Baptiste Ferraud
Biography
Overview
Baptiste Ferraud is an associate in the EMEA Private-Equity / Mergers & Acquisition practice at White & Case.
Fluent in French and English, Baptiste is at ease navigating both domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, involving listed and non-listed companies, as well as private equity transactions and restructuring operations of distressed companies.
Baptiste advises multinational clients, including investment funds, investment banks, industrials, French and foreign listed and non-listed companies, and distressed companies.
Prior to joining White & Case in 2021, Baptiste worked at several other high-profile international law firms based in Paris.
He is also a lecturer in corporate law at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Experience
Technique Solaire (2023)
Representation of Technique Solaire, a French independent producer of renewable energies, and its founders on a €200 million capital increase raised from its historical financial shareholders Bpifrance and a pool of investors from the Crédit Agricole Group.
Grand Nancy Thermal Développement (GNTD) (2023)
Representation of the concessionary company Grand Nancy Thermal Développement (GNTD) and its shareholders Bouygues Bâtiment Nord-Est, Omnes Capital and ValVital on the negotiation and conclusion of a mediation protocol with the Metropole of Grand Nancy and opponents of the Nancy Thermal aquatic and thermal complex project, and on the implementation of the protocol.
Cathay Capital Private Equity (2023)
Representation of Cathay Capital Private Equity on the acquisition of a significant stake in the independent French video game developer Shiro Games.