Founded in Paris in 1920, Gide is a leading international law firm with 12 offices spread throughout the world.
Gide is physically present in six regions of the world, with 11 offices, enabling it to act on cases globally.
Gide has advised all Enablon shareholders on the sale to Wolters Kluwer of Enablon’s entire share capital and voting rights. The operation, amounting to over 250 million euros, was finalised on 1 July 2016. Established in 2010, Enablon is active in SaaS solutions dedicated to risk management and sustainable development issues. Enablon employs over 300 people throughout the world (France, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia) and generated a turnover of 45 million euros in 2015.
With this sale operation, Enablon will become an operational unit of Wolters Kluwer’s Legal & Regulatory division. Enablon will thus be able to rely on Wolters Kluwer’s strong international presence in over forty countries, with a turnover of 4.2 billion euros.
Legal counsel to Enablon shareholders:
Gide M&A: Anne Tolila (partner), Matthias Grolier (counsel), Grégoire Debit and Julien Négroni; Tax: Christian Nouel (partner); Employment: François Vergne (partner), Bénédicte Perier; IP-TMT: Thierry Dor (partner), Jean-Hyacinthe de Mitry, Aurélie Pacaud;
Bredin Prat M&A: Sébastien Prat and Kate Romain (partners).
Legal counsel to Wolters Kluwer:
Allen & Overy (Amsterdam) M&A: Gijs Linse (senior associate); Leoniek de Vito, Jort de Groodt; Tax: Ren Bondrager (counsel) and Allen & Overy (Paris): Anne Caroline Payel; Julie Parent.
