Hugo Matricon

Hugo’s experience at and prior to joining Latham includes advising:

LBO

• A private equity fund on acquiring a leading European healthcare software provider
• Summit Partners and its portfolio company Doctrine, a leading player in legal AI in Europe, on acquiring Predictice, a company specializing in AI-driven legal software and databases for legal professionals
• Ardian in connection with its entry into exclusive negotiations to sell its majority stake in Artefact, a global leader in data and artificial intelligence consulting for large companies, to Cinven
• An alternative investment management group on its proposed public tender offer for a France-based provider of source-to-pay and order-to-cash management cycle solutions
• Goldman Sachs in connection with acquiring the Crystal group
• SK Capital in connection with:
  • Valtris Group’s sale of Valtris Enterprises France and Valtris Champlor, France-based rapeseed crushing, refining, and biodiesel production, to Avril Group
  • Acquiring the Seqens group
• Summit Partners in connection with acquiring and subsequently disposing of the Doctrine group
• TA Associates in connection with selling a majority stake in the Solabia group to Astorg, and the continuation of a minority stake alongside the founder’s family and management (enterprise value of €1.2 billion)
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan on selling its stake in Diot-Siaci Group, a French and European leader in corporate insurance brokerage, to Ardian

M&A

• Lhoist Group, a Belgian global leader in lime and mineral solutions, in the US$13.5 billion combination of Lhoist North America with Martin Marietta
• Vibe.co on its acquisition by Walmart
• An industrial provider of mineral solutions on the strategic combination of its North America business with an American infrastructure supply company
• Webhelp on the tax aspects of its US$4.8 billion business combination with Concentrix
• Inari Medical on its US$415 million acquisition of LimFlow
• Imerys on disposing of one of its assets to Platinum Equity Advisors
• Atos in connection with selling its Italian subsidiary Atos Italia S.p.A. to Apax Partners
• Turo in connection with acquiring Ouicar
• Ares Alternative Credit Management in connection with acquiring a portfolio of brands from Technicolor SA
• An alternative credit management firm on acquiring the trademark licensing business from a France-based developer of broadcasting technologies
• DHL Group in connection with acquiring CRYOPDP from the Cryoport Group
• PSB Industries in connection with the split of its activities and the initial public offering of its subsidiary Baïkowski
• LOV Group in connection with several internal reorganizations
• Clarins group on selling its fragrance division, including Mugler and Azzaro
• Carrefour Group on selling Rue Du Commerce
• Conforama group in relation to selling Conforama France to Mobilux, majority shareholder of BUT group

Joint Ventures

• Platinum Equity on creating Peranel, a US$5.6 billion 50/50 joint venture with Nestlé for Nestlé’s waters and premium beverages business
• TotalEnergies on creating a US$2.2 billion 50/50 joint venture headquartered in Abu Dhabi with Masdar

Capital Markets

• Apollo-managed affiliates, funds, and strategic accounts on signing an agreement to invest up to £4.5 billion in fixed-rate callable notes issued by Électricité de France (EDF) pursuant to its €50 billion EMTN program
• A pension fund manager on its investment into a France-based multinational industrial engineering group
• Française des Jeux on its IPO

Restructuring

• Ingenico on its comprehensive recapitalization
• iQera, the leading French debt collection company, on its financial restructuring

Financing

• The lenders to REDEN Solar on completing a €1.1 billion debt raise, refinancing multiple pan‑European assets and establishing a long‑term common terms platform with a diversified syndicate of more than 10 lenders
• Goldman Sachs in connection with establishing financing for Altice’s sale of a 70% stake in its data center business in France to Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners (enterprise value of €764 million)
• IK Partners in connection with financing of the acquisition of the Unither group for €534 million
• Conforama on a new financing amounting to €316 million