Alexandre Chagneau

Alexandre Chagneau helps private equity clients and multinational groups on the tax aspects of their acquisitions, mergers, and reorganizations. His practice focuses on different aspects of cross-border transactions, including tax due diligence and structuring. His practice also includes management investment structuring, tax audits and litigations.

In addition to his native French, Alexandre is fluent in English.

Advised:

• Montefiore Investment and Gandi in the sale of Gandi, a French domain name registrar,web hosting company and provider of email and SSL certificates, to the pan-European companyTotalWebhosting Solutions (TWS).
• Qualium Investissement in their majority investment in Realease Capital, a leading specialist in lease engineering.
• Eight Advisory in relation to the reorganization of its capital following the acquisition of a minority stake of Sienna Investment Managers in Eight Advisory.
• The Grape Hospitality hotel platform on its mortgage facility extension related to its 86 hotels owned and operated in France and 6 other European countries.
• Bridgepoint on the acquisition of a majority stake in CAST and the launch of a mandatory simplified tender offer to acquire the remaining CAST shares.
• Montefiore Investment in the acquisition of a majority stake in Generix Group, alongside Pléiade Investissement.
• CVC Capital Partners on the structuring of its minority investment in the capital of the commercial company created by France's Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP).
• Bridgepoint Development Capital on the disposal of their interest in Groupe CIR, an independent specialist in city-center real-estate investment.
• Qualium Investissement on the acquisition by Acolad group of Ubiqus group, language services and transcription expert.
• Cooper Consumer Health, a CVC backed company, on its acquisition of Lashilé Beauty, French consumer health food supplement business.
• SAF group and its shareholder Oaktree Capital on the structuring of the acquisition of Starlite Aviation Group.
• Qualium Investissement on its minority investment in Constellation, Digital Services Company offering a comprehensive IT support.
• Charterhouse Capital Partners on the structuring aspects of the sale of a majority stake in the Cooper Consumer Health Group, a leading European independent over-the-counter (“OTC”) drug manufacturer and distributor, to CVC Capital Partners Fund VII and reinvestment in its next stage of growth.
• L-GAM on the acquisition of a majority stake in Group Vinventions, a world leader in wine closure solutions.
• The SERB group and its majority shareholder (Charterhouse Capital Partners) in connection with (i) the structuring of its acquisition of BTG International Healthcare group from Boston Scientific Corporation, (ii) the refinancing of its existing debt and (iii) the reinvestment of current shareholders and the entry of new minority investors (Mérieux and Partners Group) into the group.
• Novétude Santé and its shareholder Charterhouse Capital Partners) on the acquisition of DMVP Formation, (known under the brand name Ma Formation Officinale), leader in e-learning programs for pharmacists.
• Charterhouse Capital Partners on the structuring of its acquisition of Novétude Santé Group.
• The private equity fund Montefiore Investment on the structuring aspects of the acquisition of the Gandi group.
• The KKR funds and Webhelp, a leading provider of customer experience and business process outsourcing, on the sale of Webhelp to Group Bruxelles Lambert (GBL).
• Qualium Investissement on the acquisition from Naxicap Partners of Acolad, an international translation agency.
• L-GAM Advisers on the acquisition of Amplitude Systèmes, a manufacturer of ultrafast lasers for scientific, medical and industrial applications, from a group of private equity sellers.
• Oaktree Capital on its minority investment in the COFFIM group, real estate developer.
• The French Dutch laboratory Cooper-Vemedia on the structuring aspects of the acquisition of 12 pharmaceuticals brands from Sanofi.
• Private equity fund Charterhouse and other investors on the structuring of their acquisition of SERB pharmaceuticals.
• Bridgepoint Development Capital (BDC) in relation with its minority stake into bee2link’s capital.
• The Cooper/Vemedia group (held by Charterhouse) on the structuring of the full (cashless) refinancing of its external debt drawn down in January 2016.
• Private equity fund Charterhouse and other investors on the structuring of their acquisition of SERB pharmaceuticals.
• Groupe Stago on the structuring and financing aspects of the acquisition of an 80% stake in HemoSonics, an American point of care diagnostic centers, from founders.
• Private equity fund Bridgepoint Development Capital on the acquisition of CIR, a group specialized in the restoration of buildings, from its founders.
• Private equity fund Stirling square CP on the acquisition of Vernet, a subsidiary of The Magnum Corporation, manufacturer of air ventilation & conditioning equipment for cars and sanitary facilities, from family shareholders.
• The managers of Industrial Parts Holding (IPH) on their reinvestment in connection with the acquisition from PAI Partner of IPH – a leading European distributor of industrial supplies- by its competitor Brammer France, main European supplier of goods and services for maintenance and repair, controlled by Advent International.
• The Stago Group (In Vitro Diagnosis (IVD) industry, wholly dedicated to the exploration of haemostasis and thrombosis) on the reorganization of its European activities along with the issue of debt for the financing of its activities and development.
• Charterhouse Capital Partners on the structuring of the sale by the Charterhouse funds and management of their stake in the Sagemcom group, world leader in broadband communications and energy solutions, to a new continuation fund created and owned by Charterhouse.

• ESSEC, Programme Grande Ecole
• Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, (M1 Droit des Affaires)
• Université Paris IX Dauphine, (M2 221 – Fiscalité de l’entreprise)

• Paris

• English
• French