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Deal Maker of the Year Awards 2013 WINNER - FREDERIC FONTAINE
DEAL: Credit Agricole Assurances and AG Real Estate acquire stake in Frey
NAME: Frederic FONTAINE COMPANY: FONTAINE MITRANI AARPI TEL: +33 144 50 16 50 FAX: +33 144 50 10 28 EMAIL: fontaine@fontaine-avocats.com
BIO
Frédéric FONTAINE is managing partner at FONTAINE MITRANI AARPI, law firm. He specializes in mergers and acquisitions, corporate law and securities law.
He mainly advises French listed or private companies as well as start up.
He has an extensive experience of capital market transactions as well as private ones.
He also handles corporate and stock exchange litigation matters and French stock market authority proceedings.
Frédéric holds a post-graduate degree (DEA) of business law from the University of Paris II Assas and a post-graduate degree (DESS) of Finance from the University of Paris Dauphine.
He attended the 10th session of the Cycle des Hautes Etudes pour le Développement Economique – CHEDE (Institute for High Studies for Economic Development) and is currently a member of the 66th session of the Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale – IHEDN (French Institute of high studies for national defence).
He was admitted to the Paris Bar in 1987. DEAL OVERVIEW
FONTAINE MITRANI acted as legal advisor of FREY SA and FIRMAMENT CAPITAL, a company owned by the chairman of FREY SA, in connection with the acquisition by Crédit Agricole Assurances and AG Real Estate of stakes in FREY SA amounting to 40% of its share capital sold by AKIR, a company owned by a member of the FREY family.
FREY SA is a fast growing commercial property company with the French tax status of Real Estate Investment Trust-REIT (SIIC). Its shares are listed on Euronext Paris.
FREY SA focuses on high architectural and environmental standards and develops a new
FIRM PROFILE
FONTAINE MITRANI is a French boutique law firm specializing in corporate finance transactions.
The corporate team of the firm advises on corporate law, mergers and acquisition, securities law, debt restructuring, real estate and real estate finance, private equity and commercial contracts. The litigation team handles matters in these practice areas.
The firm has a strong reputation and a recognized ability to handle capital market transactions involving companies listed on the Paris Stock Exchange.
Our clients are public or private companies, investment funds and investment firms mainly acting in the real estate, financial, telecoms and media, healthcare sectors, or the defence industry.
We also assist international law firms and their clients in France in connection with French securities law issues.
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FONTAINE MITRANI advised FIRMAMENT CAPITAL on the negotiation of the shareholders agreement with Crédit Agricole Assurances and AG Real Estate and any regulatory filings with the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (French Stock Market Authority). We also advised FREY SA on the corporate governance changes following the entry of the new institutional shareholders in the share capital of the company.
FONTAINE MITRANI has been advising FREY since its IPO on Euronext Paris in 2008.