David-James Sebag is a Partner in the Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions group, Managing Partner of the New York office and Co-Head of the Tech M&A/VC practice in Paris. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions and private equity, with a particular emphasis on French/US cross-border transactions.

David-James represents international groups and private-equity funds for their investments in France and advises French companies for their fundraisings and exit, in France or the US. He works with many investors and entrepreneurs on M&A, venture capital, growth equity or LBO transactions, in particular in the tech, AI and healthcare sectors.

David-James has recently advised Talend (NASDAQ), on its acquisition by Thoma Bravo for USD 2.4 billion; TPG Capital and Planview for the acquisition of Sciforma Corporation; Hitachi Vantara on the sale of oXya SAS 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, Wandercraft and other growth companies for their equity financings in France and the US.

David-James is qualified in Paris and New York. He graduated from Columbia law school (LL.M. in 2001) and Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (two master's degrees in 1999 and 2000)