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IDI, one of the leading private equity firms in France, has acquired a majority stake in EXSTO, a leading French group in the field of high-performance elastomers. EXSTO Group has a turnover of 69 million euros in 2023 and employs nearly 360 people in six production sites in France, Italy and Brazil. It also has a sales office in the United...

DELSOL Avocats advised Edusign, a SaaS platform for secure digital presence sheets, on its acquisition of the AppScho start-up. AppScho offers a complete solution enabling higher education establishments to centralise all their digital services on a mobile application for their students. This acquisition enables Edusign to broaden its range of...

DELSOL Avocats is proud to be ranked in 10 Legal 500 EMEA 2024 categories : Construction – Tier 3 Data privacy and data protection – Tier 3 Dispute resolution : Commercial litigation – Tier 4 Dispute resolution : White-collar crime – Tier 4 Employment –

DELSOL Avocats is delighted to announce the promotion to Counsel status of three lawyers : Caroline Da Lage (Mergers & Acquisitions - Corporate Law), Jessica Neufville (Employment Law – Social welfare law, Distressed companies - Restructuring) and Arnaud Laroche (Non-profit Organisations - Social and solidarity-based entrepreneurship)....

Digital platforms are major players in our economy and this fact caught the attention of the European institutions. At the heart of their business model is the involvement of platform workers, to whom these companies subcontract all or part of a service. According to Brussels, there are 28 million platform workers in the Member States, 5.5...

« Every man has two countries : his own and France. » – John F. Kennedy said that to Charles De Gaulle in 1961 while he was in Paris. This is particularly accurate when it comes to employment law. Indeed, Article L. 1321-6 of the French Labor Code provides that any document containing employee obligations or that is necessary for an employee to...

DELSOL Avocats advised the GUEYDON family with the acquisition of a majority stake in their company. The GUEYDON family, founders of the toy retailer King Jouet, have returned as majority shareholders after selling control of the company in 2011 to the Italian retailer Toys Center, which has since then been acquired by the Italian group PRG...

A major player in the fields of HR Tech (notably HRIS), the Lyon-based company Fortify offers innovative and efficient solutions to companies (up to 3,000 employees), supported by around a hundred employees in France. Since its inception in 2014, it has registered a 30% growth. In order to accelerate its development in supporting the digital...

Hélène Vey-Morit provides assistance to French and international companies with French and European competition law, as well as distribution and consumer law. Her practice covers merger control and antitrust litigation (cartels, abuse of dominant position) before the French Competition Authority and national courts, as well as before foreign...

SEGEPO, a company specialising in the manufacture of mechanical parts, is reorganising its capital around its management, which has become the majority shareholder. Arkéa Capital and Bpifrance have become minority shareholders. In 2015, the French manufacturer sold 60% of its capital to Dentressangle, which took the opportunity of this new...

DELSOL Avocats is proud to have assisted the founders of Kyutai, a not-for-profit open science artificial intelligence research laboratory. Co-founded by CMA CGM, Groupe iliad and Schmidt Futures, Kyutai will publish all its research work free of charge. The laboratory’s co-founders aim for Kyutai to be a genuine hub for the French and...

For its 50th anniversary, DELSOL Avocats opens an office at 480, avenue Louise, marking a new step in the firm’s development. DELSOL Avocats assists clients daily with their international issues, whether they are French and developing projects abroad, or international with operations in Europe. The Firm was therefore keen to expand into...

Heliup, a Savoie-based start-up pioneering lightweight photovoltaic panels, has raised €10 million to transform the large roofs of existing buildings into a source of clean energy. The round of financing was led by Starquest Capital, a VC fund dedicated to investing in companies working to protect the climate and our resources,along with BNP...

E-RECYCLE, a player in the circular economy, recycles electronic products (mainly smartphones, PCs, tablets and consoles), with the aim of reducing programmed obsolescence and extending product life. The company has just closed a €1.5 million fund-raising round led by Demeter, via the Fonds d’Amorçage Industriel Métropolitain (FAIM)...

PRESS RELEASE - DELSOL Avocats assisted the US group DataBank (zColo) in the context of the acquisition by Etix Everywhere of five of its data centers located in and operated from France by zColo France SAS (one in Paris, one in Montpellier and one in Toulouse) with a maximum capacity of 5,4 MW. Initially DataBank had bought these assets in...

DELSOL Avocats advised Dimotrans Group with the acquisition of a stake in its capital by Crédit Mutuel Equity, a subsidiary of Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale. Dimotrans Group currently employs 2 700 people in its 70 French branches and its network of international subsidiaries and offices in Asia, Europe and the United States. With this new...

DELSOL Avocats advised Boostheat, a manufacturer of innovative heating solutions, with the acquisition of a stake in HBR Investment Group. This transaction was carried out as part of Boostheat’s safeguard plan, which was approved by the Lyon Commercial Court on 23 May 2023. DELSOL Avocats advised Boostheat since the beginning of the safeguard...

DELSOL Avocats is proud to be ranked in 9 Legal 500 EMEA 2023 categories : Construction – Tier 3 Data privacy and data protection – Tier 3 Dispute resolution : White-collar crime – Tier 4 Employment – Tier 4 Industry focus : Healthcare and life sciences – Tier 3 Mergers & Acquisitions – Tier 5 Private equity : venture/growth...

DELSOL Avocats assisted Neoma Business School with the acquisition of the continuing education company MELTIS. This transaction is part of Neoma’s new 23-27 strategic plan, called « Engage For The Future ». It aims at accelerating the growth of the school, which hopes to triple its turnover in five years, and to increase its expertise in...