Fabrice Veverka
Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions
Fabrice Veverka is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department in Paris. His practice focuses on M&A transactions and complex negotiations involving both listed and unlisted companies, on behalf of corporate clients and investment funds. He has been involved in a number of significant M&A transactions in the French market in recent years.
Fabrice has also been listed among the top 40 lawyers of the CAC 40 companies in Forbes Magazine in 2021-2025.
He recently contributed in the Dalloz Edition book “OPA: pratiques professionnelles et interdisciplinarité” (Public Tender Offer : Professional practices and interdisciplinarity) in which he authored a chapter on the role of the target's governance bodies in the context of a tender offer.
Experience
Fabrice began his career in 2004 at de Pardieu Brocas Maffei and later joined Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier in 2006. Prior to joining Willkie, he co-founded SLVF in 2012, which eventually merged with Viguié Schmidt in July 2017 to become Viguié Schmidt & Associés. He was seconded between 2010 and 2011 to London-based firm Macfarlanes LLP.
- Fabrice is ranked both in Chambers Global and France 2025 in Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability. Fabrice has been praised by his clients: "In addition to his great legal skills, he is involved at all moments and has perfect knowledge of all aspects of the matter;" “Fabrice definitely has great leadership skills. He was very responsive and quick, he coordinated all aspects and negotiations, and he defended our interests very well.”
- He is also recognized in The Legal 500 EMEA (2024). Clients have noted his “impeccable responsiveness, availability, technicality, whatever the complexity of the file (listed/unlisted, international, foreign rights)."
- Fabrice has been recognized by Best Lawyers 2024 for Mergers and Acquisitions.
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Atlantic Financial Group on the acquisition of Societe Generale’s majority stake in Société Générale Guinée
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Preligens, a leader in AI for aerospace and defense, in its proposed sale to Safran
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PPF Group in its acquisition of Privilège Marine, a luxury catamaran builder
- Triago, a leading private equity advisory firm, in its acquisition by Houlihan Lokey, Inc.
- Saint-Gobain in its acquisition of Adfil NV, a leading manufacturer and supplier of fibers for reinforced concrete
- Vilmorin & Cie, one of the world’s leading seed companies, in connection with the successful simplified public tender offer from Limagrain
- Briarwood Capital Partners in Keysight Technologies’ binding offer to key shareholders of the ESI Group, a French virtual prototyping software company
- eureKING, a European SPAC dedicated to bioproduction, in its business combination with Skyepharma
- Alstom on the sale of its Coradia Polyvalent platform, its Reichshoffen site and its TALENT 3 platform to the Spanish manufacturer CAF*
- Sony Music Entertainment on the merger of Deezer with SPAC I2PO, which led to the IPO of Deezer*
- Geodis in the sale of STSI to Orano*
- PPF Group in the acquisition, in consortium with Bénéteau S.A., of Dream Yacht Charter*
- Groupe Amaury in a large number of investments of strategic transactions, including in Amos Education and L’Atelier des Chefs*
- Galeries Lafayette in the setting up of a joint venture with Keys Asset Management and the subsequent sale to such joint venture of the Lyon – Bron shopping mall to implement a major real estate development project on the site*
- Aufeminin in its disposal to Groupe TF1 followed by a mandatory tender offer*
- SNCF in the sale (privatization) of STVA to CAF Group*
*Fabrice advised on these transactions prior to joining Willkie in 2022.
Credentials
Education
Columbia University, LL.M. Université Paris X - Nanterre, Maîtrise HEC Paris