Karine Montagut is a corporate M&A lawyer, based in Paris. 

Her practice focuses, for both domestic and international groups, on share acquisitions and disposals (including VC and minority strategic investments), assets and business transfers, joint ventures & partnerships, corporate reorganizations (contributions, mergers, hive down, etc), distress M&A, corporate aspects of refinancing projects and dealing with French Foreign Investment prior notifications in the context of acquisitions by foreign investors. 

Her role also includes coordination assistance/project management in the context of cross-border deals to ensure that the services produced in the different countries involved are consistent and comprehensive, when delivered to clients.

Her industry expertise focuses notably on TMT (Karine co-leads the EMEA Tech group), Life Sciences & Healthcare, industrial and retail companies, agribusiness and infrastructure.

Karine was previously in a magic circle law firm in Paris, where she was made counsel in 2007, having joined the firm in 2001. Prior to this, Karine was as an associate at another magic circle law firm.

She was admitted to the Paris Bar in 1997, holds a post graduate degree (laureate in business law) from the University of Paris V Descartes and a graduate degree in business and tax law from the University of Paris II Panthéon Assas.

She is fluent in French and English.