Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Languages

• English
• French

Lawyer Overview

Robert Mayo has a broad-based corporate practice that is concentrated in the area of commercial contracts and M&A. In this regard he drafts and negotiates supply agreements; agency, distributorship, transport, and service agreements; and technology license and maintenance agreements and also counsels clients in general and prelitigation analysis of these same relationships. He recently advised a household name company with its exit from a French law investment vehicle. He acts for buyers and sellers in cross-boarder M&A transactions and also handles restructuring transactions and corporate governance and housekeeping matters. Robert has advised clients on SEC and other U.S. regulatory investment matters.

Representative clients include the following companies and/or their subsidiaries: Diebold, The Timken Company, ERICO International Company, Allegheny Technologies, STERIS Corporation, and La Poste Française.

Areas of Practice

• Capital Markets
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• M&A

Representative Cases

• Acquisition of Equant
• Acquisition of Ranbaxy Laboratories
• Block Trade Sale
• European Investment
• Initial Public Offering by Metabolic Explorer
• Joint Venture with Raisio Chemicals
• Public Offering and Regulation S Convertible Bond Offering
• Public Offering and Regulation S Notes Offering
• Rights Issue , (2009)
• Rights Offering by NeuroSearch A/S
• Rule 144A and Regulation S Share Offering
• Sale of Interest in Latexia Joint Venture
• Senior Secured Notes

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Joint Ventures, Limited Liability Companies, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Reorganizations, Shareholders' Rights, Trade Associations

Bar Admissions

• California
• Paris, France

Education

• U of California - Hastings
• U of Grenoble - France

Published Works

• France Revises its Rules for Reporting Large Shareholdings in Listed Companies, 2009

Address

120, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
75008 Paris 75008, France

Phones

33.1.56.59.46.92 (Business Phone)

Faxes

33.1.56.59.39.38 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com