Our areas of expertise: Mergers & acquisitions and restructuring transactions (acquisition and disposal of companies, reorganization of groups, carve-out, mergers, etc.) Private Equity transactions (LBO, acquisitions of interests, turnarounds, etc.) Equity transactions and capital alliances, Shareholder relations, Management packages
in the setting up and close-out of partnerships and equity contribution plans.
Guidance to a group within the framework of the post carve-out disposal of a company with a department store activity;
Guidance to an investment fund in a primary LBO in the personal goods retail sector;
Guidance to a family office within the framework of the disposal of a distressed investment;
Strategic advice for the close-out of a capital-intensive partnership within a family-owned group;
Guidance to portfolio management companies in opening up their capital to industrial and financial investors.
With over 20 years of experience and a solid base of both French and Anglo-Saxon clients, Pierre-Emmanuel specialises in real estate investments, M&A and private equity.
He works alongside institutional investors (insurance companies, investment funds) as well as with legal and financial departments of industrial and service groups and property companies. He also advises wealthy families. Pierre-Emmanuel often intervenes in the setting up of partnerships between investors or between investors and managers, in various industrial, trade or service sectors and notably, hotel industry and health care, as well as partnerships between investors and real estate developers or between developers.
Legal 500 2018 says that “Pierre-Emmanuel Fonteilles gives very good, useful and valuable advice”
His clients and colleagues admire his discrete management and his efficiency in dealing in the matters in which he intervenes.
– M&A, capital investments
– Complex real estate transactions
– Implementing financial partnerships
– Creating investment vehicles (OPCI, joint-ventures, etc…)
– Implementing management packages
– Lease negotiations
Before founding Fairway, Pierre-Emmanuel founded the law firm Lefébure Fonteilles Associés in 2005 where he worked until the end of 2010. Before this, he practiced during a decade at the firms PDGB, Landwell & Associés and Lovells (in Paris and London).
– Postgraduate degree in Business Law – University Strasbourg III
– Specialization degree in Tax and Company Law, University of Montpellier and Lyon (1991)
Pierre-Emmanuel will keep on swimming, biking and running – maybe surrounded by his family – to make up for time he did not spend practicing his favorite hobbies. And as he gets tired, he will sit down before his piano, smash the keys and sing aloud for the utmost pleasure of those in his vicinity (sic).
Legal 500 2019 – Band 2 – Real Estate Section : “Pierre-Emmanuel Fonteilles has excellent analytical and negotiating skills and shows personal commitment and a smart legal approach when dealing with very complex transactions. “
Legal 500 2018 – Band 2 – Real Estate Section : Pierre-Emmanuel is described as an ‘efficient and responsive’ lawyer.
Legal 500 2017 – Band 2 – Real Estate Section : “Pierre-Emmanuel Fonteilles gives very good, useful and valuable advice”.
FAIRWAY A. A. R. P. I.
25 rue Murillo
75008 Paris