EXPERTISE 

Fabrice Bouquier assists French and international clients with their strategic projects: joint ventures, shareholders' agreements, partnership agreements (franchising, licensing, etc.), build-ups, carve-outs, outsourcing, ESG/RSE strategy (decarbonisation of the value chain, duty of care). He also coordinates the firm's various departments involved in these cross-functional projects (real estate, finance, IP/IT/Data, employment law, competition, etc.). Fabrice also has extensive experience of advising Chinese industrial groups in various European jurisdictions.

He is trained in and committed to ESG issues, notably through the Sustainable Capitalism & ESG Certificate at Berkeley Law School (Nov 2020), the Certificate in Sustainable Business Strategy at Harvard Business School (Dec 2020), and the Cambridge University Certificate in Business and Climate Change: Towards Net Zero Emissions (2021)

Experience

• Advisor to a Hong Kong listed company for internal reorganization, creation of financial guarantees and cross-border M&A
• Advising an international metal processing group on its control’s transfer to an Hong Kong-based fund and negotiating French government approval for FDI in a sensitive sector.
• Advising a Chinese consortium led by a boutique and corner fashion group (listed in Shanghai and Hong Kong) on the acquisition of a French women's ready-to-wear brand from a group specialising in the distribution of clothing and shoes (advised by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Paris), subsequent reorganisation of the business and advising on pre-insolvency negotiations, including negotiations with the French government authorities
• Advising a major player in civil nuclear power in China in its acquisition of a German manufacturer of nuclear equipment in a restructuring context (advised by Pluta Rechtsanwalts GmbH and Lambrecht insolvency administrator firm). Negotiation and grant of prior governmental authorization in Germany
• Advising an international group specialising in metal processing for the acquisition of a minority stake in an Italian industrial group having important subsidiaries in France and Germany ( advised by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in Milan and Rome). Negotiation and grant of prior governmental authorization in France