White & Case advises EX NIHILO and shareholders on acquisition of stake by L Catterton

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised the Parisian luxury perfume house EX NIHILO and its shareholders on the acquisition of a leveraged stake in the business by L Catterton.

The partnership has been established following a competitive sales process and the sale by Eurazeo of its entire stake in EX NIHILO to L Catterton as part of a second LBO, with significant reinvestment by the founders and management alongside L Catterton.

L Catterton is a market-leading consumer-focused investment firm.

The White & Case team which advised on the transaction was led by partner Guillaume Vitrich (Paris) and included partners Alexandre Jaurett, Kami Haeri, Jérémie Marthan, Diane Lamarche, Brice Engel, Neeloferr Roy, Clara Hainsdorf and Orion Berg (all Paris), Nicole Erb and David Lim (both Washington, DC), Neill Blundell (London), Sara Nordin (Brussels & Stockholm), Adam Cieply, Keith Hallam, Daniel Kozin and Jane Kim (all New York) and associates Nicolas Alfonsi, Etienne Vautier, Tali Cohen-Levy, Tamila Bellache, Aurélia Orofino, Rahel Wendebourg, Valentine Jacob-Vives, Clément Bellaclas, Sid-Ahmed Chalane, Chloé Amado, Laëtitia Coguic and Clémence Flichy (all Paris), Joanna Anyanwu (Washington, DC), Emma Middleton and Ed Pearson (both London), Mats Cuvelier (Brussels) and Jacquie Smith (New York).

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