White & Case advises Bourbon and Davidson Kempner Capital Management on financial and capital restructuring

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Bourbon and Davidson Kempner Capital Management on the completion of Bourbon’s financial and capital restructuring.

Under this agreement, funds managed by affiliates of Davidson Kempner Capital Management and Fortress Investment Group will enter the capital and become the majority shareholders of the Company.

Following this restructuring, Bourbon Group's financial debt reaches a ratio of less than 1.5 times EBITDA, due to the conversion of a significant portion of its debt into equity and the injection of fresh capital, enabling the Group to invest in its fleet, finance its growth strategy and support its customers in the growing offshore energy market.

The transaction, approved on 17 July 2025 by the Marseille Economic Affairs Court, marks the culmination of a comprehensive transformation plan launched one year ago.

Bourbon Group specialises in innovative and sustainable maritime services for oil, gas and wind sites.

The White & Case team which advised Bourbon was led by partners Amaury de Feydeau, Saam Golshani and Alicia Bali (all Paris) and included partners Diane Lamarche, Jérémie Marthan, Alexandre Jaurett and Orion Berg (all Paris), Ben Davies and Mark Moody (both London), Farhad Jalinous (Washington, DC), Sang I. Ji and Kathrin Schwesinger (both New York), Charles McConnell (Singapore) and Tamer Nagy (Washington, DC & Cairo), local partner Ruslana Hrischeva (Luxembourg), counsel Peter Chessick (Washington, DC), Isaac Tendler (New York) and Tommaso Tosi (Milan) and associates Gaétan de La Raudière, Victor Menu, Stanislas Marmion, Kenza Tsouli, Salomé Lecroc, Niels Ardeo-Winter, Sarah Pupin, Victoire Segard, Harsanth Sundara, Valentine Jacob-Vives, Rahel Wendebourg, Cécilia Grosjean and Louis Roussier (all Paris), Sophia Fotso (Luxembourg), Maxim Arrazola de Oñate (Brussels & Luxembourg), Valerie Seah and James Turner (both London), Francesco Balestra (Milan), Nicole Mao, Claris Saw and John Tan (all Singapore) and Timothy Sensenig (Washington, DC).

The team in Paris which advised Davidson Kempner Capital Management was led by partner Anne-Sophie Noury and included partners Hugues Racovski, Denise Diallo, Félix Thillaye, Emilie Rogey and Alexandre Ippolito and associates Julien Faure, Aliénor Huchot, Adrien Ahmadi Kermanshahani, Ismaël Najar, Chloé Bouffard, Anna Nijaradzé, Imane Lazraq, Nicolas Weissenbacher, Henri Veillon, Maïlis Pachebat and Claire Sardet.

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