About
Avocat à la Cour, Simon is a corporate counsel in our Global M&A and Capital practice.
His main areas of expertise are corporate law, private equity and public and private mergers and acquisitions. His experience includes both domestic and cross-border transactions.
Simon is fluent in French and English.
Additional Information
- Advising a number of high-profile regional sovereign wealth funds on a variety of matters including entry into co-investments with PAI Partners, Warburg Pincus and other global managers.
- Advising EQT Infrastructure on the sale of 50% of its stake in the SAUR group to a consortium formed by PGGM and DIF Capital Partners.
- Advising Chequers Capital on the disposal of the ECT group to a consortium formed by CNP and Sienna Private Equity.
- Advising Funecap on the acquisition of Altair Funeral.
- Advising Charterhouse Capital Partners on the disposal of the Cooper-Vemedia group to CVC and its concomitant reinvestment alongside the purchaser.
- Advising Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board on the disposal of its minority stake in European Camping Group to PAI Partners.
- Advising Marlin Equity Partners on the acquisition of a majority stake in iBanFirst.
- Advising Charterhouse Capital Partners in the context of the investment of Latour Capital in the Funecap group.
- Advising Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec in the context of the investment of ICG in Biogroup.
- Advising Comexposium on the creation of Vinexposium, its joint venture with Vinexpo regrouping their B2B wine & spirits fairs and events organisation business.
- Advising Charterhouse Capital Partners and the SERB group on the $800M acquisition of BTG Specialty Pharmaceuticals from Boston Scientific Corporation and the concomitant minority equity investment in SERB of Partners Group and Mérieux Equity Partners.
- Advising Blackstone on its equity investment in the Sipartech group alongside its founder.
- Advising Charterhouse Capital Partners on the disposal of the Comexposium group.
- Advising Charterhouse Capital Partners on the acquisition of a majority stake in the Funecap group.
- Advising Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board on the acquisition of a minority stake in European Camping Group alongside Carlyle and Montefiore.
- Advising Charterhouse Capital Partners on the acquisition of the SERB group.
- Advising Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec and Ardian on the acquisition of a significant stake in the Alvest group.
- Advising Chequers Capital on the disposal of the Accelya group to Warburg Pincus.
- Advising Charterhouse Capital Partners on the acquisition of the Cooper group from Caravelle.
Simon Dievart
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Paris Office
9 avenue de Messine
Paris 75008