Hoche Avocats on the acquisition of Groupe Elephant by Webedia.

Hoche Avocats on the acquisition of Groupe Elephant (a leading independent audio-visual production company) by Webedia.

Building on strong entrepreneurial DNA, the two independent French groups have ambitious international development objectives, with the end-purpose of promoting French creation throughout the world.
Elephant-Webedia aims to create programmes with high-added editorial content in all format types, on all screen sizes, for all generations, in close working relationship with both confirmed and upcoming talented individuals from television, video and social platforms.
The operation was subject to approval from the French Competition Authority.

Hoche Avocats was advising Group Elephant:
M&A aspects: Jean-Luc Blein (Partner), Audrey Magny (Counsel), Amandine Doury and Thibault de Dieuleveult (Associates)

Corporate Tax aspects: Eric Quentin (Partner)

Wealth Tax aspects : Didier Barsus (Partner)

Gide’s team advising Webedia :

M&A aspects : Hugues Scalbert (Partner)

Competition aspects : Franck Audran (Partner) and Benoit Gérard (associate).