With 22 offices in Asia, Europe and North America, Orrick offers our clients a local understanding of business and the law combined with a global perspective. In more than 100 countries, we advise financial institutions, public and private companies, emerging businesses and state and regulatory bodies on the largest and most complex corporate transactions, novel finance, litigation and tax matters.

With 19 offices throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and North America, and some 650 lawyers, Gide Loyrette Nouel is a leading international law firm, founded in Paris in 1920. For more than 90 years, the Firm has been offering legal advice and assistance across a broad spectrum of legal disciplines to businesses, public and private sector institutions and governments.

Founded in 2000, Franklin was conceived as an independent, top-quality alternative to the Paris offices of large international networks. Franklin provides its French and international clients with the expertise of over fifty lawyers whose practices cover the main areas of business law. Franklin’s manner of practicing law is designed to meet the demands of a diverse clientele comprised of French and foreign companies, public entities and international institutions.

PwC France is in charge of audit, chartered accounting and consulting missions for all types of companies. PwC privileges the sectorial approach and want to insure trust and value added for its clients. PwC with Landwell & Associés gather more than 3800 people in 24 offices. In 2009, PwC global turnover was of 26.2 Billion $ and PwC France made a turnover of 628 million euros.

Founded in 1994, Fondinvest Capital is a leading independent management company specialized in private equity funds of funds, with a particular focus on the European middle market. The firm is the oldest manager of private equity fund of funds in France and one of the oldest in Europe. Since its establishment, Fondinvest has managed in excess of €2 billion across its primary and secondary business lines, as well as a number of primary mandates.

Founded in 1934, Latham & Watkins has grown into a full-service international powerhouse with approximately 2,000 attorneys in 30 offices around the world. We have built internationally recognized practices in a wide spectrum of transactional, litigation, corporate and regulatory areas. We have also received praise for our innovative approach to law firm management and for our pro bono work both on a local and global scale.

Scotto & Associes provides legal advisory services. The firms' areas of practice include company law, commercial law, labor, tax, property, and arbitration and litigation.

Flichy Grangé Avocats is a leading employment and labour law firm, dedicated to providing assistance to companies and entrepreneurs. With more than 45 lawyers from very varied educational backgrounds and from different professional horizons, our aim is to be a real partner for company legal and human resources departments, capable of proposing pragmatic legal solutions also taking into consideration accounting, financial or commercial aspects.

With its 500 lawyers and persons in France and PricewaterhouseCoopers global network, Landwell & Associés offers its high level competencies to help its customers whatever are their problems. To be the best, Landwell & Associés uses its strong sector knowledge and its capacity of working on different levels (tax, business and labour law) with the help of the expertise of PricewaterhouseCoopers network of auditors, chartered accountant, risk and financial experts.

KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services with 140 000 professionals in more than 145 countries worldwide. KPMG in France is the leading provider of audit, accounting and advisory services. The firm provides Advisory services to listed companies, international groups, private equity houses and medium businesses. More than 30 000 trusted advisors around the world work with clients to implement innovative and sustainable solutions.

As a leading global independent provider of financial advisory and investment banking services, Duff & Phelps delivers trusted advice, principally in the areas of valuation, transactions, financial restructuring, dispute and taxation. Duff & Phelps have offices in North America, Europe and Asia.

Creativevalue is an executive search organisation totally dedicated to Private Equity Funds(small ,mid ,upper mid large and recovery ones) Creativevalue operations only focuse on buyin managers such as board members,Operating Partners,CEO,COO and CFO ‘s,who are all investors in the deals.

Crédit Mutuel - CIC is the 2nd largest retail banking network in France with a strong regional footprint and a longstanding position as a key partner for mid-cap companies. The Acquisition Finance business line is active in Paris with 40 professionals, at the regional level with 25 professionals and also in foreign branches (London, New York, Singapore). It delivers bespoke financing solutions on all types of acquisitions (LBO’s, Strategic Acquisitions,…) with a strong focus on mid-cap transactions.

Alvarez & Marsal offers turnaround and restructuring advisory, crisis and interim management, and performance improvement services to corporations, private equity sponsors, lenders and other stakeholders. Our team of consultants in Paris serves clients across various industry sectors, including consumer goods, financial services and manufacturing.

Allen & Overy is one of the largest international legal practices with approximately 4,750 staff and some 480 partners worldwide. Since opening our first office in London in 1930, we have grown into a global organisation with 39 offices in 29 countries across Europe, Asia Pacific, the US, South America and the Middle East.

AlixPartners is a global firm of senior business and consulting professionals that specializes in improving corporate financial and operational performance, executing corporate turnarounds and providing litigation consulting and forensic accounting services when it really matters – in urgent, high-impact situations.

Taj is one of the first French law firm to specialise in tax and legal strategies. We offer tax and legal services to all types of companies from all nationalities. Our firm is composed of 375 people of which 37 are partners.

Santoni & Associés is one of the best French Law firm specialised in companies in crisis, acquisition of companies in difficulty, investment funds assistance and representation and finally creditors assistance and representation.

Callisto assists management teams in the preparation, structuring and implementation of a leveraged buy-out and throughout the whole transaction. Its mission covers particularly the negotiation of the Management’s investment scheme and financial package. Callisto is an independent company, protected from any conflict of interest. As “investment banker” dedicated to the management team, Callisto is involved in transactions of all sizes.

An independent French law firm with a strong international practice De Pardieu Brocas Maffei is an independent French law firm widely recognized for its strong international practice. Established in 1993, De Pardieu Brocas Maffei has grown to a firm of 100 lawyers, including 30 partners, and ranks among the top firms in France in the principal areas of business law.

Leonardo & Co. is a privately held, leading independent European corporate finance advisory organization. It offers strong local ties and relationship networks in major European markets combined with in-depth sector expertise in globalizing industries, such as financial institutions, real estate, energy, and infrastructure.

A leader in news and business information world-wide, Dow Jones is newswires, Web sites, newspapers, newsletters, databases, magazines, radio and television. Our publications inform the discussions and decisions of the world while our databases make the business world more transparent. We develop technology to transform information into insight. From 58 countries and in a dozen languages, we inspire audiences with authoritative, differentiated and trusted content.

S&P Capital IQ is a leading provider of multi-asset class data, research and analytics to institutional investors, investment advisors and wealth managers around the world. We provide a broad suite of capabilities designed to help track performance, generate alpha, identify new trading and investment ideas, and perform risk analysis and mitigation strategies.

Skillcapital is a pan-European executive search firm that focuses exclusively on the needs of the private equity industry and other control stake financial investors. Skillcapital connects private equity firms and European business leaders. We identify, evaluate and recruit leadership teams for private equity-backed companies; and we use our sector knowledge and insight to help our clients research markets and appraise potential acquisitions.

Baker & McKenzie defined the global law firm in the 20th century, and we are redefining it to meet the challenges of the global economy in the 21st . We bring to matters the instinctively global perspective and deep market knowledge and insights of more than 3,750 locally admitted lawyers in 69 offices worldwide. We have a distinctive global way of thinking, working and behaving – "fluency" – across borders, issues and practices.

Perceva Capital is an independent investment company, focusing on weakened companies and enabling them to move forward. Perceva Capital’s investment team is very experienced in dealing with complex situations and is able to commit significant amounts of capital quickly.

Founded in 1989, FONTENAY MANAGERS is a team of experienced senior executives specialized in assisting the management of medium size companies. FM intervenes in companies with a high growth rate, or companies that are going through a crisis (turnaround, organization, management, finance…): such situations always require a rapid, profound and durable change. FM builds the improvement plan, and implements it. FM can also hold the management of the company temporarily.

Dedicated to business law, ALTANA brings together 30 highly-qualified lawyers. Acknowledged professionals, ALTANA’s partners have worked together in one of the most prestigious business law firms in France before expanding their practice to leading international firms.

VANDENBULKE is an independent boutique Luxembourg law firm highly and exclusively specialized in Corporate, Finance and Tax. It was incepted in the purest Anglo-Saxon tradition to respond to the international demand for more responsive and sophisticated legal services in Luxembourg. The firm specialization and excellence gives to VANDENBULKE a unique and unmatched position in the Luxembourg legal market for advising cross-border transactions and serving international blue-chip clients.

Oloryn Partners advises and assists management teams in situations of major change in the equity structure of their company. Our team includes four professionals who have previously held senior positions in international private equity funds, or have managed companies with market leadership positions. Since its foundation in late 2008, Oloryn Partners has advised over 20 management teams, in transactions ranging in size from €20 Million to €1 Billion.

Peplum could become your Family Travel Office. At Peplum, we handle all travel logistics for very affluent business men with a very high level of service, an absolute confidentiality and exclusive venues. For our Selected Members we fulfill all logistic needs, from simple air tickets, vip airport greeters, to sophisticated journeys across the world, included private jets, amazing villas, chalets and access to private art collections. We handle family journeys, corporate and event travel organization.

Legance is an independent full-service Italian law firm, comprising over 160 top-tier lawyers who work in the Milan and Rome offices to advise domestic and foreign clients in the most challenging transactions in Italy and in Europe.

Founded in Geneva in 1805, Pictet & Cie is today one of Switzerland's largest private banks, and one of the premier independent asset management specialists in Europe. With over EUR 300 billion in assets under management and custody at 30 June 2011, Pictet & Cie is a partnership owned and managed by eight general partners with unlimited liability for the bank's commitments.

Natixis is the corporate, investment management and financial services arm of Groupe BPCE, the second-largest banking player in France. With over 22,000 employees and offices in 68 countries, Natixis has a number of areas of first-rank recognized expertise in three core businesses: Corporate and Investment Banking, Investment Solutions (asset management, insurance, private banking, private equity) and Specialized Financial Services.

With more than 200 transactions to its credit, H.I.G. Capital is a leading investor in the mid-market segment. Its investments exclusively concern small and medium-size companies with turnover of between €30 and €500 million. Today, H.I.G. Capital manages more than €7 billion of equity capital. The group has eight affiliates worldwide, including Paris, London and Hamburg.

Regulation can be defined as a set of mechanisms, rules, institutions, decisions and principles that allow certain sectors of the economy to grow and maintain equilibriums that they could not establish solely via their own economic strength.

DealMarket is the first port of call for private equity professionals looking for simplicity, choice and greater speed in how they access the marketplace. Search for free and post deals/ads for 100$ a month. Choose to manage your internal deal flow on your own private platform using MyOffice@DealMarket.

Facing demands from clients for whom legal advice is more than just law, Stéphane Ober and Bernard Beerens created Ober & Beerens Avocats on October 1, 2010, and since that date, the firm has grown into a leading and award-winning Luxembourg practice.

We are the operational managers of strategic projects for our clients. Zalis’ value added is based upon the reduction of risk-related costs. The implementation of practical solutions thanks to our operational experience allows us to strategically guide our clients through the different phases of their development : - In a crisis : Zalis turns the rescue of the compan - In growth : Zalis helps to manage the development