Bio

Armand Grumberg is the head of Skadden’s European Mergers and Acquisitions practice and the leader of the firm’s Paris office. He has extensive experience in strategic and complex cross-border transactions, including public and private acquisitions, contested and hostile bids, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations, and capital markets transactions. Grumberg also has significant experience in shareholder activist-related matters. Prior to joining Skadden in 2003, he practiced law in the New York, London and Paris offices of another leading international law firm. He also serves on Skadden’s Policy Committee, the firm’s governing body. Mr. Grumberg repeatedly has been recognized as a leading individual in Who’s Who Legal, Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, The Legal 500 EMEA, IFLR1000 and Best Lawyers as a leading individual in corporate/M&A in France. In 2022 and 2021, he was ranked by Forbes and La Lettre des Juristes d’Affaires as a Top Lawyer of the CAC 40. Also in 2022, for the eighth consecutive year, Mr. Grumberg was listed in The Best Lawyers in France for his Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisition Law practices. Mr. Grumberg was named Public and Private Acquisitions Expert of the Year in France and Contested and Hostile Bids Expert of the Year in France at the Global Law Experts Annual Awards in 2022; Corporate and M&A Adviser of the Year in France at the Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards in 2022; Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year in France at the Corporate America Today Annual Awards in 2022, 2021 and 2020; Contested & Hostile Bids Expert of the Year in France at the M&A Today Global Awards 2023 and 2022; M&A Lawyer of the Year at the Leaders in Law Global Awards 2021; Contested and Hostile Bids Expert of the Year in France and Public and Private Acquisitions Expert of the Year in France by CorporateINTL in 2022 and 2021; Deal Maker of the Year at the Finance Monthly Magazine Awards in 2020 and 2019; Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year in France by Global 100 in 2020 and 2019, and both Leader of the Year in M&A in France and Contested & Hostile Bids Expert of the Year in France in 2022 at the Lawyer Network Annual Awards; M&A Lawyer of the Year by Lawyer International’s Legal 100 in 2022; M&A Lawyer of the Year in France by Corporate Insider’s 2019 Business Excellence Awards; and Lawyer of the Year (Complex M&A) by ACQ5’s Global Awards 2019.