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Paul Morel

Paul Morel

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  • Paris
    5 boulevard Malesherbes
    75008 Paris
    France

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Paul Morel is a Senior Partner in Salans' Paris office. He has over 20 years' experience with M&A and private equity. Paul is particularly active in private equity and represents all segments and actors in this field while creating funds and investment vehicles and structuring transactions driven by private equity.

In particular, Paul advises private equity funds, institutional investors and management teams on management buy-outs, leverage buy-outs, venture capital investments, corporate restructurings, work-outs and public-to-private transactions. He also advises management companies on their incentive agreements and he regularly counsels venture capital fund managers on the creation, structuring and negotiation of funds (including FCPRs and SCRs in France).

Paul represents a number of large international companies in Europe for whom he acts as special counsel for particularly sensitive, strategic or complex transactions or structurings.

Paul is Salans' representative to the European Venture Capital Association and he is a member of the LBO Committee and the Comité Juridique of AFIC (the "French Private Equity Association"). He has published numerous articles and participated in various French and international conferences on private equity matters. He is also a former lecturer at the University of Paris XI (1980-1985) and is co-author, with Jean-Pierre Legall, of French Company Law (Longman, 1992).

Recent Experience:

  • Advised one of the most important French investment funds in the structuring of its global funds and global incentive arrangements
  • Advised 21 Centrale Partners (an investment fund management group related to the Benetton Family) in connection with investments in France and the high-level partnering of the investment teams of 21 Centrale Partners in France and Italy
  • Advised Pragma in the creation of a EUR 330 million investment fund

Career:

  • Joined Salans in 1995
  • Member of the Paris bar since 1992
  • Was admitted to practice as Conseil juridique in France in 1986
  • Lecturer at the University of Paris XI (1980-1985)
  • Member of the LBO Committee and the Comité Juridique of AFIC (the French private equity association)
  • Member of the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA)
  • Lecturer at Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC) and Université du Maine (Le Mans)

Education:

  • University of Paris I, Doctorat d'Etat en Droit Privé (1984)
  • George Washington University, LL.M. (1980)
  • University of Paris IV, Licence en Lettres (1978)
  • University of Paris I, D.E.A. de Droit des Affaires Anglo-américain (1978)
  • University of Paris II, D.E.A. de Droit Social (1977)

Languages:

  • English
  • French

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