Nicolas Le Guillou

Overview

Nicolas is a Partner in the Corporate/M&A practice of Linklaters Paris. He regularly advises financial sponsors, private equity houses, insurance companies and corporates on their M&A transactions, with a particular focus on energy and infrastructure sectors.

Work Highlights

Recent transactions of significance where substantial involvement can be disclosed have included, advising:

• Vauban Infrastructure Partners on its acquisition of a 20% stake in Paprec Group, the French recycling leader
• Amundi Energy Vertes on its acquisition of a 49% stake within a 250MW Sonnedix solar assets portfolio and long-term solar investment partnership
• Vauban Infrastructure Partners on the acquisition alongside MEAG of a 50% stake in the Indigo Group, the world leading car parking and individual mobility group from Ardian Infrastructure
• AXA REIM on the acquisition of Data 4 group, the leading owner and operator of data centers in Europe, from funds managed by Colony Capital
• Ardian Infrastructure on the sale of a €1BN+ portfolio of infrastructure and energy assets across Europe, including participations in LISEA (rail), Synerail (telecoms), Alicorne (road) and Kallista Energy (wind), 2i Rete Gas, Trados Road etc
• Temasek, the Singaporean investment company, in connection with its acquisition of a minority interest in the investment management company/asset manager, Tikehau Capital
• AXA Private Equity (now Ardian), its senior management, employees and other investors in the spin-off of from the AXA Group to become Ardian