Carine Louyot

Carine Louyot’s practice primarily focuses on French labor and employment law. She regularly provides advice to many international and domestic companies on a wide range of issues, including matters related to corporate transactions (such as due diligence, consultation requirements, employee transfers and post-closing integration), restructuring operations (such as collective redundancy plans), collective negotiations, works council consultations, terminations of employment and employment-related litigation.

Ms. Louyot's experience includes representing:

• Three Hills Capital Partners and La Bottega in the acquisition of Palatino Hospitality
• Mercedes-Benz in its investment in European battery cell manufacturer Automotive Cells Company alongside founding joint venture partners Stellantis and TotalEnergies, with an objective to reach capacity of at least 120 GW hours in Europe by 2030 for an investment volume of more than €7 billion
• Coty Inc. in its strategic partnership with KKR & Co. Inc., including the carve-out sale of 60% of its professional beauty and retail hair businesses to KKR with an enterprise value of $4.3 billion
• International Paper in its $7.2 billion recommended offer for DS Smith
• Purolite Corporation in its $3.7 billion acquisition by Ecolab Inc.
• Trimble Inc. in the sale and contribution of its agriculture business to a joint venture with AGCO Corporation, and AGCO’s US$2 billion acquisition of an 85% stake in the joint venture
• Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. in its $1.4 billion sale of zColo to Databank. This transaction was named the 2020 IJGlobal Deal of the Year
• Extreme Networks in the implementation of a restructuring and a downsizing
• Technip Energies in the creation of a joint venture in the field of green hydrogen with John Cockerill
• Iliad, a listed telecom group and parent company of French telecom company Free, in connection with the acquisition of a 75% stake in Jaguar Network, a leading developer of technologies for the cloud, telecom and smart cities markets in France
• Delta Galil, in its acquisition of Eminence SAS for approximately €130 million
• GBT Travel Services UK Limited (d/b/a American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT)) in its acquisition of Egencia Europe SAS from Expedia Group, Inc.
• F.I.L.A. (Fabbrica Italiana Lapis e Affini S.p.A.) in connection with its $49 million acquisition of the fine arts business operated by the AhlstromMunksjö Group under the ARCHES brand
• International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. in the US$810 million sale of its cosmetic ingredients unit to Clariant AG
• KPMG France, in connection with the sale of its restructuring activity to Interpath Advisor
• Acofi and its founding directors in connection with its merger with Sienna Investment Managers, a subsidiary of Belgian holding company Groupe Bruxelles Lambert
• Hologic in the carve-out and divestment of its French subsidiary SuperSonic Imagine
• Silver Lake in connection with its voluntary tender offer, and subsequent squeeze-out, of CEGID Group, and related strategic advice, including a plan to transform CEGID Group into a Societas Europaea and its potential relocation to the Netherlands