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John R. Flanigan

John R. Flanigan

Partner

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John R. Flanigan is a partner in Salans' Paris office.  He specialises in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance, including leveraged acquisitions, securities offerings and venture capital investments. He acts for clients in the private equity and financial sector and in a wide range of other business sectors and industries (including technology companies, aerospace and defense, wines and spirits, consumer goods, life sciences and emerging markets).

John has published numerous articles on corporate and securities law issues, in particular regarding mergers and acquisitions, public offerings of securities and corporate governance. He has also been cited in numerous publications as a recognised corporate and private equity practitioner.

John previously spent two and a half years as Managing Partner of the Shanghai office, and now heads Salans' China Desk in Paris. The China Desk provides a contact point and expertise in France for clients who have invested or wish to invest in China and for Chinese investors in Europe.

Recent Experience:

  • Representing the world's fifth largest multinational oil & gas and chemicals company in the sale of its European-based solar energy operations to a US listed company
  • Representing a US fund in the sale of a prestigious Paris hotel property to a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund
  • Representing a US group in the reorganization of its European-wide businesses
  • Representing a leading French defense group in a major transaction in Eastern Europe
  • Representing a French aerospace company in the negotiation of a major long-term contract with an American group
  • Representing a Swedish company in the acquisition of a division of a major French water and energy group
  • Representing a French company in connection with a nuclear energy project in China
  • Representing an American group in the acquisition of the papers division of a major French conglomerate, and ongoing corporate and commercial representation
  • Representing a leading French papers group in the acquisition of a U.K. papers, filters and smoking accessories business and related assets in Belgium, and ongoing corporate and commercial representation
  • Representing a French pharmaceutical company in various regulatory, commercial and contentious matters
  • Representing investors in connection with various investments in French wine properties, and ongoing corporate and commercial representation
  • Representing an AIM quoted exploration, mining, trading and investment company in connection with the proposed acquisition of one of the largest chemical salt producers in China specialising in the production of cobalt, nickel and copper inorganic salts and powders, and its South African trading company
  • Representing one of the world's leading market research firms in the acquisition of a 49% stake in a Chinese company and the establishment of a joint venture, and ongoing regulatory and corporate matters and subsequent investment projects
  • Advising a leading French chemicals group in the establishment of joint venture structures in the Asia Pacific region including China for the production and marketing of refrigerant fluid products
  • Advising various US and European based private equity funds in connection with proposed acquisitions of Chinese domestic companies and/or assets
  • Establishing investment funds in various jurisdictions
  • Representing the issuer in a public offering by a French internet services company and listing on the Alternext market of Euronext in Paris
  • Representing a leading international IT services company in connection with a EUR 500 million private placement of securities
  • Acquisition by premier French wines and spirits group of Dijon-based producer of liqueurs and subsequent joint venture with leading Japanese drinks group
  • Representing leading American supplier of networking equipment and related services in a series of venture capital investments in France
  • Sale by U.S. based specialty goods group of its French subsidiary in a management buy-out
  • Representing major U.S. real estate investment fund in series of financing transactions and sale of prime hotel property in Paris
  • Representing leading European defense and aerospace company in a significant restructuring and joint venture transaction

Career:

  • Managing Partner, Salans in Shanghai (2006-2008)
  • Joined Salans in 1998
  • Previously with Willkie Farr & Gallagher in Paris and in New York
  • Admitted to the Paris bar in 1992
  • Admitted to the New York bar in 1986
  • Member of the American Bar Association
  • Member of the International Bar Association 
  • Member of the UIA (Union Internationale des Avocats)

Education:

  • New York University and University of North Carolina (J.D., 1985), Staff Member on the North Carolina Law Review (1983-1984)
  • University of Cincinnati (B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1981)

Languages:

  • English
  • French
  • German

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