Corporate M&A

Anne-Hélène Le Trocquer is one of the three partners responsible for the Corporate/M&A & PE/VC practice of Squadra Avocats. Her professional practice mainly covers M&A, strategic alliances, fundraising (PE, venture/growth capital) and reorganisations. She also deals with all types of French Company law issues. Furthermore, Anne-Hélène has developed an industry-specific expertise in the Wine & Spirits industry, the luxury sector, energy transition and in the field of strategic disruptive technologies. She advises cooperatives, family offices, investment funds, numerous industrial players, as well as French and foreign credit institutions. Prior to joining Squadra, she worked in the Paris, London and New York offices of Clifford Chance where she started her career in 2003, Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, de Gaulle Fleurance & Associés as a partner from 2015, and Aramis.

• “Key Lawyer” Legal 500 EMEA 2025m Corporate and M&A
• “Leading” in Private Equity, Décideurs Juridiques
• “Highly reputed” in M&A, Leaders League 2024
• “Recommended” in Private Equity, Leaders League 2023
• “Recognized” in Best Lawyers, France, 2023

Expertise:

• Corporate Law
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• PE/Venture/Growth capital

Education:

• Management Control, Finance & Accounting Analysis postgraduate degree, ESSEC (2012)
• LLM. M&A and Contracts, NYU School of Law, USA (2009)
• French Barrister Certificate, Paris Bar School (2002)
• International Business Law and Legal Management of Business Organizations postgraduate degrees, Aix-Marseille III University (1999-2000)
• LLM. International Business legal studies, Exeter University, UK (1998)
• French Juris Doctor in Business Law, Rennes I University (1997)

Languages:

• French
• English

Squadra Avocats’ founding partner, Cataldo Cammarata, has been an attorney with the Paris Bar since 1976. He advises small and medium-sized businesses as well as major corporations on matters of business law. Amongst other things, he is involved in setting up companies with a combination of French and foreign shareholders, restructuring and evolving share capital holding. He notably deals with acquisitions, divestments, business restructuring and private equity transactions. Thanks to his international educational background, he is an expert on international business transactions. He represents French and foreign groups both in an advisory capacity and in litigation.

Awards

• “Highly Recommended” for Mergers & Acquisitions – Transactions up to €75M, Leaders League 2024
• “Highly Recommended” for Private Equity – Venture Capital, Leaders League 2025
• “Recommended” for Health, Pharma & Biotechnologies – Capital transactions, joint-ventures and corporate matters, Leaders League 2025
• Harkness Foundation award winner

Other activities

Cataldo Cammarata lectured on business law for ten years at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and Aix-Marseille Universities.
Auditor at the Institut National des Hautes Études de Sécurité (INHES – 2002) and at the Cycle des Hautes Études pour le Développement Économique (CHEDE – 2004)

Skills

• Business Law
• International Commercial Law
• White Collar
• Litigation

Education

• Master Degree (Maîtrise) in English Language, Aix-Marseille University
• Master (Maîtrise) of Law, Aix-Marseille University
• LLM Harvard law school

Languages

• French
• English
• Italian

François Lan is Squadra Avocats’ Managing Partner. He deals with Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Corporate and Restructuring matters. Besides his transactional expertise, François Lan also regularly assists clients in negotiating and drafting a broad variety of contracts and advises on numerous issues of corporate law, business law and insolvency proceedings. Prior to joining Squadra, François worked for over ten years in several American business law firms in Paris. Before qualifying as an attorney, François participated in a two-year international volunteer work programme in the United States with a NYSE Euronext listed corporation.

Awards

• “Highly Recommended” in Mergers & Acquisitions – transactions up to €75M – Leaders League 2025
• “Highly Recommended” in Private Equity – Venture Capital, Leaders League 2024
• “Band 2” in Media and Entertainment: Newspapers, France, Legal 500 2025
• “Band 2” in Press and Magazines, Paris, Legal 500 2025

Other activities

François Lan is a partner of the Réseau Entreprendre 92 network. He is also a member of the Bar Association’s Golf Club du Palais –attorneys’ champion for France in 2007 and 2008 and for Europe in 2019.
François is also a member of the association for international volunteer work programmes.

Skills

• Corporate/M&A
• Private Equity
• Corporate governance
• Insolvency
• Commercial law

Education

• Master Degree (DEA) in Business Law, Aix-Marseille University
• Master Degree (DESS) in Soft and New Technologies, Aix-Marseille University

Languages

• French
• English

Camille Mirabel-Chambaud is a partner at Squadra Avocats, specialising in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital, as well as the establishment of strategic commercial partnerships.

Camille advises both French and international groups, listed and unlisted, institutional investors, funds, SMEs and start-ups, in all sectors of activity.

Before joining Squadra in 2017, Camille worked in the Corporate/M&A departments of various French and international law firms.

• “Highly Recommended” in Private Equity – Venture Capital, Leaders League 2025
• Partner of the Réseau Entreprendre 92
• Partner of the University of Paris Dauphine’s Start-up support network
• Partner of the Digital Native Club (an association of the most successful digital brands and key e-commerce partners)

Skills

• Corporate M&A
• Private Equity
• Commercial Law

Education

• Mastère in Business Law and International Management, HEC Paris
• Master 2 Degree in Business Law, Paris-Dauphine University
• Master 1 Degree in Business Law and 1^st year Diploma of Higher Studies in Legal Management of Business Organisations, Aix-Marseille University
• Masters Degree, Copenhagen University

Languages

• French
• English

Tony Khindria has practiced law in three countries: India, England and France. Of Indian descent, he began his practice in Northern Ireland but has spent most of his career in Paris, London and New Delhi. He is fluent in French, English and Punjabi. He is a member of the High Court of Delhi and of Bombay’s Incorporated Law Society, of the Law Society of England and Wales and is also a member of the Paris Bar.
Over more than 25 years, Tony has assisted a number of multinational businesses in conducting their affairs in India, in various fields. He has an in-depth knowledge of market practices and cultural specificities both in the Western world and in India. He is regularly involved in cross-border matters between England and France, both in advisory and litigation matters.
He has also worked in the international team of Alcatel’s legal department in Paris, where he was in charge of the group’s Indian business interests.

Skills

• International commercial disputes
• Company law (French, English and Indian laws)
• Commercial law

Education

• Bachelor of Law at Kent University, United Kingdom
• Foyle College, United Kingdom

Languages

• French
• English
• Punjabi