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Olivia Lê Horovitz

Partner
Paris
+33.(0)1.58.44.15.27
Fax +33.1.58.44.15.01

Primary Practice

Secondary Practices

Education

  • D.E.A, University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1994
  • LL.M., University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, 1991
  • Maitrise, University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1985
  • D.E.S.S., University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, (International Law - 1986, Foreign Trade Law - 1987)

Admissions

  • Bar of Paris

Languages

  • English
  • French
  • Biography Overview
  • Additional Background
  • Representative Work

Ms. Olivia Lê Horovitz is a partner in the firm's Paris office. She focuses her practice in private equity, mergers and acquisitions transactions, corporate law and energy and environmental law.

In Ms. Lê Horovitz's private equity practice, she advises and represents emerging technology, life science and renewable energy companies from the early stages through financing rounds and completion through disposals and liquidity transactions. She also advises French and foreign investment funds, corporate investors and business angels on their investment activities.

In her mergers and acquisitions work, Ms. Lê Horovitz represents French and foreign clients with domestic and cross border acquisition transactions, and advises on divestitures, spin-offs, recapitalizations, restructurings and other related transactions.

She also assists and advises clients with respect to environmental regulations and energy projects.

Professional Background

Prior to joining K&L Gates, Ms. Lê Horovitz practiced as a partner in a Paris law firm which focused on technology, media and life science companies and has previously worked for Anglo-Saxon firms.

  • Represented a major Canadian private electricity producer whose core business is the development and operation of power stations that generate renewable energy in establishing a European partnership with an investment fund in Luxembourg and accelerating its development in wind and solar power in Europe.

  • Represented an Israeli company, specialized in the manufacture and marketing of medical and technical products, in the acquisition of a French company, original equipment manufacturer of catheters.

  • Represented a major U.S. solar supply company in negotiating the supply of photovoltaic modules to the major French green energy producer.

  • Represented a leading U.S.-listed company providing intelligent photonic solutions and systems integrators in the selling of 90 percent of its French subsidiary to the managers after the spin off of part of its activities and with the implementation of a number of transitional commercial and IP agreements between the companies.

  • Represented a U.K. company providing mission critical software solutions to the media industry in acquiring the French media business of a U.S. company employing more than 1500 people worldwide and providing media software solutions in more than 225 newspapers in 15 different countries.

  • Represented a major listed Canadian company developing and marketing products and systems for accessing communication networks in the acquisition of the enterprise telephony business of a French global leader in aerospace, defense and related services.

  • Represented the investment funds of a famous French online travel and leisure provider in the sale of all of their shares against listed shares of a U.K. online travel retailer.

  • Represented the premier U.S. diversified industrial manufacturer of electrical systems and components for power systems in the acquisition, in France, of the aerospace division of a U.S. company providing sealing and pneumatic systems for large commercial aircraft.

  • Representing an Israeli company listed on the Nasdaq being a global leader in contactless microprocessor-based smart card solutions, in the acquisition of 100% of the shares of a French promising start up company specialized in providing operating systems for contactless applications. 

  • Representing a Californian investment capital fund focused on the intersection of consumer internet, media and communications software investment in investing in a French company providing an easy and cost effective way to distribute high quality media to very large audience, followed by the completion of a share exchange transaction ("flip") of the French company into a U.S. company. 

  • Representing a leading U.S. company (with presence in China and France) provider of end to end design and systems integration services for the wireless handset industry, to sale its French subsidiary to the managers. 

  • Representing two investment funds (French and Japanese) in their investment into a French company provider of intelligent traffic management solutions and then representing all the investment funds and managers of this company in their exit through a share exchange transaction with a U.S. company publisher of software solutions to accelerate fluidity of traffic. 

  • Representing all the investment funds (8 VC) and managers of a French company, expert in internet services solutions aimed at middle size enterprises (information and communication technology) in their exit through a share exchange transaction with a listed French company world leader of telecom equipment provider.

  • Representing one of the largest U.S. cable company in the acquisition of a Bahamas Corporation having interests in wireless licenses and telecommunications operations in the French West Indies and in France.

  • Represented major foreign companies with respect to legal environmental due diligence reviews and advising on French and EU environmental regulations.
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