Dechert LLP’s Paris office advised MarketScience France (“MarketScience”), which specializes in data-mining solutions, in connection with its fundraising and its partnership with Pentalog, a French-based information technology company operating in France and Eastern Europe. MarketScience is developing an application that will aid analysts and traders in investment decisions by compiling information from global financial markets. It will be available through Bloomberg. Pentalog’s investment in MarketScience is structured in two tranches, via the issuance of complex securities.

Dechert’s Antoine Sarailler and Xavier Leroux advised MarketScience in this transaction.