Pierre-Antoine Dubecq
Partner
Pierre-Antoine joined DELCADE as partner in October 2022. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint-ventures and private equity. Pierre-Antoine is an expert in mergers and acquisitions and related transactions involving listed or private companies, with a focus on complex domestic or cross border transactions.
He also has deep experience in international and cross-border joint ventures and strategic alliances, as well as in the negotiation of major commercial and industrial projects. His practice includes private equity restructuring and turn-around transactions, corporate and M&A litigation matters.
Pierre-Antoine’s activities covers a wide range of industries, with particular emphasis on the Defence, Aerospace and Healthcare sectors.
Prior to joining DELCADE, Pierre-Antoine was notably partner at the M&A departments of Coblence and Gide in Paris. In 2004, he was involved in the opening of the Paris office of international law firm Morgan Lewis, where he was partner until 2014.
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Sports sponsorship: how the “Athlete-Brand” is reshaping contract drafting
A recent documentary aired on France Télévisions, “Kylian Mbappé, la diplomatie du ballon rond“ (“Kylian Mbappé: The Diplomacy of the Beautiful Game”), highlighted an inescapable reality of modern sport: the elite athlete is no longer merely a sportsperson — they are a geopolitical entity, a vehicle of soft power, and above all, a brand in […]
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France’s New Professional Sport Act: Key Changes for 2026
Promulgated on 3 August 2026, Act No. 2026-725 on the organisation, management and financing of professional sport marks a major overhaul of the French Sports Code (Code du sport). The reform seeks in particular to secure the sector’s economic sustainability by safeguarding certain sources of club revenue (notably income from broadcasting rights), and to strengthen […]
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Financing models for football clubs: developments and legal challenges
Professional football today faces a complex economic equation, driven in particular by growing demands for sporting competitiveness against a backdrop of instability in certain traditional revenue streams. In this context, clubs can no longer rely solely on income from broadcasting rights, matchday revenues or conventional sponsorship. Over the past fifteen years, a marked diversification in […]
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