Proskauer Rose has boosted its Paris office with the hire of a private equity and M&A team from Hogan Lovells led by partners Matthieu Grollemund, Hélène Parent and Pierre-Marie Boya.
Proskauer said the team’s hire reflected its commitment to advising clients across the full spectrum of the private capital lifecycle. The incoming partners advise sponsors, family offices and management teams and will join the firm’s private equity and M&A team later this month alongside a group of counsel and associates.
The team’s exit from Hogan Lovells comes ahead of its planned merger with US firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft. The deal, which is expected to go to a partners’ vote in the spring, will create the world’s fifth-largest law firm by revenue with a combined turnover of more than $3.6bn, based on their 2024 performance, and 3,100 lawyers.
The team focuses on sectors including technology, healthcare and digital assets as well as infrastructure and growth investing. Proskauer’s Paris office head, Xavier Norlain, said the group would “meaningfully elevate” the firm’s ability to support investors operating in France and internationally.
Grollemund and Parent joined Hogan Lovells from Baker McKenzie in 2021, having previously practised together at Dechert. Meanwhile, Boya moved to Hogan Lovells in 2021 from Bredin Prat, making partner at the firm at the start of last year.
Grollemund represents private equity sponsors, venture capital firms and corporations on their investments, public and private M&A transactions, IPOs and amicable or defence against hostile transactions. He is particularly known in the technology and healthcare industries.
Parent advises investors and high-growth companies across Europe, particularly in the tech, life sciences, fintech and space sectors, in high-end venture, growth equity and private equity transactions, while Boya represents private equity sponsors, venture capital firms and corporations across the investment cycle.
The trio will bring Proskauer’s partner count to 17 in Paris, the New York firm’s only international location other than London. The firm has been building steadily in Paris over the past few years, hiring a 19-lawyer corporate team led by four partners in 2023 from legacy Shearman & Sterling and since then recruiting five more partners across private funds, international investigations, tax and restructuring.
The firm has also been investing in London, particularly across leveraged finance and private capital. Last year, it recruited 11 partners according to recruitment consultancy Edwards Gibson, taking its City partner count to 60.
Another firm deepening its private capital bench in Paris recently was Ropes & Gray, which hired a 10-lawyer team from Linklaters last month, led by partners Edouard Chapellier and Jonathan Abensour. Last week, Latham & Watkins hired a four-lawyer energy and infrastructure PE team from Clifford Chance in the city.
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