EXPERTISE
Marie-Emilie advises clients in various domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisition, joint-ventures, private equity and corporate restructurings.
She leads negotiations and coordinates deal teams across multiple offices for both buy and sale-side transactions in a variety of areas including automotive, manufacturing, retail, energy and technology.
She develops a business-focused approach in assisting both industrial players, investment funds and their portfolio companies, as well as banks and financial institutions.
She has also a strong expertise in debt restructuring and bank regulatory compliance issues.
- Experience
- Advising a German based turnaround fund on a variety of acquisition and carve-out projects, including transactions in regulated sectors (aerospace and defence)
- Advising a world group specialised in consumer products on its disposal of a perfume mixing and bottling plant to a leading subcontractor in the cosmetics and pharmaceuticals fields
- Advising a British paper and packaging leader in connection with the sale of two of its French sites to an American company
- Advising a German automobile manufacturer specialized in high-performance sports cars on the acquisition of several groups of car dealers in France
- Advising one of the leaders in the Chinese women's apparel market in connection with the acquisition of a ready-to-wear French brand
- Advising a leading sports equipment and accessories company in connection with the acquisition of the worldwide activities of an American company and subsequent divestments
- Education
- Bond University, Robina, Australia, LL.M., with honors, 2013
- Université de Paris XII - UPEC, Master 2, with honors, 2011
- Université de Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, Licence, 2008
- Languages
- French (native)
- French creole (native)
- English (fluent)
- Publications
- Le dispositif anti-blanchiment est en voie de renforcement, AGEFI Hebdo, 9 April 2020 https://www.agefi.fr/news/banque-assurance/le-dispositif-anti-blanchiment-est-en-voie-de-renforcement
- Transparence et vigilance au menu de la 5e directive antiblanchiment, Editions Francis Lefebvre – La Quotidienne, 3 April 2020 https://www.efl.fr/actualites/affaires/details.html?ref=f494fa9a7-bff8-42ac-bcde-591559658a4d
- Quelles clés pour maximiser la réussite d’une opération de carve-out ? daf-mag.fr – 11 mars 2024 (https://www.daf-mag.fr/Thematique/fonction-finance-1242/gouvernance-strategie-2125/Breves/Quelles-cles-pour-maximiser-la-reussite-d-une-operation-de-456977.htm)
- Partage de la valeur, des initiatives encourageantes pour un partage enfin effectif – Focus RH – 15 mars 2024 (https://www.focusrh.com/tribunes/partage-de-la-valeur-des-initiatives-encourageantes-pour-un-partage-enfin-effectif-par-celia-gallo-et-marie-emilie-codina-35366.html)
- Testimonials/Rankings
- M&A Team ranked "FIRM TO WATCH" in the Legal 500 EMEA guide 2023
- Training
- Conferences in several universities (Sciences Po, Université Paris-Saclay)