PARTNER
Cécile Davanne-Mortreux
M&A – Private EquityCorporate - Litigation
Cécile is one of Almain’s founders.
Cécile’s practice focuses on M&A transactions, strategic partnerships and private equity. Cécile also assists clients with their disputes in these practice areas.
She works on French and cross-border transactions and advises corporate and institutional clients, SMEs, midcaps and private equity funds.
Involved alongside her clients as from the earliest stage of their projects, Cécile thus gains a complete picture of the transactions, especially as regards operational, strategic and financial challenges.
This enables her to offer pragmatic and customised legal solutions to the multiple issues to be considered in transactions entrusted to her skills and expertise.
- Advising the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations on its numerous capital growth and venture capital operations, especially in the digital sector.
- Advising a major agri-food sector company regarding its numerous sales and purchases of retail sector targets.
- Advising a major energy company on its French and cross-border strategic partnerships and acquisition transactions.
- Advising French banks on market M&A transactions.
- Advising digital service sector listed companies on various French and cross-border sale and purchase transactions.
- Advising a German investment fund on several LBO transactions in France.
- Advising a French HealthTech company on its capital raising (Series A and Series B).
- Chambers: Band 3 Corporate/M&A Mid-Market
- Legal500: Tier 4 – Mergers & Acquisitions
- Le Point – Statista :
Band 2 – Mergers & Acquisitions - ‘Option Droit & Affaires’:
Band 3 – Mergers & Acquisitions < € 200 million - ‘Option Droit & Affaires’:Band 4 – Capital Growth and LBOs < € 50 million
- “We work with Cécile Davanne-Mortreux, who demonstrates great technical expertise and mastery of M&A operations, she also has an excellent ability to understand and tackle our business challenges, which makes her a strategic partner for our M&A operations.” Legal500 2022
- « Cécile Davanne-Mortreux is talented, efficient, and very friendly.» Legal500 2024
- Cécile Davanne-Mortreux has an « exceptional legal expertise and an approach resolutely oriented towards excellence. Her keen sense of analysis, her strength of proposal, and her ability to translate complex legal issues into practical and innovative solutions guarantees her clients tailor-made protection, while strengthening competitiveness in the market. » Chambers 2026
- Cécile Davanne-Mortreux « was able to offer us relevant strategic advice, always focused on our commercial issues. She has constantly shown responsiveness, but also pugnacity, pragmatism, and commitment. » Chambers 2026
- Cécile Davanne-Mortreux « is an excellent negotiator who is able to identify and defend the salient points of a case for her client. She demonstrates excellent writing and interpersonal skills, responsiveness, and pragmatism. » Chambers 2026
Her perfect mastery of acquisitions allows her to provide expert advice that precisely guides her client towards the right choices.”
Legal500 2022
- IBA
- ADAF
- Postgraduate degree (DESS) in business and tax law from the University of Paris II – Panthéon Assas
French, English
IF YOU WEREN’T A LAWYER, WHAT WOULD YOU BE?
An architect, I love helping to find the best way to build, style and shape my client’s key projects.
A CRAZY AMBITION?
Nothing crazy, just achievable initiatives that I regularly bring to fruition!
They are highly varied in nature and the pleasure I get from all the stages leading to their completion instils me with wonderful motivation…
GOOD DEED FOR THE PLANET?
Improving public awareness in digital responsibility.
Two straightforward actions to start with: avoid unnecessary consumption and prioritise buying reborn devices.