RLF Avocats

Corporate and financial

M&A/private equity

  • acquisitions in France for PE funds
  • acquisition of French assets of Oxbow Activated Carbon (now Puragen Activated Carbon)
  • strategic acquisition in France for a US financial-sector group
  • Lumos Capital Group (lead investor) growth-equity investment in Open Classrooms
  • strategic acquisition in the US for a reinsurer
  • sale of a supplier for medical research
  • strategic sale for BPCE Vie (Natixis group)
  • successive rounds of PE investment in a startup

Regulated activities and relations with regulatory authorities

  • licencing of ECSPs (European Crowdfunding Service Providers)
  • relations with the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF)
  • approval by the ACPR of the transfer of an insurance portfolio

Company law

  • company formation
  • shareholder agreements
  • ESG reporting obligations
  • establishing US operations
  • reorganization of group subsidiaries

Securities issuances

  • private placements
  • securities backed by diverse assets: real estate, EU emissions quotas (EUAs), collectables, discrete revenue streams
  • SAFE/BSA AIR
  • cat bond (Hexagon Re)

Finance

  • factoring
  • transfers of Madoff-related claims
  • participating loans
  • bank financing with participations
  • finance of excess reinsurance reserves