Nicolas De Witt

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Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa, 2025

Corporate and M&A

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.

Over the past 10 years, we've built a trusted legal team in San Francisco, focused on technology, media and communciation, life sciences and healthcare, real estate, private wealth, and private equity. Supported by colleagues in the UK and Europe, we also offer deep expertise in M&A, international growth, commercial deals, and data privacy.

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CV

Since 2008 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2007 - 2008 Partner, Aramis Law

2001 - 2007 Associate, Skadden Arps, New York and Paris

Career

Since 2008 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2007 - 2008 Partner, Aramis Law

2001 - 2007 Associate, Skadden Arps, New York and Paris

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

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Awards

Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa, 2025

Featured

Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa, 2025

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.

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Nicolas De Witt