Guillaume Goubeaux

Mr. Goubeaux’s experience covers a broad range of sectors, including infrastructure, energy, real estate and financial institutions.

His experience includes representing:

• Air France-KLM in connection with:
  • Apollo’s investment of €1.5 billion into an ad hoc affiliate of Air France-KLM that operates the miles issuance activity of the Flying Blue loyalty program
  • its strategic global air cargo partnership with CMA CGM
  • Apollo’s €500 million investment in 2022 into an affiliate of Air France that owns a pool of spare engines dedicated to the airline’s engineering and maintenance activities
  • corporate and governance matters relating to its 2022 €2.256 billion capital increase with preferential subscription rights and the €4 billion recapitalization measures approved by the European Commission in April 2021
• LVMH in its strategic partnership with Accor regarding Orient Express
• Criteo S.A. in connection with its acquisition of shares and assets of the IPONWEB group
• Renault SA in its proposed but terminated €32.6 billion merger with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
• Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. in its US$1.4 billion sale of zColo, including certain U.S. and European data center assets, to DataBank, Ltd.
• Coty Inc. in its strategic partnership with KKR, including the carve-out sale of 60% of its professional beauty and retail hair businesses to KKR. This transaction was named Private Equity Deal of the Year for the Americas by IFLR at its Americas Awards
• SCOR SE in several transactions, including related to its successful defense against a €8.3 billion unsolicited takeover proposal from Covéa
• Cardinal Health, Inc. in the US$1 billion sale of its Cordis business to Hellman & Friedman, LLC

Mr. Goubeaux joined Skadden’s Paris office as counsel after having previously worked for 15 years at another international law firm.