Global legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright has announced today that Karine Montagut will join its Paris office as a partner in the corporate, M&A and securities team.
Karine has a wide range of corporate law experience and advises on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and refinancing, involving both domestic and international companies. She specialises in the financial institutions, media and healthcare sectors.
Karine was previously at Allen & Overy in Paris, where she was made Counsel in 2007, having joined the firm in 2001. Prior to that, Karine was as an associate at Slaughter & May between 1997 and 2001.
Senior associate Marie-Adelaïde de Fleurieu will also join the Norton Rose Fulbright team from Allen and Overy in Paris.
Martin Scott, global head of corporate, M&A and securities, Norton Rose Fulbright, comments:
“Karine is joining our sizeable global corporate, M&A and securities practice and will be focussing on the transactional side of our corporate business in Paris led by Poupak Bahamin, and working alongside partners Stéphane Sabatier and Bénédicte Denis. Her specialist knowledge of the financial institutions, media and healthcare sectors is aligned with our global strengths as a practice. I am pleased to welcome her to the practice.
Poupak Bahamin, head of Paris corporate, M&A and securities practice says:
“The arrival of Karine and her team is excellent news. It boosts our services offering in the French M&A market in several of our key sectors, including financial institutions; technology and innovation and life sciences and healthcare.”
Chambers & Partners Europe and IFLR1000 named Karine Montagut as one of the most promising lawyers in M&A in France.
Karine Montagut comments:
“I am delighted to join Norton Rose Fulbright as a partner and to give my clients the opportunity to take advantage of its impressive international network. The experience and dynamism of the teams convinced me to join the global practice. I am starting this new period of my professional life with confidence, surrounded by renowned lawyers with whom the synergies and development opportunities are clear.”
Karine Montagut is the third partner to join Norton Rose Fulbright in Paris since the beginning of the year, following on from the recent arrival of Philippe Hameau in litigation, restructuring and insolvency and Janet Butterworth in banking and finance. With more than twenty lawyers, including seven partners, the Norton Rose Fulbright corporate, M&A and securities practice is one of the most important in the Paris marketplace. It is ranked by Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 amongst the best in insurance, information technology and telecommunications, but also francophone Africa and more particularly Morocco, Tunisia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
