Jean-François Louit is a partner in Gide's Corporate team in Paris. Together with Caroline Lan, he heads the practice dedicated to assisting executives, managers, company founders and family shareholders.

He is involved in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and capital markets transactions in a variety of contexts (groups owned by investment funds, listed companies, family groups, etc.), particularly with regard to access to capital, management incentives and governance.

Jean-François was recently involved in KKR's investment in the April group and in the merger between the Flowbird and EasyPark groups, and also advises a number of leading listed companies on governance issues and incentive and employee share ownership plans.

Prior to joining Gide, Jean-François Louit was a partner in the Corporate & Securities department of Mayer Brown Paris. Jean-François holds a Magistère in business law, taxation and accounting from the Faculté de droit d'Aix-en-Provence and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto (Canada).