Private Equity
Gide boasts a Private Equity expertise spanning the full investment cycle and all asset classes within the private equity industry: Investment Structuring, Venture & Growth Tech, LBO Sponsors, Executives & Management Packages, and Infrastructure.
This comprehensive spectrum of expertise, which addresses the full range of needs of private equity investors —whether financial or family sponsors, founders or management teams— is delivered by teams specialising in each segment of the private equity industry. Thanks to their extensive track record and their in-depth knowledge of latest market practices and developments, these experts are regarded as leading players in their respective fields.
Our Investment Structuring, Venture & Growth Tech, LBO Sponsors, Executives & Management Packages, and Infrastructure teams work in an integrated manner, assembling multidisciplinary teams tailored to each project. They draw on the Firm’s full range of expertise required to structure and execute private equity transactions of all kinds, including tax structuring, leveraged finance and regulatory matters (FDI and antitrust).
When acting for sponsors on public-to-private transactions, IPOs or carve-outs from large groups, our Private Equity teams can also draw on our M&A team’s first-rate experience, particularly in securities law. They also work closely with our dedicated restructuring team on financial restructuring transactions, and with our Employee Share Schemes specialists on the structuring and roll-out of employees share ownership plans.
Lastly, beyond their recognised transactional expertise, our Private Equity teams possess a deep understanding of the legal issues specific to a wide range of sectors (including IT/tech, financial services, defence, life sciences and regulated professions), as well as to family-owned businesses and family investment structures, developed by the Firm’s cross-practice teams.
Areas of intervention
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We advise private equity players on the full range of legal, tax and regulatory issues relating to the structuring of their investment funds. We act on all fund types and investment strategies (private equity, debt, real estate, infrastructure), as well as on secondary transactions, continuation funds and management companies’ growth projects.
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We advise investors, founders and corporate groups on all types of transactions in the technology sector, from seed fundraising to growth equity deals, M&A, restructuring operations and exit operations.
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A prominent name on the French market, we assist French and international investment funds and investors with their LBO and growth buyout transactions. We mobilise all of the Firm’s expertise required for highly complex deals —including tax, leveraged finance, foreign investment control, and antitrust and regulatory clearances— combining our transactional expertise with strong sector-specific knowledge.
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We advise executives, founders, managers and family shareholders on their strategic and wealth-related transactions, with recognised expertise in management packages, governance and capital raising from outside investors. We assist them with ownership transitions, LBOs, IPOs and M&A transactions, in France and internationally, and also cover the structuring and roll-out of their employee share ownership schemes.
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We advise private capital players on their investments in the energy and infrastructure sectors, covering all asset classes and investment strategies. We bring together the Firm’s multidisciplinary expertise to support the most complex transactions, particularly in financing, regulatory and competition matters.

























