Pierre-Hadrien Darriet

In recognition of his work, Mr. Darriet has been repeatedly named one of Best Lawyers’ Ones to Watch (including in its 2026 edition).

• Air France-KLM in connection with Apollo’s €500 million investment in 2023 into an operating affiliate of Air France that owns a pool of components dedicated to the airline’s engineering and maintenance activities; Apollo’s €500 million investment into an affiliate of Air France that owns engineering and maintenance assets of the airline; corporate and governance matters relating to its 2022 €2.256 billion capital increase with preferential subscription rights; and corporate and governance matters relating to the €4 billion recapitalization measures approved by the European Commission in April 2021
• SCOR SE, the fifth-largest reinsurance group worldwide and which is listed on both Euronext Paris and the SIX Swiss Exchange, in the acquisition of 5.01% of its own shares from Covéa for €252 million upon the partial exercise of the call option granted by Covéa in 2021, and the subsequent sale of these shares to BNP Paribas Cardif; in its successful defense against a €8.3 billion unsolicited takeover proposal from Covéa, a French mutual insurance group and the largest shareholder of SCOR SE; and in connection with its defense against claims made by activist fund CIAM
• Westfield Corporation, an international retail property group, in connection with its US$24.7 billion business combination with Unibail-Rodamco, Europe’s largest listed commercial property company, through Australian law schemes of arrangement and a stapling of the shares of Unibail-Rodamco with the shares of a Dutch subsidiary. This stapled security structure, which included the shares of a publicly traded French company, was a first under French law
• Iliad, a listed telecom group and parent company of French telecom company Free, in connection with the acquisition of a 75% stake in Jaguar Network, a leading developer of technologies for the cloud, telecom and smart cities markets in France
• L’Occitane International S.A., a global luxury cosmetics group based in Europe and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, in connection with its proposed acquisition of the Elemis Group for US$900 million, as well as on the financing of the acquisition
• Renault in connection with its agreements with Nissan regarding the rebalanced cross-shareholding between the two companies (including the transfer by Renault of 28.4% of Nissan shares into a French trust), the reinforcement of the Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance’s governance and the investment agreement of Nissan, as strategic investor, in Ampere; its proposed (but withdrawn) €32.6 billion 50/50 merger transaction with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles; and additional matters relating to the Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance
• Daimler in its disposals of certain dealerships in France in connection with the company’s strategic plan for its distribution network
• the Beaufour family’s trust in connection with the reorganization of the controlling shareholding structure of Ipsen, a French publicly listed pharmaceutical company
• Silver Lake Partners in its €275 million term loan B and revolving credit facilities in connection with its acquisition of Groupe Meilleurtaux, a leading French online and mobile financial services provider; and in connection with the financing of its acquisition of Silae SAS, a cloud-based payroll and HR software specialist