Tessa PARODI DE SCHONEN
Partner
Tessa Parodi de Schonen holds a DEA in Common Law (Assas – Paris II, 2004) and an LLM in International Business and Trade Law (Fordham University - New York, 2005). She is registered with the New York Bar and the Paris Bar.
She began to practise with the private equity / mergers and acquisitions teams at the firm Orrick Rambaud Martel in 2007. She later worked with the LBO – mergers and acquisitions team at the firm Nixon Peabody, before joining Scotto & Associés in 2013, where she developed the management practice package and its financial aspects, in particular. She joined the firm Brunswick Avocats in 2017.
Tessa co-founded Altaïr Avocats on 1 January 2019.
She regularly supports company directors and business owners with start-ups, raising funds/LBOs or winding up their operations, with a particular focus on negotiating and structuring management packages. She also works with financial investors on private-equity transactions, LBOs and mergers and acquisitions, both in France and internationally.
She began to practise with the private equity / mergers and acquisitions teams at the firm Orrick Rambaud Martel in 2007. She later worked with the LBO – mergers and acquisitions team at the firm Nixon Peabody, before joining Scotto & Associés in 2013, where she developed the management practice package and its financial aspects, in particular. She joined the firm Brunswick Avocats in 2017.
Tessa co-founded Altaïr Avocats on 1 January 2019.
She regularly supports company directors and business owners with start-ups, raising funds/LBOs or winding up their operations, with a particular focus on negotiating and structuring management packages. She also works with financial investors on private-equity transactions, LBOs and mergers and acquisitions, both in France and internationally.
Languages :
- French
- English
Areas of expertise :
- Management packages
- LBO
- Capital Investment
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Corporate
Deals, Publications and Seminars :
- GEOFLEX, a well-known player in satellite hypergeolocation, raises €6 million in Series A funding from Bouygues, Stellantis Ventures, Thales and Demeter
- Advice to the management of MasterGrid on its joint investment with Andera Partners for the acquisition of manufacturing and maintenance activities for Merlin Gerin high-voltage equipment from Siemens
- Advice to the management of Télécom Services on their acquisition by Hoppen
- Advice to a leading market player on the acquisition of a British software company
- Advice to the management of Léon Vincent Overseas on its takeover by 21 Capital Partners
- Advice to the Spengler group on its merger with Holtex, to make it one of the leading French companies in the distribution/manufacture of medical equipment