Daniel Payan Partner MAIN OFFICE: Paris Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 21-23 rue de la Ville l'Evêque 75008 Paris, France T +33 1 53 43 4504 F +33 1 40 06 9606

---

Daniel Payan is a partner in the Corporate and Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris.  Mr. Payan specializes in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance.

Mr. Payan is regularly involved in major domestic and cross-border transactions.  His M&A practice often includes complex private equity and joint venture transactions. 

Chambers Europe (2011) ranks Mr. Payan in the number 1 tier for leading individuals practicing in the area of Private Equity (High End) in France, and Options Finance/Option Droit & Affaires named him as France’s 2011 "Private Equity Lawyer of the Year."

• Represented PAI partners in its sale of French engineering company SPIE to a consortium led by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
  
  
• Represented PAI partners in the sale of its 50 percent stake in Yoplait to General Mills
  
  
• Represented Perstorp AB in its acquisition of specialty chemicals business of Rhodia SA
  
  
• Represented PAI partners in its sale of Elis GIE to Eurazeo SA.
  
  
• Represented PAI partners and the Descours family in their sale of Vivarte to Charterhouse
  
  
• Represented PAI partners in its acquisition of the roofing division of Lafarge SAS.
  
  
• Represented PAI partners in its acquisition of Sydsvenska Kemi, the holding company of Swedish specialty chemicals group Perstorp AB, from private equity house Industri Kapital.
  
  
• Represented a group of investors led by Goldman Sachs Mezzanine Partners in the sale of French auto parts distributor and repair workshop chain Autodistribution SA to private equity firm Investcorp SA.
  
  
• Represented HBI, the main shareholder of Elior, a market leader in the catering business listed on the Paris stock exchange, in preparing a proposal to selected private equity funds to invest in HBI and launch a leveraged finance tender offer to take Elior private.
  
  
• Represented PAI partners in its acquisition of AMEC’s SPIE from AMEC plc. 
  
  
• Represented Warburg Pincus in its acquisition of Tornier, a global orthopedic company based in Grenoble, France.