Global law firm Ropes & Gray announced the opening of an office in Paris, France. Together with the firm’s London office, this forms a European hub for Ropes & Gray. Fabrice Cohen, Thierry Arachtingi, and Emmanuel Mimin join Ropes & Gray France AARPI as partners, with Fabrice Cohen serving as office managing partner. They are joined by a large group of counsel and associates. The team also brings extensive experience in private equity, infrastructure, banking, and finance transactions.
Cohen is recognized as a leading lawyer in private equity and M&A. As a prominent attorney in the European market for high-end private capital, large M&A transactions, and securities law, Cohen’s practice includes domestic and cross-border deals. Cohen regularly advises some of the largest private equity firms, sovereign wealth and pension funds, and publicly listed companies on all aspects of public and private M&A and corporate reorganizations. His expertise spans aerospace & defense, automotive, healthcare, and consumer/retail sectors.
Recognized in the French and wider European Union banking and finance markets, Arachtingi advised on numerous senior and subordinated financings for domestic, international, and cross-border acquisitions. And these have included leveraged buyouts, public-to-private transactions, and private investments in public equity. Arachtingi also has deep experience representing lenders and sponsors with respect to their funds and portfolio companies’ borrowing needs. Arachtingi’s work has received international recognition.
Mimin focuses on M&A, with an emphasis on private capital transactions, advising private equity firms, multi-asset managers, and sovereign wealth and pension funds across all investment structures and strategies, including secondaries and co-investments. He has experience across sectors that include healthcare, technology, media and telecommunications, and renewables. Highly regarded for his in-depth knowledge of private equity and role as a trusted advisor to clients, And Mimin has been consistently recognized as a preeminent M&A and private equity lawyer.
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“This is a significant milestone for Ropes & Gray as we expand into this dynamic European market for private capital and strategic M&A. France is an important region for our global clients, who are active across Europe, investing and seeking to expand their operations there. We are excited to have a team of world-leading M&A lawyers in Paris, characterized by the exceptional transactional skills, client focus, and industry expertise that have long defined Ropes & Gray.”
- Julie Jones, Ropes & Gray chair
“Ropes & Gray is a global leader in private capital and strategic M&A. We look forward to building upon the firm’s first-class reputation across some of the currently most active sectors in private capital and strategic M&A, such as healthcare and life sciences, technology, infrastructure, and more.”
- Fabrice Cohen, the firm’s office managing partner in Paris
