Nicolas De Witt

Nicolas is a corporate partner who specialises in corporate transactions for listed and non-listed businesses.

He is admitted to the Bar in Paris and in New York, and has more than 20 years experience advising, private equity, funds, targets, acquirers, sellers and issuers on capital investment, merger & acquisition and securities law. Nicolas expertly guides both French and international clients through complex corporate finance transactions. He will support you with financing through venture capital, growth capital, LBO, and M&A deals. His stock exchange experience means he can advise on IPOs, rights offerings, block sales, public take overs, delisting and other regulatory issues.

He also advises buyers in acquisitions of distressed companies.

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Career

Since 2008	Partner, Taylor Wessing
2007 - 2008	Partner, Aramis Law
2001 - 2007	Associate, Skadden Arps, New York and Paris

1997 - 2000

Associate, CMS Francis Lefebre, Buenos Aires and Paris

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Publications

Regularly publishes articles in various legal magazines and books and gives lectures both in France and abroad.

Memberships & Associations

French securities law association (Association des Avocats de Droit Boursier), Treasurer

Additional languages

English

Spanish

Expertise

Sectors Consumer & retail Energy & infrastructure Financial institutions & insurance Technology, media & communications Cryptoassets, blockchain and distributed ledger technology Energy contracts Energy regulation Energy disputes Energy infrastructure/networks Renewable energy & cleantech

Experience

Early-stage tech investor Dawn Capital on its secondary purchase of shares from shareholders of Dataiku Inc.	This values Dataiku at over USD1 billion. This is one of a long line of deals that Taylor Wessing has advised Dawn Capital on having also advised Dawn Capital on its participation in the EUR 90 million funding round for European open banking platform Tink; and its participation in the £29m Series B round for natural language processing company Eigen Technologies.
Acquisition of a 90MWp solar portfolio in France	A renewable energy asset manager on its acquisition of two ground-mounted solar PV power plants in southern France. Both solar farms benefit from long-term feed-in tariffs. The total generation capacity of the plants adds up to 22 megawatt peak (MWp). Our advisory services relate to seven additional solar PV power plants. Total installed capacity adds up to 90 MWp.