Bio

Eduardo Fernandez is a partner in Willkie's Corporate & Financial Services Department and Managing Partner of the Paris office. Eduardo focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. A native New Yorker, Eduardo commenced his career as an associate in Willkie's New York office and has been based in Willkie’s Paris office for over 25 years. Eduardo has extensive experience advising European companies on cross border M&A (notably involving North American targets or acquirers). He regularly represents some of Europe's most prominent private equity sponsors and other capital providers on leveraged buy-outs, non-control investments, hybrid capital investments and late stage growth capital investments and has acted on several of the most prominent LBO and growth capital transactions in recent years on the French market. Eduardo also advises family-owned professional long term investors on a variety of matters.