White & Case advises Groupe BPCE on acquisition of Société Générale Equipment Finance

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Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Groupe BPCE on the acquisition of the activities of Société Générale Equipment Finance (SGEF), one of the leading European providers of industrial equipment lease financing.

Following the transaction, Groupe BPCE will become the European leader of equipment financing solutions for manufacturers, dealers, vendors and corporate customers.

The transaction is subject to approval from the relevant regulatory bodies and antitrust authorities. It is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2025.

The White & Case team which advised on the transaction was led by partners Hugues Mathez, Nathalie Nègre-Eveillard and Laure Bauduret (all Paris) and included partners Alexandre Jaurett, Franck Peter, Clara Hainsdorf, Alexandre Ippolito, Emilie Rogey, Jérémie Marthan, Orion Berg (all Paris), Henning Berger, Martin Weber (both Berlin), Andreas Lischka, Sebastian Pitz, Woldemar Häring, Bodo Bender (all Frankfurt), William Fong (Hong Kong), Tim Hickman, Jeremy Duffy, Hyder Jumabhoy, Jonathan Rogers, Victoria Landsbert, Will Smith (all London), Thomas Glauden (Luxembourg & Brussels), Carlos Daroca (Madrid), Douglas Landy, Burr Eckstut (both New York), Marcin Studniarek (Warsaw), Rebecca Farrington, Paul Pittman and Farhad Jalinous (all Washington, DC), local partners Philippe Hendrickx (Brussels), Mathias Bogusch, Jochen Hoerth, Alisa Preissler (all Frankfurt) and Jakub Gubański (Warsaw), counsel Henri Bousseau (Paris), Andreas van den Eikel (Berlin), Dianne Lu (Chicago), Andreas Klein (Frankfurt), Lachlan Low (London), Angel Calleja (Madrid), Amy Yang (Shanghai), Grzegorz Jukiel and Małgorzata Paśnik (both Warsaw) and associates Léa Menaut, Coline Berthe de Pommery, Florent Giraud, Etienne Branthomme, Alexandre Ghanty, Thibault Faivre-Pierret, Corentin Traxel, Aude Boisdron, Rahel Wendebourg, Elyes Ben Dhia (all Paris), Cora Wolff, David Schoo (both Berlin), Martin Junker (Berlin & Frankfurt), Anthony Vitucci, Kiersten West (both Chicago), Angela Fleck, Marie-Christin Frowerk, Alexander Bijok, Lina Fiedler, Agmal Bahrami, Jan Ditrich, Leon Hoffeller, Konstantin Huber, Christopher Ruof (all Frankfurt), Vanessa Chui, Marvin Lau (both Hong Kong), Zarlush Zaidi, Janam Nagra, Neeraja Chemburkar, Harriet Baldwin, Victoria Delacey, Alice Parsons (all London), Lucie Rivera (Luxembourg), Laura del Olmo, Diego Hernández-Sampelayo Lara, Gracia Truan (all Madrid), Nicolò Miglio (Milan), Jessy Van Kooten (New York), Xiang Li (Shanghai), Dawid Książek, Adam Marszalek, Maciej Gac, Magdalena Bachleda-Księdzularz, Radomir Szewczuk, Małgorzata Herda, Michał Plich (all Warsaw) and Timothy Sensenig (Washington, DC).

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