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Christophe Clerc is an M&A / CM partner at Marccus Partners in Paris. He specialises in corporate and securities law, with a focus on cross-border public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and group reorganisations. He also has extensive expertise in capital markets and corporate governance issues. He regularly advises major international groups, banks and other investors on a wide variety of transactions.
Christophe Clerc was closely involved in the implementation in France of the EU Takeover Directive. He is a member of a permanent advisory committee of the French Financial Markets Authority (Autorité des Marchés Financiers, AMF) and of the legal panel of ANSA, a leading corporate law authority. He also teaches corporate governance at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris). Christophe was the co-author of the Report on the EU Transparency Directive commissioned by the European Commission. He regularly works for the European Parliament.

Practices

  • Public and Private Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Joint Ventures, Reorganizations
  • Capital Markets
  • Takeover Defenses
  • Corporate Governance

Experience

  • Since 2008: Partner, Marccus Partners, Paris
  • 1999 – 2008: Senior Associate and European Counsel, Shearman & Sterling, Paris
  • 2007: Responsible for the legal section of a study commissioned by the European Commission on the “one share, one vote” principle
  • 2006: Designed the first French law specifically providing for an anti-takeover defense; advised several major French companies on the implementation of this defense.
  • 1994 – 1999: Associate, Siméon & Associés, Paris

Education

  • Secrétaire de la Conférence du Stage
  • DEA (LL.M. equivalent) in English and North American Business Law (Pantheon-Sorbonne University – Paris I)
  • Diploma of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Paris), business and finance section
  • Master in EC and international law (Assas University – Paris II)

Publications

Selection of published articles:

  • China Outbound Investments, French country report, CCH, 2011
  • “Fonds versus Industriels – Concurrence des acteurs M&A dans la crise” (co-author), Option Finance / Option Droit & Affaires, 10/2011
  • “La directive AIFM, des avancées significatives au prix de compromis complexes”, Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Financier (RTDF), No. 2011-3
  • “Wendel : l'Autorité des marchés financiers fait primer les principes”, La Tribune, Editoriaux & Opinions, 20.01.2011
  • Transparency Directive Assessment Report, Report for the European Commission, Mazars/Marccus Partners, April 2010
  • “Faut-il réformer la Directive Transparence ?”, RTDF, No. 2010-3, pp. 20-27
  • “Questioning the legitimacy of shareholder power”, Edward Elgar, 2009
  • “La réforme de l’appel public à l’épargne”, RTDF, No. 2008-3, pp. 20-25
  • “L’appel public à mandat”, RTDF, No. 2008-3, pp. 44-46
  • “Prêts de titres et opérations assimilées : la question du vote vide”, RTDF, No. 2008-1, pp. 15-19
  • Proportionality between ownership and control in EU listed companies, Report for the European Commission, 2007
  • “Réflexions sur la démocratie actionnariale”, RTDF, No. 2007-3, pp. 88-94
  • “La réparation du préjudice subi par un actionnaire du fait de la diffusion de fausses informations”, RTDF, No. 2007-1, pp. 31-39
  • “Le contrôle judiciaire sur les bons d’offre”, RTDF, No. 2006-3, pp. 61-70
  • “Les bons d’offre au cœur de la transposition de la directive OPA”, RTDF, No. 2006-1, pp. 27-33

Conferences and Seminars 

  • Conferences in Berlin, Copenhagen, London, Brussels and Paris
  • Seminars on joint venture agreements

Membership And Teaching Commitments

  • Member of the Comité juridique (legal panel) and sub-committee on “proxy solicitation” of the Association Nationale des Sociétés par Actions (ANSA)
  • Member of the permanent advisory committee of the French Financial Markets Authority (Autorité des Marchés Financiers, AMF) on Transactions and Financial Information, as well as of various advisory sub-committees (stock lending, information on significant holdings, public offerings)
  • Responsible for a seminar on corporate governance at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de ParisLecturer on the Master de Recherche de Droit Financier degree course (Research Master’s Degree in Financial Law) at Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Paris I

Languages

  • French
  • English

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