Florent Lewkowicz

Florent Lewkowicz is an M&A and Private Equity lawyer in Orrick's Paris office.

• Engagements

  Mr. Lewkowicz’s experience notably includes advising:

  • the French water treatment group Saur in its acquisition of the Dutch company Nijhuis Industries, a leader in the industrial water treatment sector;

  • Geogas LNG, a joint venture among DIF Core Infrastructure Fund I, Geogas Maritime and Access Capital Partners, on the acquisition of a 50% stake in a French incorporated company jointly held with Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) and dedicated to the ownership and the operation of liquefied natural gas carriers;

  • Eurofiber, a Dutch/Belgian digital infrastructure specialist, in its acquisition of Eurafibre, ATE and Eura DC;

  • 3i Infrastructure in its acquisition, alongside management, of Ionisos, a leading owner and operator of cold sterilisation facilities;

  • Shareholders of Paycar, a company specialized in secure online payments, in connection with its sale to Leboncoin;  

  • Carsharing pioneer Getaround, Inc. in its recent $300 million acquisition of Drivy, the largest and fastest-growing carsharing platform in Europe;

  • Delta Galil Industries, Ltd. in its acquisition of Eminence (2018);

  • Key Safety Systems on the French aspects of its acquisition of substantially all of the assets and operations of Takata Corporation (2018);

  • StandardAero, Inc., a portfolio company of Veritas Capital, in its acquisition of Vector Aerospace Holding SAS from Airbus SE (2017);

  • leading provider of connectivity for the Internet of Things SigFox in its c. €150 million new fundraising, supported by existing shareholders and new high profile investors (2016/2017)

  • Cheetah Mobile, the world’s leading mobile utility and content app developer, in connection with its US$57 million acquisition of News Republic, a leading media content app developer (2016);

  • Eurazeo in its acquisitions of Les Petits Chaperons Rouges (2015/2016);

  • Nokia in its combination with Alcatel-Lucent, through a €15.6 billion public exchange offer and public buyout offer in France and in the United States (2015);

  • Parrot in connection with its €298 million share capital increase via a public rights offering in France and an international private placement outside the United States in compliance with Regulation S and within the United States to qualified institutional buyers (2015).