Capital and Planview, a US-based strategic portfolio management (SPM) platform, for the acquisition of Sciforma Corporation; Hitachi Vantara, the French subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. on the sale of oXya SAS, an SAP infrastructure solution provider, to Montefiore Investment; Tenable Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ) in the acquisition of Alsid, a French cybersecurity company; Hana Group and its management for the LBO of TA Associates, the subsequent build-up acquisition of Genji in the US and the secondary buy-out of Permira; Temasek for its investments in French leading companies Alan and ManoMano; Vitalliance, its founder and shareholders for the LBO with ISAI and secondary LBO with Parquest; MWM, Spendesk, Odaseva and other growth companies for their equity financings in France and the US.

David-James is a lawyer at the Paris and New York bars.