Our Paris office advised Sopra Group (NYSE Euronext: SOP) on the acquisition of HR Access, in close cooperation with the Amsterdam office. HR Access has been advised by McDermott Will & Emery (Paris and New York) and Loyens & Loeff (Amsterdam).

Sopra Group is involved in creating and advising Human Resources Management-solutions. This acquisition is in line with Sopra's 2015 strategy, which aims to solidify its position in the human resources management segment.

Sopra Group has received legal and tax advice from numerous DLA Piper teams led by the Paris office with Jérémy Scemama and Guillaume Boitel (Corporate), Stéphane Lemarchand and Sandrine Rambaud (IPT), Guillaume Valois and Géraldine Péchiné (Tax), Philippe Danesi and Eva Amor (EPB). In Amsterdam, Sopra has been advised by Daphne Bens, Paulus Merks, Manon den Boer, Pieter-Paul Terpstra, Nicole Vreeman, Diederik Schuurmans, Gabriël van Gelder, Jian-Cheng Ku and Tom Zondag.

DLA Piper teams in Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and Italy also took part in the due diligences of this transaction.

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