Overview
Axelle is a Senior Managing Associate in the Corporate M&A practice of Linklaters Luxembourg, focusing on private equity transactions. She advises private equity sponsors and companies on a wide range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and the implementation of management incentive plans.
She regularly works on cross-border deals involving complex Luxembourg holding and fund structures, often coordinating multi-jurisdictional workstreams and aligning Luxembourg entities with wider transaction and fund architectures. Her experience includes advising on the structuring and financing of infrastructure investments, the creation and operation of joint venture platforms, strategic acquisitions in the financial services sector and the formation of alternative investment funds.
Axelle uses market-leading document automation and AI-assisted tools to streamline the delivery of transactions, helping clients to manage risk efficiently and meet tight deal timetables. She plays an active role in building long-term client relationships, supporting clients across the life cycle of their investments and acting as their day-to-day contact on transactions.
She joined Linklaters Luxembourg in 2018 and was promoted to Senior Managing Associate in 2026. In 2019, she spent nine months on secondment to Apollo Global Management Inc., where she worked alongside the Luxembourg team on corporate and funds matters, gaining first-hand in-house experience of transaction execution, portfolio management and investor expectations, which she brings to her client relationships at the firm.
Experience
- ARDIAN: advising on the structuring, internal financing and subsequent syndications by ARDIAN Americas Infrastructure Fund V of a 100% stake in CampusParc Management Inc., concessionaire of the Ohio State University's parking system.
- One of the largest alternative asset managers: advising on (i) the recapitalisation and restructuring of its portfolio company, a global specialty pharmaceutical company. At completion, the equity owner remained the majority owner of the Company, while the First Lien Lenders received a significant minority equity stake, in addition to the restructured first lien debt, (ii) the acquisition of a business line specialised in terminals business from a European provider of payments and transactional services, and (iii) advising this manager on the reorganisation of its joint venture with a supranational bank which owns an investment bank in Slovenia.
- A global alternative investment manager: advising on the establishment and structuration of a new Luxembourg based reserved alternative investment fund under the form of a private limited liability company with variable share capital. The Fund is a closed-ended fund established for the purpose of holding private equity investments based in Europe.
- EQT Healthcare Growth Fund: assisting on the Luxembourg corporate and structuring aspects of its acquisition of Mabtech Holding AB and its group of companies.
- A Luxembourgish bank: advising on the sale of its reinsurance captive company to another reinsurance company.
- Crédit Agricole Indosuez Wealth (Europe): assisting Indosuez Wealth Management Group, a subsidiary of French international banking group Crédit Agricole Group, in the context of the acquisition of majority stake in Degroof Petercam.
- Antin Infrastructure Partners: advising the French leading private equity fund focused on infrastructure investments, on the formation of a joint venture vehicle with Scandinavian Enviro Systems and the support of Michelin for the large-scale recycling of tires.
- Deutsche Börse Aktiengesellschaft: advising on the acquisition of Kneip Communication S.A., a leading European fund data specialist.
- European Capital Partners: advising on the set-up of the ECP’s 7th generation fund under the form of a SCA SICAV-RAIF.
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