Four ex-Allen & Overy partners have gone into partnership to create Bichot & Associés.
Nicolas Bichot, Patrice Couturier, Charles-Noël van den Broek and Mathieu Odet will offer private equity funds and other clients “personalised assistance… by adopting a hands-on approach for each case”, with regards to M&A transactions and tax matters.
The independent firm has set out a short-term goal of finding 20 lawyers to add to its roster, but a spokesperson could not confirm if the partners will be targeting some of their old colleagues in some of Europe’s biggest name law firms.
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Leading the charge will be Bichot who ended an 11-year stint with Allen & Overy, most recently acting as the firm’s head of corporate/M&A in its Paris office.
His deputies include Couturier, who spent 20 years as a tax specialist working across various shops including magic circle firms Slaughter & May and Allen & Overy; and van den Broek and Odet, two private equity and M&A specialists who worked alongside Bichot during their time at Allen & Overy’s Paris office.
In a statement Bichot expressed enthusiasm about the new endeavour and his reunion with Couturier who left Allen & Overy in 2009, saying “we have been working together for several years now and we are accustomed to conceptualising, structuring and closing complex operations”.
Allen & Overy was not available for comment at press time.
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