People
Charles del Valle
Biography
The primary focus of Charles' practice is the tax structuring of leveraged buyouts transactions.
He has extensive experience in the specific field of private equity, acting mainly for investment funds and also for managers of target entities, in relation to both domestic and cross-border transactions. Charles also has broad expertise in the tax structuring of infrastructure projects, notably in the energy sector.
Charles’ experience extends to mergers and acquisition and real estate projects, advising industrial groups on a large number of transfers, acquisitions and mergers of listed companies and non-listed companies, and French and foreign real-estate funds in their investment transactions.
Practice areas
- Tax
- Private equity
- M and A JVs and corporate reorganizations
- Real estate
- Corporate and M&A
Sectors
- Banks
- Private equity
- Infrastructure funds
- Private capital
- Sovereign wealth and institutional investors
- Consumer and retail
- Life sciences and healthcare
- Semiconductors
Selected experience
- PAI on the acquisition of Infra Group.
- Bolloré on the sale of Bolloré Logistics to CMA CGM.
- IDG Capital and Pathé on the sale of OL Group to Eagle Football Holdings LLC.
- Weinberg Capital Partners on their investment in JHAG alongside Cathay Capital.
- Thales on the acquisition of Cobham Aerospace Communications.
- Seven2 on the acquisition of Opteven.
- Capza, Andera and Raise on the sale of Sirsa to Thomas Bravo.
- Arcmont and another investor for their co-investment with Searchlight Capital Partners for the acquisition of Flowbird.
- Crédit Mutuel Equity on the acquisition of Frénéhard & Michaux and Altrex group.
- Andera Partners on the acquisition of ERI group.
Education
- LLM (Tax Law), Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 2011
- Master in Management - Grande Ecole programme, EDHEC Business School, Lille, 2010
- Master II, Business Law, University of Paris-Sud XI, Paris, 2010
- Institute of Business Law (Diploma), University of Panthéon-Assas Paris II, Paris, 2010
- Bachelor Law degree, University of Panthéon-Assas Paris II, Paris, 2007
Admissions
- Paris, France, 2013
- New York State, USA, 2012
Languages
- English
- French