The Paris office of international law firm Simmons & Simmons advised Coalesce Automation, a US start-up backed by private equity funds and specialising in data management, analysis, and transformation, in its acquisition of Castor Doc, a French company offering innovative solutions for enterprise data discovery, enhancement, and governance.
Through this acquisition, Coalesce is expanding its data transformation platform by incorporating CastorDoc's solution, which provides dynamic metadata management and AI-assisted features. This solution is as Coalesce Catalog and will continue to offer Coalesce's clients democratised access to data and integrated governance in the early stages of data development.
The multidisciplinary team from Simmons that supported Coalesce Automation was led by Partner Jérôme Patenotte, with Savina Jouan and Karim Abdelgawad handling corporate matters. The team also included:
Julia Gori, Partner, and Fatou Dione, on employment law matters,
Chloë Nessim, Partner, Leila Chikhi, Marc Antonini, and Carla Calvet-Scalia on tax law matters,
Ombline Ancelin, Partner, Florent Barbu, Erwan Legendre, and Julien Aubry on competition law matters,
Elisa Bocianowski, Partner, and Antoine Delagrange, on real estate law matters,
Sarah Bailey, Partner, Emilie Danglades-Perez, and Eva Stephan on personal data protection matters,
Frédérique Potin, of Counsel, and Baptiste Lecharny on intellectual property law matters.
The teams from Greenberg-Glusker, led by Eric Perlmutter-Gumbiner, advised Coalesce Automation on the US legal aspects of the transaction. The founders of Castor Doc were advised by Jones Day, and the financial investors by Gide.
