Roland Montfort Bio

Roland is a partner in the M&A and Corporate Finance group in our Paris office, where he advises French and multinational companies on their domestic and cross-border transactions. He is licensed by the Paris, Brussels and New York bars. Roland has significant experience in the structuring, negotiation and implementation of M&A and corporate transactions, joint ventures, corporate financing, restructuring schemes, multi-country business reorganization as well as carve-outs and spin-offs. He has led deals for clients active in various business sectors including aerospace & defense, automotive, food & agribusiness other heavy industries, TMT (technology, media and telecom), health care and life sciences. His clients range from large to mid-cap and small enterprises, financial institutions and investment funds. Roland also has extensive experience in advising clients on commercial contracts, including a variety of supply chain legal issues whether at the drafting, negotiation or implementation stages. He is praised by his US industrial clients for his advice and counsel regarding their French operations. Furthermore, Roland is a regular author of articles on legal issues in the defense industry. In relation to ESG, Roland is involved in French and EU ESG reporting and due diligence requirements (including the Non-Financial Reporting Directive, Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive/Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation and EU Taxonomy). He regularly advises large US and UK-based corporate clients. Further, he provides ESG training programs to clients, including from a supply/value chain perspective. His team is also engaged in regulatory mapping across the EU, with regular connections with our firm's US, UK and German legal teams. Roland is listed as "Notable Practitioner" in the Chambers and Partners Crisis & Risk Management Guide: Global-wide: 2025 for ESG Risk (Law Firms). Roland began his legal career at the global US law firms, Coudert Brothers and Weil Gotshal, before becoming head of the M&A practice at Lefèvre Pelletier & Associés, then managing partner at Morgan Lewis. Before joining BCLP, he spent 7 years at EY Law, as one of the transaction law leaders for Europe West and global lead for Consumer Products & Retail. Roland has also been seconded to Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan in 1996-1997 and led the EY Law US Central desk from Chicago in 1999-2020.