Bio

Pascal Bine focuses his practice on a wide variety of corporate transactions, including cross-border M&A, public M&A, capital markets and financing transactions. Mr. Bine has decades of experience advising corporations, private equity investors and financial institutions on M&A-related matters in a full range of industries around the world. Mr. Bine’s experience in French public M&A includes the representation of issuers, bidders, target companies, financial sponsors and controlling shareholders in public tender offers, including hostile or unsolicited transactions, mergers, cross-border business combinations, block trades, private placements, reorganizations of shareholding structures, minority buyouts and take-private transactions. As part of his cross-border M&A practice, Mr. Bine has acquired significant experience navigating foreign investment reviews before French authorities. His experience in this area covers both inbound M&A transactions in France and multijurisdictional M&A deals where the foreign buyer is required to obtain similar authorizations from national authorities or agencies, including the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Mr. Bine has unique experience negotiating mitigation agreements with French foreign investment authorities across a full range of industries, including defense, aeronautics, public security, telecommunications, transportation, public infrastructure, health care, IT services and technology. In the financial sector, Mr. Bine advises corporate borrowers, private equity investors and financial institutions on corporate and acquisition bank financings, both in a domestic and cross-border context. He also has been involved in several securitization and other asset-based financing transactions on the sponsor’s side. His practice also extends to capital markets transactions, representing French corporate issuers in IPOs, rights issues, and other equity and debt securities offerings. In addition to his transactional practice, Mr. Bine regularly advises French public companies, senior management, boards of directors and board committees on a wide range of corporate governance matters, including senior executive compensation, financial communication, relationships with institutional investors, shareholders’ meetings, CEO succession and strategic situations. Mr. Bine served as an auditor for the 2022-2023 national session of the IHEDN (The French Institute for Advanced Studies in National Defense).