Leading Advisers in France
Nova Partners is a law firm based in Marseille, France, specializing in
corporate finance matters, specifically corporate financing, LBO, private
equity, restructuring and M&A. We speak to Olivier Nett who talks us
through the firm’s work and provides us with a fascinating insight into their
role in the corporate market.
Nova Partners works throughout the corporate sector
in France and internationally, dealing particularly with
highly complex matters and value added transactions,
both on a domestic and on an international scale.
The members of Nova Partners, recruited from
some of the best international law firms, bring their
know-how, multidisciplinary legal expertise, practice
and experience to serve their clients’ financial and
commercial interests, by taking an extremely strong
business approach. Nova Partners is a member of MSI
Global Alliance (MSI), a top ranked multidisciplinary
and international association with over 240 independent
member firms in more than 100 countries around the
world. The MSI membership enables Nova Partners to
propose a very efficient global reach to its clients.
Company: Nova Partners
Name: Olivier Nett
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.novapartners.fr
Address: 42A, rue Montgrand,
Marseille - France
Telephone: +33(0)4 84 25 35 67
In addition to our technical legal work we really
behave as business partners. As such we act as
problem finders and problem solvers, we assist our
clients to define the best strategies and ultimately
we foster business contacts and negotiate in a deal
maker relationship to ensure our continued success.
Our clients are varied. We work for many investment
funds, banks and corporations across a variety of
sectors.
For example during FY2015, we have conducted
legal, tax and social due diligences on a group of 12
companies (EUR 80.000.000 of turnover) including
foreign subsidiaries, on behalf of three leading private
equity investment funds.
One specific example is our work advising a bank
within a cross-border M&A transaction (purchase price:
EUR 470.000.000) for the structuring and the follow-up
of three escrow accounts. Another key transaction we
participated in was when we advised an international
group to structure two joint-ventures in Africa.
In order to ensure our clients receive a top quality
service we always focus on efficiency, quick delivery
and value added advice. Clients admire our firm’s
straightforward attitude and efficiency, which is why
they choose us to act as their business partners.
Additionally, we work hard to ensure we are at the
forefront of emerging developments across the
business landscape by always seeking out the latest
news and information. Because we have built such
strong relationships with our clients we are able to
utilise them to obtain the most relevant and up to
date knowledge of industry trends, which we pass on
to our client and draw on in every aspect of our work.
As a firm we have chosen the region of Marseille in
France to develop our business at a national and
international scale, as it is a growing strategical business
marketplace which will offer many opportunities in the
future. We offer the same quality and service range
as Paris based firms but with the added advantage of
our global reach, which is founded on our network of
industry contacts and our MSI membership.
Moving forward we are keen to develop our practice
in cross border transactions, as we believe this will
be a growing trend in the future. Alongside this, we
will continue to work hard to deliver the best services
to our clients, improve our business, and have a
positive outlook for the year ahead.
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