Fabrice Veverka

Fabrice began his career in 2004 at de Pardieu Brocas Maffei and later joined Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier in 2006. Prior to joining Willkie, he co-founded SLVF in 2012, which eventually merged with Viguié Schmidt in July 2017 to become Viguié Schmidt & Associés. He was seconded between 2010 and 2011 to London-based firm Macfarlanes LLP. 

• Fabrice is ranked both in Chambers Global and Europe (France) 2024 in Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability. Fabrice has been praised by his clients: "In addition to his great legal skills, he is involved at all moments and has perfect knowledge of all aspects of the matter;" "He is very good at representing his clients and getting the best for them."
• He is also recognized in The Legal 500 EMEA (2024). Clients have noted his “impeccable responsiveness, availability, technicality, whatever the complexity of the file (listed/unlisted, international, foreign rights)."
• Fabrice has been recognized by Best Lawyers 2024 for Mergers and Acquisitions.

• Atlantic Financial Group on the acquisition of Societe Generale’s majority stake in Société Générale Guinée

• Preligens, a leader in AI for aerospace and defense, in its proposed sale to Safran

• PPF Group in its acquisition of Privilège Marine, a luxury catamaran builder 

• Triago, a leading private equity advisory firm, in its acquisition by Houlihan Lokey, Inc.
• Saint-Gobain in its acquisition of Adfil NV, a leading manufacturer and supplier of fibers for reinforced concrete
• Vilmorin & Cie, one of the world’s leading seed companies, in connection with the successful simplified public tender offer from Limagrain
• Briarwood Capital Partners in Keysight Technologies’ binding offer to key shareholders of the ESI Group, a French virtual prototyping software company 
• eureKING, a European SPAC dedicated to bioproduction, in its business combination with Skyepharma
• Alstom on the sale of its Coradia Polyvalent platform, its Reichshoffen site and its TALENT 3 platform to the Spanish manufacturer CAF*
• Sony Music Entertainment on the merger of Deezer with SPAC I2PO, which led to the IPO of Deezer*
• Geodis in the sale of STSI to Orano*
• PPF Group in the acquisition, in consortium with Bénéteau S.A., of Dream Yacht Charter*
• Groupe Amaury in a large number of investments of strategic transactions, including in Amos Education and L’Atelier des Chefs*
• Galeries Lafayette in the setting up of a joint venture with Keys Asset Management and the subsequent sale to such joint venture of the Lyon – Bron shopping mall to implement a major real estate development project on the site*
• Aufeminin in its disposal to Groupe TF1 followed by a mandatory tender offer*
• SNCF in the sale (privatization) of STVA to CAF Group*

*Fabrice advised on these transactions prior to joining Willkie in 2022.