Alexandre Chagneau

Before joining K&S:

• Advised Charterhouse Capital Partners on the structuring of the sale by the Charterhouse funds and management of their stake in the Sagemcom group, world leader in broadband communications and energy solutions, to a new continuation fund created and owned by Charterhouse (2023).
• Advised Montefiore Investment and Gandi in the sale of Gandi, a French domain name registrar,web hosting company and provider of email and SSL certificates, to the pan-European company TotalWebhosting Solutions (TWS) (2023).
• Advised CVC Capital Partners on the structuring of its minority investment in the capital of the commercial company created by France's Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) (2022).
• Advised the Grape Hospitality hotel platform on its mortgage facility extension related to its 86 hotels owned and operated in France and 6 other European countries (2022).
• Advised Eight Advisory in relation to the reorganization of its capital following the acquisition of a minority stake of Sienna Investment Managers in Eight Advisory (2022).
• Advised Bridgepoint on the acquisition of a majority stake in CAST and the launch of a mandatory simplified tender offer to acquire the remaining CAST shares (2022).
• Advised Charterhouse Capital Partners on the structuring aspects of the sale of a majority stake in the Cooper Consumer Health Group, a leading European independent over-the-counter (OTC) drug manufacturer and distributor, to CVC Capital Partners Fund VII and reinvestment in its next stage of growth (2021).
• Advised the SERB group and its majority shareholder (Charterhouse Capital Partners) in connection with (i) the structuring of its acquisition of BTG International Healthcare group from Boston Scientific Corporation, (ii) the refinancing of its existing debt and (iii) the reinvestment of current shareholders and the entry of new minority investors (Mérieux and Partners Group) into the group (2020).
• Advised the KKR funds and Webhelp, a leading provider of customer experience and business process outsourcing, on the sale of Webhelp to Group Bruxelles Lambert (GBL) (2019).

Alexandre Chagneau is a counsel in the firm’s tax practice and based in our Paris office.

He has extensive experience advising private equity clients on the tax aspects of their LBO transactions (including tax due diligence and structuring) as well as multinational groups on the tax aspects of their domestic and cross-border acquisitions, financing, mergers and reorganizations.

He also assists top executives and management teams on management investment structuring aspects and corporate clients on their day-to-day tax matters (tax audit, tax consolidation, reporting tools, tax planning, transfer pricing, etc.).