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About
Provided by Eduardo Fernandez
Practice Areas
Eduardo Fernandez is a partner in Willkie's Corporate & Financial Services Department and is a Managing Partner of the Paris office. Eduardo focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. He is co-head of Willkie's European Committee and co-managing partner of Willkie's Paris office.
A native New Yorker, Eduardo commenced his career as an associate in Willkie's New York office. He is fluent in English, French and Spanish.
Eduardo regularly represents some of Europe's most prominent private equity sponsors on leveraged buy-outs (LBO), leveraged recapitalizations, late stage growth capital investments and distressed M&A opportunities and has acted on several of the most prominent LBO and growth capital transactions in recent years on the French market.
Eduardo has extensive experience advising both privately held and publicly listed companies on French domestic and cross border acquisitions and dispositions in a broad range of industries, including in the business services, consumer products, food and healthcare sectors. Eduardo also advises on corporate venture investments and strategic alliances.
Chambers Review
Europe
Eduardo Fernandez represents a clientele of investment and private equity firms in acquisitions and disposals. He is active across a wide range of sectors, including healthcare, IT and food and drinks.
Eduardo Fernandez advises on cross-border sales and acquisitions. He is active across the technology and food industries.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Eduardo Fernandez is intelligent, insightful and very relatable. He is the best deal attorney with whom I have worked."
"Eduardo Fernandez is the partner you want by your side."
"He is really easy to work with but also pretty technical and knows the market very well."
"Eduardo Fernandez is outstanding, very international, very accurate and very capable in delivering deals to the end."
"He is an excellent lawyer technically, very deal-oriented, knows what is key and very didactic with other parties."
"Eduardo Fernandez is intelligent, insightful and very relatable. He is the best deal attorney with whom I have worked."
"Eduardo Fernandez is the partner you want by your side."
"He is really easy to work with but also pretty technical and knows the market very well."
"Eduardo Fernandez is outstanding, very international, very accurate and very capable in delivering deals to the end."
"He is an excellent lawyer technically, very deal-oriented, knows what is key and very didactic with other parties."