Olivier Parawan

• Advised Novétude Santé and its shareholder Charterhouse Capital Partners) on the acquisition of DMVP Formation, (known under the brand name Ma Formation Officinale), leader in e-learning programs for pharmacists.
• Advised the SERB group, a portfolio group of Charterhouse Capital Partners on the structuring of its acquisition of the specialty pharmaceutical company Veriton Pharma Ltd.
• Advised Charterhouse Capital Partners on the structuring of its acquisition of Novétude Santé Group.
• Advised the KKR funds and Webhelp, a leading provider of customer experience and business process outsourcing, on the sale of Webhelp to Group Bruxelles Lambert (GBL).
• Advised Cromwell Property Group acting on behalf of a foreign investor in connection with the acquisition of an office building located 7 rue de la Baume, in Paris.
• Advised Savills Investment Management acting on behalf of a foreign investor in connection with the acquisition of the real estate complex located 19 rue de Calais in Paris.
• Advised Savills Investment Management acting on behalf of a foreign investor in connection with the acquisition of an office building located 35 rue de Bassano in Paris.
• Advised Balzac REIM acting on behalf of a foreign investor in connection with the acquisition of an office building located 79-81 boulevard Haussmann in Paris.
• Advised BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management France in connection with the acquisition of the building 51-53 boulevard Haussmann.
• Advised Europa Capital and Balzac REIM in connection with the letting and the sale of the office building “Sémaphore”, located in Levallois-Perret.
• Advised Balzac REIM acting on behalf of a foreign investor in connection with the acquisition of the building “Ateliers Victoires“ in Paris.
• Advised Balzac REIM acting on behalf of a foreign investor in connection with the acquisition of a building located 21 rue de Berri in Paris.
• Advised the management of Primonial, one of the French leaders in asset management for individuals, on their minority investment in the group, in the context of the purchase of a majority shareholding by the private equity fund Bridgepoint (with Crédit Mutuel Arkéa also retaining a minority stake).
• Advised private equity fund Charterhouse and other investors on the structuring of their acquisition of SERB pharmaceuticals.
• Advised Webhelp on the acquisition of Direct Medica, a company of client relationship remote management in the healthcare sector from Capzanine, BNP Paribas Development.
• Advised private equity fund Bridgepoint Development Capital on the acquisition of CIR , a group specialized in the restoration of buildings, from its founders.
• Advised Quadrifolio France and Codimmo on the structuring aspects of its M€ 95 debt refinancing.
• Advised the Webhelp Group on the structuring aspects of its M€ 635 debt refinancing.
• Advised private equity fund Pragma Capital on the acquisition of IMX group, a private international mail company, from its founders.
• Advised private equity fund LBO France and its subsidiary Geoxia on the sale of Groupe INCA, specialized in the construction of houses, to Omnes Capital, GSO Capital, Bpifrance investissement, managers.
• Advised Groupe C2S, (and its majority shareholder, private equity fund Bridgepoint) private clinics operator, on the acquisition of Groupe Avenir Santé, private clinics operator, from Montefiore Investment.
• Advised Almus Capital and Mount Kellet in connection with the sale of Sofitel Le Faubourg.
• Advised Webhelp, call center operator, and its management on KKR's acquisition of Webhelp from Charterhouse.
• Advised the French Telecom group Numéricable - SFR on the structuring of its acquisition of Altice Media Group France.
• Advised the French Telecom group Numéricable - SFR on the structuring of the acquisition of Altice's stake in Next Radio TV.
• Advised the real estate company SCI Quadrans Est – indirectly controlled by Altice founder P. Drahi - on the structuring aspects of its acquisition of office premises to be leased to Next Radio TV.
• Advised private equity fund Sagard on its acquisition of Ipackchem, a leading European company specialized in plastic packaging, from Cerea Partenaire and Bpifrance.
• Advised Altice with regard to the acquisition of Cablevision Systems Corporation.
• Advising Webhelp on the structuring of the acquisition of Webhelp by the management team alongside with KKR from Charterhouse Capital Partners.
• Advised Sagard with regards to its investment in the company Les Délices des 7 Vallées.
• Advised Altice on the acquisition of Cablevision.
• Advised Altice on the signature of a strategic partnership with NextRadioTV.
• Advised LBO France on the acquisition of IKKS.
• Advised Actomezz in the takeover of the Furnotel group.
• Advised Altice on the structuring of its US$9.1 billion acquisition alongside BC Partners and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board of the US cable operator Suddenlink.
• Advised Altice on the sale of mobile shares of Outremer Telecom to Telma.
• Advised Altice Media Group on the structuring of its acquisition of Groupe Express Roularta, a major French press group whose publications include L'Express, L'Expansion, Mieux Vivre votre Argent, Lire, Studio CinéLive, L'Étudiant and Point de Vue.
• Advised Altice and Numericable-SFR on the structuring of the €3.9 billion purchase of the 20 percent stake held by Vivendi in Numericable-SFR.
• Advised Potel & Chabot in the restructuring of its debt.
• Advised Webhelp on the acquisition of SNT, a group focusing on customer relations in the Netherlands.
• Advised Altice on the structuring of its €7 billion purchase of Portugal Telecom, Portugal’s largest telecom operator, from Brazilian operator Oi.
• Advised LBO France on the acquisition of ALVEST.

2020

• The 2020 Option Droit & Affaires issue, a leading publication in France for finance professionals, granted the Paris office with a 5 star ranking for the " taxation of transactions " category, highlighting partner Olivier Parawan’s practice.
• The 2020 Décideurs magazine issue, a French media and rating agency for top executives recognized Olivier Parawan as “essential” in taxation of international groups, LBOs and transactions. He also has a “strong reputation” in transfer pricing taxation and VAT. His activity in real estate taxation is described as a “excellent”.

2019

• The 2019 Option Droit & Affaires issue, a leading publication in France for finance professionals, granted the Paris office with a 5 star ranking for the " taxation of transactions " category, highlighting partner Olivier Parawan’s practice.
• The 2020 Décideurs magazine issue, a French media and rating agency for top executives recognized Olivier Parawan as “essential” in taxation of international groups, LBOs and transactions. He also has a “strong reputation” in transfer pricing taxation and VAT. His activity in real estate taxation is described as a “excellent”.

2018

• The 2018 Décideurs magazine issue, a French media and rating agency for top executives recognized Olivier Parawan as “essential” in taxation of international groups, LBOs and transactions. He also has a “strong reputation” in transfer pricing taxation and VAT. His activity in real estate taxation is described as a “quality practice”.
• The 2018 Option Droit & Affaires issue, a leading publication in France for finance professionals, granted the Paris office with a 5 star ranking for the " taxation of transactions " category, highlighting partner Olivier Parawan’s practice.
  

2017

• The 2017 Option Droit & Affaires issue, a leading publication in France for finance professionals, granted the Paris office with a 5 star ranking for the " tax transactions " category, highlighting partner Olivier Parawan’s practice.

• The 2017 Décideurs magazine issue, a French media and rating agency for top executives recognized Olivier Parawan as “essential” in capital investment and in international groups taxation, LBOs and transactions practices. His real estate taxation practice is described as a “quality one”.

• Le Magazine des Affaires, a leading legal industry publication in France has recognized Olivier Parawan as the leading Tax practitioner in France (number of transactions).

2016

• The 2016 Option Droit & Affaires issue, a leading publication in France for finance professionals, granted the Paris office with a 5 star ranking for the " tax transactions "category, highlighting partner Olivier Parawan’s practice.
• "Olivier Parawan who is an expert of high quality." Legal 500 EMEA (2016)
• "Olivier Parawan qui est expert dans son domaine." Legal 500 Paris (2016)
• The new edition of Décideurs, a french media and rating agency for top executives has recognized Olivier Parawan as "Unavoidable" in Tax Transactions. (2016)

2015

• "Olivier Parawan produces extremely detailed work." Legal 500 EMEA (2015)
• "Olivier Parawan qui fournit un travail extrêmement détaillé" Legal 500 Paris (2015)
• The new edition of Décideurs, a french media and rating agency for top executives has recognized Olivier Parawan as "Excellent" in Tax Transactions. (2016)