Bio

Olivier De Vilmorin is Managing Partner in the Firm’s Paris office and head of the Firm’s European M&A practice. A member of the Paris and New York bars, he frequently advises both French and international clients on a wide variety of prominent mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and capital markets transactions. Olivier is regularly recognized as a leading M&A and Capital Markets lawyer in Chambers Global and Chambers Europe, where clients praise his “great mix of sharp legal expertise, great business sense and full dedication to his clients”. He is also a Leading Individual in Legal 500 (M&A, France) and is a recipient of The American Lawyer's Transatlantic Corporate Dealmaker (UK and Europe) award. The Paris M&A team also won the “Trophée d’Or” for “M&A Large Cap” at the 2022 Trophées du Droit. Olivier has authored several articles and is regularly cited as an M&A expert. He was the Rapporteur for the special report “Paris: Frontline Financial Centre for SPACS”, published by a special committee of Le Club des Juristes, France’s premier legal think tank. The French Stock Exchange Authority (AMF) has invited Olivier to join its consultative Commission on Disclosures and Corporate Finance as one of the few M&A and capital markets law experts.