BDGS Associés

Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Law

Partner specialising in corporate governance and transactions involving listed companies, including takeovers and equity capital markets transactions.

Recent work includes advising: Crédit Agricole Assurances (Predica) on the 1.5-billion-euro action plan adopted by Clariane to strengthen its financial structure with the support of Predica in its capacity as key shareholder, on its participation in a 850-million-euro Series C capital injection in Verkor, a company specialized in EV batteries, on its acquisition of a minority stake of 30% in Innergex in France, and on the reorganisation within Group Crédit Agricole of its retirement business with the creation of Crédit Agricole Assurances Retraite; and Groupe Canal+ on the acquisition from Orange of the OCS pay-TV package and its film and series co-production subsidiary, Orange Studio.

Before joining BDGS Associés in 2013, François Baylion was an associate at Gide Loyrette Nouel where he started his career in 2009. He became partner at BDGS Associés in 2019.

French and English

Contributor of various French corporate law guides for Practical Law (Thomson Reuters).

Paris Bar (2010) Postgraduate diploma in law and management from HEC Paris (2008) Master’s degree in business law from the University of Versailles (2006)