Estelle Philippi

Estelle’s experience includes advising on transactional tax matters for:

• Astorg on acquiring a majority stake in Lebronze Alloys, a global leader in manufacturing semi-finished and finished products in technical high-performance copper and nickel alloys*
• Checkmyguest, a French technology company managing short- and medium-term rental properties, on merging with Oyo, the world’s tenth largest hotel group*LFPI Group on its investment, alongside Apheon, as a key minority investor in Haudecoeur Group, acting through a continuation fund, the Haudecoeur family, and the company’s management team, who will reinvest the capital*
• Naos Hôtel Groupe on judicial reorganization proceedings regarding the parent company and its subsidiaries, discussions with key strategic partners and creditors, and the sale of its high-end hotel assets*
• Atalian on concluding a commercial agreement for refinancing and rescheduling its entire bond debt with noteholders representing 98.46% of existing notes*
• Loulou Group, a high-end restaurant chain, along with its major shareholders and executives, on its sale to casino and hotel group Barrière*
• Apollo Funds on the sale of their 28.4% voting interest and 27.5% equity stake in Vallourec to ArcelorMittal for a total consideration of €955 million, representing 65.2 million ordinary shares at €14.64 per share*
• Cobepa, SOCOTEC’ groups majority shareholder, on its acquisition by Bpifrance and Mubadala Investment Company of a minority stake in SOCOTEC’s group’s capital*
• Mirova, a global asset management company dedicated to sustainable investing, on its €480 million investment in RP Global to accelerate pan-European renewable energy development*
• Hameur on its partnership agreement with Ardian, through which Ardian will take a majority stake in Robert Coupe and Magimix, the food processor and cooking accessories brands*
• Cobepa on acquiring a majority stake in Ascentiel Groupe, a leading digital insurance brokerage platform, from IK Partners and ISAI*
• TotalEnergies on acquiring Malaysian independent gas producer and operator SapuraOMV from OMV and Sapura*
• Senior lenders on a unitranche financing for acquiring Volpel Invest B.V., the holding company of Nomios Group, a European expert in cybersecurity and secure network services, by Keensight Capital*
• Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners on an exclusivity agreement to partner with Altice France to establish the first nationwide independent colocation provider in France through its acquisition of a 70% majority stake in UltraEdge, a newly established data center operator*
• EP Equity Investment III s.à r.l, a company controlled by businessman Daniel Kretinsky, on the signing of a lock-up agreement relating to Casino Group's financial restructuring, alongside Fimalac and Attestor, with Casino Group and some of its main creditors*
• ORPEA Group on its accelerated safeguard plan, approved by the Nanterre Specialized Commercial Court*
• Regnology Group GmbH, a portfolio company of Nordic Capital, on acquiring Invoke from private equity investors ISAI Expansion and Sagard NewGen as well as Invoke’s CEO Raphael de Talhouet*
• Funds managed by Eurazeo Investment Manager on the tax aspects of a unitranche financing for acquiring Tennaxia by Marlin Equity Partners*
• Direct lenders on more-than €500 million unitranche financing and tax aspects of acquiring Unither Pharmaceuticals by a consortium of investors*
• Mazarine Group and its chairman, founder, and main stakeholder on the tax aspects of the investment by LBO France, FG Bros, and another lifestyle private equity fund in the company's capital*
• Air Austral on the tax aspects of its restructuring, agreed in a conciliation protocol signed by Air Austral, the French state, its controlling shareholder, various public creditors, banking partners, and new investors*
• Eurazeo on the tax aspects of its £355 million investment in BMS Group, a global insurance broker headquartered in the UK, equating to 34% of the share capital of BMS*
• The Carlyle Group on the tax aspects of acquiring Tescan Orsay Holding, a leading manufacturer of electron microscopes and other high-tech scientific instruments, headquartered in the Czech Republic*
• Verallia on the tax aspects of its acquisition of Allied Glass from Sun European Partners LLP*
• Pegasus Entrepreneurs and its sponsors Tikehau Capital, Financière Agache, CEO Pierre Cuilleret, Jean-Pierre Mustier, and Diego De Giorgi on the tax aspects of de-SPACing with FL Entertainment, a global entertainment group comprising Banijay Group and Betclic Everest Group, that will result in the listing of FL Entertainment on Euronext Amsterdam*
• A syndicate of banks on the tax aspects of the admission to trading of EUROAPI on the regulated market of Euronext Paris by way of partial distribution of EUROAPI shares to Sanofi's existing shareholders*
• Korian, the leading European care services group for elderly and vulnerable people, on the tax aspects of its entry into exclusive negotiations with Colisée to sell 21 facilities and Vivalto Vie to sell 11 facilities*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham