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Roland is a partner in the M&A and Corporate Finance group in our Paris office, where he advises French and multinational companies on their domestic and cross-border transactions. Roland is a member of the Paris, Brussels and New York bars. Roland has significant experience in the structuring, negotiation and implementation of M&A and corporate transactions, joint-ventures, corporate financing, restructuring schemes, multi-country business reorganizations including carve-out and spin-off. He has numerous deals for corporate and private equity clients active in various industries including defence & aerospace, automotive, e-mobility, renewable energy, Food & Agri and life science. He also leads the effort on ESG considerations, in particular ESG reporting under CSRD directive, EU Taxonomy and ESRS as well as draft CSDD directive and the existing French instruments implemented from NFRD or Vigilance duty. Roland also has extensive experience in advising clients on commercial contracts, including a variety of supply chain legal issues whether at the drafting, negotiation or implementation stages. Roland began his legal career at the global US law firms, Coudert Brothers and Weil Gotshal, before becoming head of the M&A practice at Lefèvre Pelletier & Associés, then managing partner at Morgan Lewis. Before joining BCLP, he spent 7 years at EY Law, as one of the transaction law leaders for Europe West and global lead for Consumer Products & Retail. Roland has also been seconded to Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan in 1996-1997 and led the EY Law US Central desk from Chicago in 1999-2020.