Bio

Eduardo Fernandez is a partner in Willkie's Corporate & Financial Services Department in Paris. Eduardo focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. He is co-head of Willkie's European Committee and co-managing partner of Willkie's Paris office. A native New Yorker, Mr. Fernandez commenced his career as an associate in Willkie's New York office. He is fluent in English, French and Spanish. Mr. Fernandez has extensive experience advising both privately held and publicly listed companies on cross border acquisitions and dispositions, corporate venture investments and strategic alliances in a broad range of industries, including business services, consumer products, education, food and healthcare services. He regularly represents some of Europe's most prominent private equity sponsors on leveraged buy-outs (LBO), leveraged recapitalizations and late stage growth capital investments and has acted on several of the most prominent LBO and growth capital transactions in recent years on the French market. Eduardo Fernandez also regularly advises family-owned professional long term investors on a variety of matters. Chambers Europe (2022), Chambers Global (2022) and several other professional guides, including IFLR and Legal 500, rank Eduardo among the leading individuals practicing in Private Equity (High End Capability) and Corporate/M&A in France. Eduardo Fernandez has been regularly named by his peers among the Best Lawyers in France for mergers & acquisitions and private equity, including as a Lawyer of the Year in the 2018 edition. In 2020, Eduardo was cited among the top M&A lawyers in France (based on deal count and deal value) by Mergermarket and recognized among the top 10 M&A lawyers in France by MergerLinks.