Latham & Watkins Advises Alcentra on the People & Baby Group’s Financial and Corporate Restructuring

Latham & Watkins advises Alcentra, acting as the principal bondholder, after the exercise, through the agent, of its rights under a “golden share” granting control over the group’s majority voting rights, in the context of the financial and corporate restructuring of the People & Baby Group. This restructuring was effected under accelerated safeguard proceedings.

The Latham team, led from Paris by partners Thomas Doyen, Hervé Diogo Amengual, and associate Hugo Bodkin in restructuring, also included counsel Etienne Gentil and associate Léa Demulder on finance matters; partner Charles-Antoine Guelluy, with associates Louise Gurly, Thibault Burnier, and Mya Lemseffer on corporate matters; partner Myria Saarinen, with associates Pauline Gilli and Andra-Cristina Tihauan on litigation matters; and partner Adrien Giraud, with associate Louis-Victor Sachs on antitrust matters.