Yann Payen

Yann Payen specialises in corporate law and has over a decade of experience in advising clients on group restructurings, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, bond issues, and private equity markets transactions, acting as either the investor’s or the seller’s representative.

• Assisting Schneider Electric with the merger by absorption of two of its Luxembourg financing entities (EUR 630 Million).
• Assisting with the divestment of the shares in Centralis to CBPE Capital (CBPE), a private equity fund dedicated to middle market businesses.
• Assisting Manuloc with the structuring and strengthening of its airport logistic services activities following its joint venture with a French company specialising in the airport industry (G3S) (EUR 15 Million).
• Assisting a leading global airline catering, retail onboard and equipment solutions provider with the acquisition of a subsidiary of a leading German airline and a leading global provider of airline catering covering the complete portfolio of in-flight services. 

• Corporate Law
• Capital markets
• M&A
• Private equity
• Restructuring and insolvency

• Consumer goods and services
• Financial services
• Food and beverage
• Start-ups
• Tech and telecoms

• Association of Luxembourg Compliance Officers (ALCO)
• Luxembourg Association of Banking Lawyers (ALJB)

• Postgraduate Degree (DEA) in International Economic Law 
• LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law, UCL and Queen Mary Consortium (United Kingdom)
• Master’s Degree in Business Law, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (France)
• Master’s Degree in International Economic Law, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (France)