Orrick Advises Eurofiber on Acquisitions of Three French Companies

December.03.2019

We advised Eurofiber, a Dutch-Belgian digital infrastructure specialist and subsidiary of Antin Infrastructure Partners, on its acquisitions of three French companies: Eurafibre, ATE – Avenir Télématique and Eura DC.

All based in Lille, the three companies have a deep presence in northern France in fiberoptic connectivity, cloud and managed services, and server hosting services in colocation datacenters. They operate more than 2,000 km of fiberoptic network and two local datacenters, serving 150 business parks and 200 municipalities. Acquiring these companies will help Eurofiber accelerate its European growth strategy.

Orrick's team was led by Patrick Tardivy and included Amaury Berbille, Florent Lewkowicz and Lionel Simonet on M&A aspects; Jean-Luc Champy, Quirec de Kersauson and Camille Fouqué on public law aspects; Marie-Laure Combet, Lena Boucon, Elise Durand, Maxence Jonvel and Martin Ellie on competition law aspects; and Emmanuel Bénard, Chek-Lhy Luu and Léo Theillac on employment law aspects.

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Patrick Tardivy Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity

Paris

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Energy & Infrastructure Sector
Mergers & Acquisitions
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Energy
Real Estate
Capital Markets

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Patrick Tardivy Partner

Paris

Patrick advises French and international companies and investors on all aspects of corporate law in the context of acquisitions, disposals, mergers, reorganizations, including business carveouts and strategic alliances.

Patrick is particularly active in the energy and infrastructure fields as well as the tech sectors, working alongside investment funds, French and foreign groups, on both domestic and cross border transactions. Patrick also has significant experience in M&A projects with a focus in the real estate sector where he acts as lead counsel on high-profile transactions.

Recognized by the major international ranking guides, Patrick is valued by his clients for his "business sense is exceptionally useful; he knows our business model and what we are capable of achieving. There is a mutual sense of trust" (Chambers Global 2024). “Patrick has an impressive work force. It strives to always be innovative at the service of its customers in order to make them benefit from the latest market trends (W&I insurance for example)”. (Legal 500 EMEA 2023).

Prior to joining Orrick in 2016, Patrick was a partner in a Magic Circle law firm.

Marie-Laure Combet Partner, Antitrust & Competition, Antitrust & Competition

Paris

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Antitrust & Competition
Antitrust & Competition
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International Trade and Investment
Mergers & Acquisitions
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Marie-Laure Combet Partner

Paris

Marie-Laure advises clients on all aspects of French and European competition law and on all types of cases in these areas (i.e., audit/compliance, advice, merger control and administrative proceedings before the French Competition Authority and the European Commission as well as litigation before French and European courts).

Over the years, Marie-Laure has also developed significant experience in state aid matters. She has thus worked on several landmark cases mainly in the banking, air transport and energy sectors.

Prior to joining Orrick, Marie-Laure was Counsel in the Paris office of Clifford Chance.

Emmanuel Benard Partner, Employment Law & Litigation, Restructuring

Paris

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Employment Law & Litigation
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Emmanuel Benard Partner

Paris

Emmanuel represents numerous French and international companies on all aspects of employment law including international and cross-border issues.

His practice focuses on reorganizations, collective redundancies. He notably advised key players of the Financial, Metal, Food and Beverages, Pharmaceutical, Technology, Leisure and Music Industries in implementing economic dismissals and voluntary departures. He also assists these clients with employee representation and collective bargaining and sensitive individual cases.

Emmanuel has a strong proficiency in collective litigation as well as criminal litigation and currently handles a number of sensitive cases arising from works council and health and safety committee information consultation procedure, professional elections, collective bargaining agreements and employees performance appraisal system.

With a long-standing experience on landmark M&A, he regularly supports HR Directors in dealing with works council information and consultation procedures and transfer of employees triggered by such complex projects, helping them achieving their strategic objectives.

Co-author of an insightful and pedagogic book on all labor and employment facets of companies’ reorganization, Emmanuel is described by his clients as “a guru in the field of employment law” and praised for his “business sense”.

Before joining Orrick in 2016, Emmanuel was a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris, where he was in charge of the Employment, Pension and Benefits Department. Prior to that he was partner at the boutique employment law firm Bélier et Associés where he started his career.

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