Mr. Robé’s practice focuses on advising clients on international mergers and acquisitions, financing and other corporate transactions. He has wide experience, which enables him to assist clients in most aspects of the legal structuring of their business activities, both in France and abroad. He acts on a daily basis as outside corporate counsel for numerous French and foreign clients. He is a member of the Firm’s Corporate Transactions, Mergers and Acquisitions and Global Finance Practice Groups.

Mr. Robé’s experience encompasses the establishment of companies and joint ventures, assistance in the drafting and negotiation of shareholder agreements and advising on corporate governance matters. He helps clients in their M&A activities in a variety of contexts and industries: he assists foreign investors in their French investments, as well as numerous French investors in their foreign acquisitions of both public and private companies. His experience in this respect covers numerous jurisdictions in Europe, the Middle East, America and Africa. His clients include companies, banks and private equity funds.

Mr. Robé’s financing practice is twofold: he routinely advises borrowers with regards to French law in connection with acquisition financing, in particular with financial assistance prohibitions and ancillary issues. He also assists in the taking of security interests on French assets. His advice is also sought in connection with innovative financing devices. For example, he was the designer of the first industrial LBO financed in France in a Shari’ah compliant manner.

Mr. Robé has also intervened in distressed situations, advising either companies going through a restructuring process or investors purchasing distressed assets.  He recently argued successfully a case which led, for the first time, to the opening of a French Safeguard proceeding in favor of a Luxembourg holding company on the basis that its center of main interest was located at the headquarters of its French subsidiary. He frequently advises on the strategic aspects of complex court cases and accompanies French clients in connection with high profile cases in the United States.

The author and co-author of several books and articles, he has given numerous lectures on enterprise law and corporate governance, in France and Italy. He is identified as a leading lawyer for representing companies undergoing restructuring and financial distress by French publication Décideurs Stratégies Finance Droit (2009 guide).

Apart from his French mother tongue, Mr. Robé speaks English and Italian fluently.