Gregory de Saxcé Special European Counsel MAIN OFFICE: Paris Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 21-23 rue de la Ville l'Evêque 75008 Paris, France T +33 1 53 43 4500 F +33 1 40 06 9606

Grégory de Saxcé is special European counsel in the Corporate and Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris. He specializes in private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate law matters, as well as corporate finance, including debt restructurings.

Mr.de Saxcé is fluent in English.

Mr. de Saxcé has advised on significant matters for the following clients:

• Oaktree Capital Management in the Oaktree-led financial restructuring of and investment in SGD Group, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-end glass containers for the perfume and pharmaceutical industries
  
  
• PAI on its leveraged acquisition, recapitalization and sale of Compagnie Européenne de Prévoyance
  
  
• PAI on its leveraged buyout of the roofing division of Lafarge
  
  
• Acto on its acquisition of France Thermes
  
  
• Novescia on its acquisition of the clinical pathology business of the Générale de Santé
  
  
• Arkema on the planned spinoff and divestment of its vinyl products businesses to Switzerland-based Klesch Group
  
  
• Montefiore on its leveraged acquisition of the Sofibo Group
  
  
• IK Investment Partners on its acquisition of the French food-ingredient manufacturer Savena from Azulis Capital and Céréa Capital
  
  
• Savena Group on its acquisition of the Belgian food-ingredient manufacturer Sfinc
  
  
• The Manoir Industries group and its shareholders (Fonds Partenaires-Lazard) on the negotiation of the group’s takeover by a distressed fund, Fin’Active and the full renegotiation of its debt under these circumstances
  
  
• CVC Capital Partners, the majority financial shareholder of the Almar/Jallatte Group, on the financial restructuring of the group and the exit of CVC.