Cyril Deniaud advises French and foreign clients (listed companies, investment funds, institutional investors and banks) in connection with market transactions (takeover bids, IPOs, issues of shares or securities giving access to capital, delistings, management and employee shareholdings, etc.).

Bar Admissions
Paris

Education
EFB

DESS (Post graduate Degree) in Tax and Business Law (Paris I-Pantheon Sorbonne)

Institut d etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP)

Centre Universitaire d etudes Politiques de Nancy

Significant Accomplishments
Capital markets:

Advised Global Bioenergies on its Capital Increase in favor of a category of persons with a public offering aimed at retail investors (via Primabyd platform) for a total amount of 14.5 M€.
Advised Hoffman Green Cement Technologies in the context of its share capital increase without preferential subscription rights by way of a public offering and with a priority period, on a irreducible basis only, for its existing shareholders on Euronext Growth Paris.
Advised the Prologue Group in the context of its capital reorganization, which involved a public exchange offer launched by Prologue for the shares of its sub-subsidiary M2i, followed by the merger by Prologue of its subsidiary O2i.
Advised Height Capital Mangement in the context of its subscription to the reserved capital increase issuance of bonds convertible into new shares and/or exchangeable for existing shares of Claranova (50 M€).
Advised Ikonisys on its Initial Public Offering on the Market of Euronext Growth Paris.
Advised Archos and Equitis Gestion in the establishment of a trust to restructure Archos’ 6 M€ debt to the European Investment Bank through the issuance of share subscription warrants (equitization process).
Advised Equitis Gestion in the establishment of a trust to restructure Cybergun’s 12m€ bond debt through the issuance of share subscription warrants (equitization process).
Advising Archos (Euronext Paris) on its new financing by way of notes convertibles into shares with share subscription warrants attached (10 M€), based on a simplified prospectus approved by the AMF.
Advisied Euromédis Groupe (Euronext Paris) on its convertible bonds issuance with preferential subscription rights (2.8 M€).
Advised Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies on its initial public offering on the market of Euronext Growth Paris (74 M€).
Advised Maroc Telecom on the sale by the Kingdom of Morocco of 8% of Maroc Telecom’s share capital, for a total amount of 8.88 billion dirhams (approximately 825 M€), through a block sale transaction and an offer for sale to the public on the Casablanca Stock Exchange .
Advised Global Bioenergies (Euronext Growth) on a capital increase by way of a public offering without preferential subscription rights (17 M€).
Advised Archos (Euronext) on its share capital increase with preferential subscription rights (4.3 M€).
Advised Global Bioenergies (Euronext Growth) on a capital increase by way of private placement (6.2 M€).
Advised Cogelec on its initial public offering on the regulated market of Euronext Paris (41.7 M€).
Advised Aroundtown (Euronext Growth/ Frankfurt Stock Exchange) on its delisting from Euronext Growth Paris.
Advised Figeac Aéro on its issuance of ORNANE by way of private placement (100 M€).
Advised Novacyt (Euronext Growth Paris) on its dual listing on AIM London, following a reserved share capital increase (9.7 M€)
Advised M2i (Euronext Access) on the transfer of the company from Euronext Access to Euronext Growth by way of private placement (6.8 M€)
Advised O2i (Euronext Growth) on the issuance of shares with share subscription warrants attached, with preferential subscription rights (2.7 M€)
Advised Figeac Aéro (Alternext) on (i) a capital increase of 86.2 M€ following a public offering, (ii) the sale of the shares by the reference shareholder (10 M€), and (iii) the transfer of the company on the regulated market of Euronext Paris.
Advised Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation in relation to the fund raising of Vallourec for €1bn through a reserved issuance of mandatory convertible bonds and the subscription to a capital increase with preferential subscription rights).
Advised Etablissements Maurel & Prom on (i) its issuance of ORNANE (253 M€) and (ii) a simultaneous buyback of OCEANE maturing in 2014, performed over the counter as part of a reverse bookbuilding process and continued on the stock market in a procedure involving payoff at the same price.
Advised Bpifrance Investissement on its acquisition of a stake in Serge Ferrari Group, as part of the global investment related to the listing of Serge Ferrari Group shares on the Euronext regulated market in Paris (38 M€).
Advised the Fonds Stratégique d’Investissement on its acquisition of a stake as part of a capital increase with preferential subscription rights of Cegedim, a company listed on Euronext Paris (180 M€).

Public takeovers:

Advised Groupe Open (listed on Euronext) on the tender offer for its shares launched by New GO, special purpose vehicle constituted by the managers of Groupe Open and Montefiore, acting in concert.
Advised Yorkville on the sale of its stake in TxCell capital (listed on Euronext), in the framework of the tender offer launched by Sangamo Therapeutics for TxCell.
Deal counsel on the simplified tender offer followed by a squeeze out launched by SiegCo for Valtech (listed on Euronext Paris and whose registered office is in the UK).
Deal counsel on the simplified tender offer launched by Hodiall for Radiall (listed on Euronext Paris) in the perspective of its delisting.
Advised Montupet (listed on Euronext Paris) on the tender offer for its shares by the Canadian group Linamar.
Advised Financière Ampère Galilée on its simplified tender offer for Serma Technologies (listed on Euronext Paris).
Advised Prologue (listed on Euronext Paris) on its public exchange offer for O2i (listed on Alternext).
Advised the BPCE Group on its simplified tender offer for the shares issued by Banque de la Réunion (listed on Euronext Paris) followed by a squeeze out.
Advised the Belgian group Solvay on its tender offer for Rhodia.

Corporate – Mergers & acquisitions:

Advised the April group on the sale of subsidiaries in Latin America and Eastern Europe.
Advised the Danone group on the sale of one of its European subsidiaries.
Advised the April group on the acquisition of a majority stake in the capital of a European insurance broker.
Advised Danone on the acquisition, in partnership with the Groupe Abraaj, of Fan Milk International, a major player in the manufacture and distribution of frozen dairy products and juices in various counties of West Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Burkina Faso, Benin and Ivory Coast).
Advised the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations on the creation of the French Strategic Investment Fund.

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