Expertise
Stock Exchange Law
The Firm regularly advises its clients on complex stock exchange issues, in particular public tender offers, public exchange offers, through normal or simplified procedures as well as squeeze-outs.
Over the last ten years, Brandford Griffith & Associés has acted in the following cases:
- Adviser to Campari in its tender offer on Société des Produits Marnier Lapostolle
- Adviser to UBS, sponsoring bank of the tender offer launched by Holcim on Lafarge
- Adviser to Strategic Holdings in the public tender offer filed by Global Resorts on Club Méditerranée
- Adviser to Steria SCA in the public exchange offer of Sopra Group
- Adviser to Cristal Union in the public tender offers on Société Champenoise de Gestion and Société Vermandoise de Sucreries
- Adviser to Seloger.com in the unsolicited tender offer launched by Axel Springer
- Adviser to Hologram Industries and its CEO in the squeeze-out procedure (following a simplified public tender offer) and the entry of the Abenex fund
- Adviser to JMBE in its simplified public tender offer on Aerowatt and the squeeze-out procedure
- Adviser to Arcelor in the unsolicited tender offer launched by Mittal Steel
- Adviser to Crédit Agricole SA in the mixed public offer on Crédit Lyonnais
- Adviser to the Lesaffre family in the delisting and squeeze-out of Fala
- Adviser to OFI Private Equity Capital and Leon de Bruxelles in the delisting and squeeze-out of Leon de Bruxelles
- Adviser to the Bernard family in the delisting and squeeze-out of Prosodie
- Adviser to the Italian group Enel in respect of its proposed public tender offer for Suez
Brandford Griffith & Associés is a recognised expert in stock market litigation, as it has been regularly involved in most of the litigious matters relating to hostile public tender offers as well as insider dealing matters before the Autorité des marchés financiers and the Paris Court of Appeal. The Firm has acted as adviser to legal entities or individuals (companies or members of their management) in cases such as Eiffage, Vivendi and EADS.