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    Jean-Nicolas Soret
    ADVANT Altana - Paris
    Partner

    Jean-Nicolas Soret

    ADVANT Altana - Paris
    Partner

    LANGUAGES

    English / French / Spanish

    Spotlight

    Renewable Energies

    Practice Areas

    Corporate/M&A

    Sectors

    Industries - Life Sciences and Healthcare

    Contacts

    T : +33 (0)1 79 97 93 00

    jean-nicolas.soret@advant-altana.com

    Expertise

    Jean-Nicolas Soret has been practicing M&A for the past 25 years, with a particular focus on private cross-border transactions. His expertise includes acquisitions and sales of companies, strategic partnerships and joint venture agreements, divestment of non-core assets, majority and minority invest-ments, group and shareholding structure reorganizations, as well as corporate governance. 

    He has a specific focus in the high tech, biotech, renewable energy and food industries. ALDI, AIR FRANCE, LEXIS NEXIS, EUREDEN, MARSH and TUI are among his clients.

    Jean-Nicolas Soret is a member of the ADVANT board of directors and steering committee, alongside representatives from ADVANT Nctm in Italy and ADVANT Beiten in Germany. 

    He is an active member of the International Bar Association, the American Bar Association and of the French Institute of Directors (Institut Français des Administrateurs). 

    Before joining ADVANT Altana as a partner in 2010, Jean-Nicolas Soret was a partner at REED SMITH LLP. 
     

    Education

    • Graduated from ESCP Europe Business School
    • Master’s in business law and Taxation from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas

       

    Awards

    Le Point/Statista 2023
    Palmarès des Meilleurs cabinets d’avocats – Fusions & Acquisitions – 5 stars
    Legal 500 EMEA 2023
    Mergers and Acquisitions – Tier 4
    Legal 500 EMEA 2023
    Industry Focus: Healthcare & Life Sciences – Tier 1
    Best Lawyers 2024
    Reconnu depuis 2020 (Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice | Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
    Chambers Global 2023
    Mergers & Acquisitions – Corporate M&A: High-end Capability
    Chambers Europe 2023
    Mergers & Acquisitions – Corporate M&A: High-end Capability
    Best Lawyers 2025
    ADVANT Altana reconnu dans le classement Best Lawyers France

    31 avocats du cabinet ont été distingués parmi les « Best Lawyers France » dans leurs domaines d’expertise. 
    ADVANT Altana, a par ailleurs, de nouveau été désigné « Law Firm of the year » en droit de la construction.
    Félicitations à Christophe Lapp, nommé également « Lawyer of the year » dans cette spécialité

    Décideurs / Leaders League 2022
    Mergers & Acquisitions: Operations worth between 75 M€ et 500 M€ – Excellent

    Publications

    “Mergers and Acquisitions: The Impacts of an Unprecedented Crisis”
    Forbes France, April 2020

    “Foreign Direct Investment under Greater European and French Scrutiny”
    The American Lawyer, May 2018

    “Shareholder activism in France: a growing threat”
    The American Lawyer (International Focus) – January 2017
     

    Articles

    ADVANT Altana advises Eureden on the sale of La Fraîcherie
    ADVANT Altana has advised EUREDEN, a cooperative agri-food group with a turnover of almost €4 billion, on the sale of La Fraîcherie, specialised in fresh cuts and healthy snacks, to Vertu Food, a company s…
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    ALTANA advises Terre d'Avenir on the sale of nine hydroelectric power stations to Eiffage Concessions
    ALTANA advised Terre d'Avenir on the sale of nine hydroelectric power stations located in Western France to the Eiffage Group: six power stations located on the river Agout in Tarn, one power station locat…
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    Altana advises Concentus in the acquisition of control of Altor Industrie
    Altana advised the Swedish manufacturer PartGroup and its holding company Concentus on the acquisition of a majority stake in Altor Industrie, a leader in the design, manufacturing and installation of pref…
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    Altana advises Engie on the acquisition of Vol-V Biomasse
    Altana advises Engie on its acquisition of the biomethane activity of Vol-V Engie has acquired Vol-V Biomasse, the French leader in biomethane present on the entire value chain: origination, development, …
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    French foreign investment control regime extended to new sectors
    A new decree dated 29 November 2018 widened the scope of foreign investments which will be subject to prior authorization by the French Ministry of Economy to new sectors including artificial intelligence,…
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    Altana advises Albioma in the divestment of the group Methaneo to Bio Méthanisation Partenaires
    Altana and K&L Gates advised, respectively, Albioma, a listed independent producer of renewable energy (biomass and photo-voltaic power) , and Bio Méthanisation Partenaires (« BMP »), a joint subsidiary of…
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    Altana advises d’Aucy in the takeover of Saint Mamet by the investment fund Hivest Capital
    Altana advised the cooperative group d’Aucy in its strategic partnership with the investment fund Hivest Capital, at the occasion of Hivest’s takeover of the Saint Mamet group, producer of canned fruit, fr…
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    Altana advises Safe Othopaedics in its development in Japan and the United Kingdom
    Paris, 21 June 2018 Altana advised Safe Orthopaedics, a medtech listed on the Euronext, in the signing of an exclusive marketing agreement with KiSCO Co., Ltd., subsidiary of the Japanese group Otsuka M…
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    Foreign Direct Investment Under Greater European and French Scrutiny
    In an article published in the "Am Law 100" issue of American Lawyer (May 2018), Jean-Nicolas Soret and Géraldine Malfait analyze the difficult balance the French government will have to strike between pro…
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    Altana advises the shareholders of Biofides et A.R.C. Pharma in their acquisition by the Pharmalex group.
    Paris, April 24, 2018 Altana advised all of the shareholders of the French companies Biofides and A.R.C. Pharma as part of the sale of the totality of  share capital and the voting rights of Biofides an…
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    Equity Crowdfunding: A « 2.0 » Financing Mechanism at the Heart of Innovation
    In 2017, 336 million Euros were collected in France using crowdfunding , versus 167 million Euros in 2015. Jean-Nicolas Soret, Partner at Altana,  was interviwed by La Semaine Juridique on this new mode…
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    Interview BFM Business
    Jean-Nicolas Soret was interviewed by Yves Vilagines during the television program "L'entreprise BFM" about service providers or distributors investing in companies.
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    Ending Secrecy Towards Transparency: Shedding Light on French Companies’ Beneficial Owners
    In the wave of global anti-money laundering and financial transparency measures initiated with the FCPA and the Anti-Bribery Act in the US and the UK, to name a few, the ordinance n° 2016-1635 dated De…
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    Altana, Baker McKenzie and Shearman & Sterling Send Their Associates Abroad
    "As part of a global strategy, sending an associate to an foreign office or partner-firm supports law firms' business development. It also represents a true tool for talent management in a highly competiti…
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    Altana Advises Onxeo in the Divestment of Two Non-Core Oral Pathology Products to Vectans Pharma
    Paris, 22 August 2017 Altana advised Onxeo S.A. (Euronext Paris, NASDAQ Copenhagen: ONXEO), a biotechnology laboratory specializing in the development of innovative drugs for the treatment of orphan dis…
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    RED 2 GREEN (member of Grant Thornton) and ALTANA advise the Japanese group SEIKOH GIKEN with its acquisition of shares in DATA PIXEL
    Paris, 18 April 2017 - RED 2 GREEN (member of Grant Thornton) and ALTANA advised the Japanese group SEIKOH GIKEN, in the context of strengthening its stake in DATA PIXEL. Created by Loïc Cherel and bas…
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    International Bar Association : European Share for Share Deals
    Jean-Nicolas Soret was a speaker on a panel addressing the subject of "European Share for Share Deals" at the 5th European Corporate and Private M&A Conference of the International Bar Association that too…
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    Shareholder activism in France : a growing threat
    The French legal environment fosters the growth of hostile measures initiated by minority shareholders of publicly-traded companies, with the objective of influencing their strategy and governance. Jean…
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    Restructuring & M&A – ALTANA advises D’Aucy in the takeover of Duc by Plukon Food Group
    The listed group Duc, number 3 in the French meat and poultry production market, concluded an agreement at the end of 2016 with the Dutch leader Plukon Food Group, the European meat and poultry leader. …
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