Proskauer Chair Steve Ellis and M&A co-head Steven Davis speak with AmLaw on the arrival of market leading transactional team in Paris and international growth of the Firm.

Proskauer Rose, long a powerful player in the private funds and credit arena, has bulked up those capabilities in its Paris office, bringing on four partners from Shearman & Sterling and positioning itself to take advantage of the increase in corporate activity in France.

The four corporate partners are Xavier Norlain, Jeremy Scemama, Maud Manon and Matthieu Lampel. All of the attorneys have specialties that center around leveraged finance, M&A, direct lending and restructuring.

“If you look at who our clients are, they are global entities,” Steve Ellis, chair of Proskauer, said in an interview. “They are looking at transactions everywhere, and we need to support them. We will be doing local transactions, but this is very much a play to integrate across the firm.”

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