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Florence Haas, Partner, is a member of the Corporate team. She specialises in mergers and acquisitions and private equity, assisting French and international corporate clients in connection with market consolidation transactions, public takeovers and LBOs.
Florence Haas joined Bredin Prat in 2005 and was seconded to Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York from 2008 to 2009.
Admitted to the Paris Bar (2005), Florence is a graduate of the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas (Magistère de juriste d’affaires/DESS/DJCE in business law, 2003).
Recognised as "Young Leader" by the French-American Foundation – France, 2021
“Florence Haas is lauded for her straightforward counsel and for her ‘no-nonsense approach and her deep knowledge of the subject matters’. ‘She is extremely smart and practical’.”
“She is praised for her market knowledge and business-oriented approach.”
Chambers Europe, 2020-2021
“Florence Haas is ‘very diligent, technically precise, amazing work ethic.’ ‘She has an excellent knowledge of the market. She is very solution-oriented and business-oriented in approach. Excellent at managing opposing counsel. Relentless efforts to find common ground and help to get the deal done.’”
Recognised as “Next Generation Lawyer” in Private Equity: LBO
The Legal 500 EMEA, 2020-2021
Recognised as “Lawyer of the year” in Private Equity
Option Droit et Affaires, 2020
“Notable Practitioner” in Private Equity and M&A
IFLR1000, 2020
Florence has recently advised:
KKR in connection with (i) the tender offer launched by Devoteam's founders and KKR on Devoteam, and (ii) the tender offer launched on Mediawan by a consortium comprising Mediawan's founders, KKR and Mutuelle d’Assurances du Corps de Santé Français (MACSF)
Eurazeo in connection with its agreement with Croda, a leading UK Specialty Chemicals player for the sale of its stake in Iberchem, a Fragrances and Flavours Spanish company
Eurazeo PME on the signature of an exclusive agreement to acquire Altaïr Group
Iliad in connection with (i) a public tender offer on the Polish telecom operator Play, (ii) the share buyback offer (“OPRA”), (iii) its strategic partnership deal with InfraVia, a French private equity firm specialized in infrastructure, through the sale of 51% of Investissements dans la Fibre des Territoires to InfraVia, and (iv) the sale of a part of its telecommunications towers in France and in Italy to the Spanish company Cellnex
TransDigm Group Inc, a leading global designer, producer and supplier of highly engineered aircraft components, on the French aspects of the sale of Souriau-Sunbank Connection Technologies to Eaton Corporation
Bain Capital Private Equity on the acquisition of a majority stake in Maesa, a global beauty brand incubator
Five Arrows Principal Investments (FAPI) in connection with the purchase of a minority stake in the capital of the Socotec group, majority owned by Cobepa, by the US fund Clayton, Dubilier & Rice from Five Arrows Principal Investments (holding 20% of its capital) and BIP Investment Partners (holding 10% of its capital)
