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Nicolas De Witt

Nicolas De Witt

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Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa, 2025

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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.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Venture capital
Private equity
Corporate/M&A & capital markets
Projects, energy & infrastructure
Joint ventures
Equity capital markets
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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
Our USA offering

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
1997 - 2000 Associate, CMS Francis Lefebre, Buenos Aires and Paris

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

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

Awards

Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa, 2025

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Corporate and M&A

Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa, 2025

Private equity: venture & growth capital

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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