Of Counsel
Corporate
c.leparmentier@mce-carrel.fr
MCE CARREL Paris

Céline Leparmentier has been a registered attorney at law (currently with the Paris and California Bars) since 2007. She first worked for 10 years with the French law firm Brunswick Société d’Avocats, in its Corporate – Private Equity department, where she developed strong expertise as counsel, for companies and/or their managers, and for investment funds, on private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and equity restructuring.

Working first as an independent attorney, she moved to Los Angeles in 2017, where she has since passed the California Bar Examination. She now works with company founders, shareholders, and managers, and advises them on their day-to-day corporate needs as well as on private equity transactions.

Céline joined the firm as Of Counsel in 2019.

• Advisor to companies with their day-to-day corporate needs (structuration, annual shareholders’ meetings, transfer of headquarters, change in their management, etc.)
• Implementation of an employees’ stock option plan (issuance of French “Bons de souscription de parts de créateurs d’entreprise” – BSPCE)
• Capital increases between 200K€ and 2M€ (and negotiation of the contractual documentation) to be subscribed by investment funds and/or business angels
• Advisor to scientific founders with regards to the structuration of the company meant to develop their project
• Corporate joint-venture
• Group restructuration through a contribution of shares
• Issuance of complex securities (ratchet or 2^nd instalment warrants, “French Tech Seed” convertible bonds, preferred shares)

• Corporate
• Private equity / complex securities
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Management Packages
• Group restructuring

• Corporate
• Private equity / complex securities
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Management Packages
• Group restructuring

• Paris Bar since November 2007
• California Bar since December 2021

• English
• French

• Cy Cergy Paris university, Bachelor degree as a French-Anglo-American Jurist
• University of Montpellier, Master’s Degree in criminal Business Law
• Paris Saclay University / ESCP Business School, Master’s Degree in financial markets and securities Law