Emmanuel Moulin

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Founding and Managing Partner

Expertise

Corporate / M&A – Tax – Private Equity / Finance
Litigation – Arbitration
International
Ecological transition – Sustainable development

Biography

For more than 30 years, Emmanuel Moulin has advised French and international companies on their strategic transactions, including acquisitions, restructurings of family-owned groups and international expansion projects. He provides upstream guidance on the legal and tax structuring of transactions and supports his clients through to completion.

Emmanuel has significant experience in cross-border work. He operates regularly in the United States, Spain, Italy and Japan. He previously headed the Vietnam and Mexico offices of his former firm and remains closely involved in these jurisdictions. He assists entrepreneurs and corporate groups at every stage of their international development, with a strong command of cultural nuances and complex legal environments.

He also advises international family offices and private clients (HNWIs) on the management, structuring and transmission of their assets, as well as on maintaining family balance, including in contentious situations. In this context, he has developed particular expertise acting for international professional athletes, agents, artists, designers and figures from the entertainment industry.

Emmanuel acts in the resolution of domestic and international disputes. He advises on strategy and represents clients before French and foreign courts. He is regularly instructed in high-stakes, complex disputes involving multiple parties, jurisdictions or international interests.

His arbitration practice covers both commercial and investment arbitration. He has acted in proceedings conducted under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

While he works across a broad range of industries, he has notable experience in structuring transactions and managing strategic disputes for leading French and international players in the food service, furniture and luxury sectors, as well as real estate development and construction, involving governance, shareholding and contractual performance issues.

Emmanuel plays a central role in the firm’s strategy on ecological transition and sustainable development. He was one of the driving forces behind MMlaw’s decision to join the United Nations Global Compact in 2012 and continues to advance this commitment through his professional engagements.

He is also Honorary Chairman of the Alliance of Business Lawyers (ABL), an organisation he chaired from 2010 to 2020, bringing together more than 50 law firms worldwide.

Emmanuel founded Miguérès Moulin in 2010.

Academic background

1993 – CAPA, EFB
1992 – MBA, Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Paris
1990 – Master’s Degree in Business Law, University of Montpellier

Professional career

Since 2010 – Founding and Managing Partner, Miguérès Moulin (MMlaw)

Languages

French
English
Spanish

Recent experience

Corporate / M&A – Tax – Private Equity / Finance

Advising the TALEK group on the sale of its 50% stake in its Washington DC industrial site (Bakery de France), dedicated to the production and distribution of bakery products for the US market, to a major Europe-based industrial manufacturer.
Advising an international airport-services operator in connection with a strategic capital increase enabling a major French banking group, through several of its investment entities, to become a minority shareholder alongside the founder.
Advising a major French family-owned real estate development and land-management group on the transfer of the founder’s shares through a capital reduction as part of a wealth-transfer transaction.
Advising a US digital-health company specialising in teleradiology and the interpretation of medical imaging by expert radiologists on the acquisition of a French medical-AI company.
Advising a foreign family office on the acquisition of a real estate complex in Spain valued at more than €20 million.
Advising an independent French group specialising in operational services for the airport sector in connection with several tenders and the corporate structuring of operations relating to the provision of logistics services at several airports in an Asian country.
Advising an independent French group specialising in operational services for the airport sector in preparing its participation in a tender for the acquisition and privatisation of a company responsible for airport logistics in South America.
Advising a French company specialising in the installation and refurbishment of industrial resin flooring in connection with a sponsorless LBO and an LMBO.
Advising an investor and partner of a global private-equity firm specialising in MedTech on his investment in and appointment as managing partner of a French MedTech company, including the implementation of investment and management packages for several group entities and an employment agreement.
Advising a French biotechnology and pharmaceutical company specialising in radiopharmaceuticals and nuclear medicine on a fundraising round to finance the construction of a unique facility in France for the manufacture of radiopharmaceuticals used for diagnosis and the targeted treatment of certain diseases, particularly certain cancers.

Litigation

Advising and representing a holding company owning a leading food-retail brand operating hypermarkets and supermarkets in the Paris region in a dispute relating to the acquisition of a competing group.
Advising and representing a food-retail group in a dispute relating to damage occurring during the construction of a shopping centre.
Advising and representing a major British industrial group in the corrugated-cardboard packaging sector in connection with an accident at one of its plants.
Advising and representing a leading European industrial group in the bedding sector in a dispute relating to the abrupt termination of established commercial relationships.
Advising and representing a leading European industrial group in the bedding sector in a dispute concerning the termination of its distribution agreements.
Advising and representing a group operating serviced residences for seniors in a dispute with an investor group concerning commercial leases.
Advising and representing a Paris-based group in a commercial dispute with a French company specialising in the distribution of branded cosmetics products.
Advising and representing a real estate group in a commercial dispute concerning the operation of a major shopping centre in France.
Advising and representing clients in a shareholder dispute concerning the governance and allocation of share capital of companies operating a leading shopping centre in France.
Advising and representing clients in a dispute between heirs and shareholders relating to succession issues and the reorganisation of the shareholding structure of an iconic international fashion group.
Advising and representing clients in a shareholder dispute concerning the allocation of share capital in a well-known publishing group producing several specialist titles.
Advising and representing clients in a shareholder dispute concerning the ownership structure of the companies that developed and operate a shopping centre in France.
Advising and representing an HNWI in a dispute between partners concerning control of a French general partnership (SNC) owning a significant real estate asset in Paris.
Advising and representing an international technology consulting and engineering group specialising in digital transformation, data, cybersecurity and digital solutions in a shareholder dispute concerning the exit of the minority shareholder of a foreign subsidiary and the financial terms governing the termination of his corporate office and employment positions within other group subsidiaries in Asia and the Middle East following the acquisition of the group.
Advising and representing heirs in a damages claim relating to alleged fraud by the defendants in connection with the acquisition of a €70 million real estate asset in the south of France.
Advising and representing clients in a shareholder dispute within a well-known publishing group involving professional-negligence proceedings against a lawyer.
Advising and representing a French consulting firm specialising in strategic, operational and marketing advice to luxury-hospitality and yachting businesses in an unfair-competition dispute in the luxury-concierge sector spanning Europe, Morocco, Russia and the Middle East.

International Arbitration

Advising and representing a French investor, Mr Bachar Kiwan, in an ICSID investment arbitration against Kuwait (Case No. ARB/20/53) concerning the audiovisual sector in Kuwait.
Advising and representing a leading French industrial group in the agri-food sector in an ICC commercial arbitration concerning a dispute relating to the termination of established commercial relationships and issues involving brand licences in Chile and Colombia.
Advising and representing a French premium bakery operator in international arbitration proceedings against two companies based in Panama and Colombia.