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Biography

Admitted to the Paris Bar in 1990, partner Olivier Diaz has over 25 years' experience in complex mergers and acquisitions, private equity operations, securities law and corporate law. His practice covers a wide variety of transactions, in particular public and private mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and corporate restructurings. During his career, Olivier has worked with clients on the largest and most complex M&A transactions in France, particularly in industrial fields, such as telecoms, luxury, food and beverage, and financial institutions. He has been involved in the defense on several landmark hostile take-overs and aggressive stake-building, as well as activism situations. He also assists companies on complex governance issues and is regularly consulted by regulators on securities and corporate law issues. He teaches a course on securities law in a post-masters degree of University Paris II-Assas (