Pierre GOUGÉ

Partner

Pierre GOUGÉ

Sectors

New technologies, industry, real estate, healthcare and social services, media, financial services, sustainable development services

Pierre GOUGÉ is co-head of the « Merges & Acquisitions - Corporate law » Department.
His expertise extends to the following areas :

  • mergers and acquisitions : advisory work with French and international groups in the framework of external growth operations, company transfers, mergers and demergers
  • private equity : in the broadest sense, capital risk, capital development, LBOs
  • stock markets / capital markets : IPOs, overseeing publicly listed companies, capital markets (securities, share and bond issues)
  • strategic alliances / joint ventures : his international experience has led him to coordinate numerous complex national and cross-border transactions on behalf of French and foreign clients, particularly in the framework of industrial partnerships and joint ventures.

He works with manufacturers, investment funds, startups and managers.

Pierre GOUGÉ graduated from PARIS II PANTHEON-ASSAS University (master’s degree in Business Law and Taxation, DESS postgraduate qualification in Industrial Property, DEA postgraduate qualification in Philosophy of Law) and from PARIS Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po – Economics and Finance stream).

He participates in training seminars and tops various legal rankings.

He practiced within the law firms LINKLATERS and DEBEVOISE & PLIMPTON from 2000 to 2012 and beginning his career with AIR LIQUIDE AMERICA CORPORATION in the U.S. in 1998.

Pierre GOUGÉ has been recognized by Best Lawyers since 2023 in “Mergers and Acquisitions Law” and “Venture Capital Law” (Best Lawyers, in partnership with Les Echos).

Languages

French, English

News

Fostering use of W&I insurance in French M&A Transactions

With a view to reconcile buyers’ and sellers’ opposite objectives in M&A and private equity transactions, W&I (Warranty and Indemnity, also know as Representations and Warranties) insurance has become a more and more widely-spread tool on the French market to popular risk allocation. W&I insurance enables to materially bridge gaps...

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PRESS RELEASE - DELSOL Avocats advised Astier de Villatte on the acquisition of a majority stake in its capital by Vesper Invest

DELSOL Avocats advised Astier de Villatte, a French company known for its ceramics and perfumes, on the acquisition of a majority stake in its capital by Vesper Invest, a French investment company specialising in long-term support for growing and sustainable businesses. Astier de Villatte, co-founded in Paris in 1996 by Benoît Astier de...

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PRESS RELEASE - DELSOL Avocats advised the Australian group Global Data Centre (GDC) on the sale of its stake in Etix Everywhere to Infranity, which has just been completed

DELSOL Avocats advised Global Data Centre Group (GDC), an Australian company specialising in data centre investments, on the sale of its stake in Etix Everywhere, a pan-European platform of edge data centres currently operating a total of 15 sites, to Infranity, a French investment fund specialising in the sustainable infrastructure sector....

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