Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance hires Mathieu Remy as Partner in the Paris M&A team

International law firm Clifford Chance announced today that Mathieu Remy, a leading French M&A lawyer, is to join the Firm as a Partner in the Paris office.

Mathieu Remy, currently a Partner at Shearman & Sterling, specialises in domestic and cross-border public and private M&A, as well as Joint Ventures and Private Equity. He has experience in working for major French banks and financial institutions on M&A activity and acting for a broad spectrum of French and international corporates in particular in the power and media sectors.

Yves Wehrli, Managing Partner of Clifford Chance's Paris office commented: "Mathieu is a very gifted lawyer with excellent technical abilities and a true commitment to teamwork. We have very ambitious plans for our corporate practice in Paris and expect to see strong growth in the coming years.  We believe Mathieu will bring significant additional value to our existing client offer, in support of that ambition.  We are very pleased to welcome such a talented lawyer."

Matthew Layton, Head of the global Corporate Practice at Clifford Chance, added:  “2010 has been a successful year for our Paris M&A team. We are handling a significant proportion of the most complex and interesting work in the French market and we are confident that Mathieu will be a real asset to our large international client base. This investment in our capability, along with our other recent strategic hires in London and the US, demonstrates our intention to have the leading Corporate practice of any international law firm."

Mathieu Remy commented: “Clifford Chance has a great name in the market and I am thrilled to join a firm with such an ambitious international strategy. It is clear to me that the firm's global offer is a very strong differentiator for large multinationals which it can act for anywhere in the world."

The M&A group of Clifford Chance Paris comprises 54 fee earners including 6 Partners: Catherine Astor-Veyres, Pierre Gromnicki, Gilles Lebreton, Thierry Schoen, Laurent Schoenstein and Yves Wehrli.

Clifford Chance's Corporate practice is ranked number one in Corporate/M&A globally in Chambers Global 2011 and is top of Mergermarket's European M&A rankings for Q1 2011.