{"id":2327,"date":"2019-07-24T09:42:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T07:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hoche-avocats.com\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2019-11-21T09:44:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T08:44:48","slug":"hoche-avocats-advised-canal-and-groupe-les-echos-for-the-acquisition-of-mezzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoche-avocats.com\/en\/hoche-avocats-advised-canal-and-groupe-les-echos-for-the-acquisition-of-mezzo\/","title":{"rendered":"HOCHE Avocats advised Canal + and Groupe Les Echos for the acquisition of Mezzo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HOCHE Avocats advised Canal + and Groupe Les Echos for the acquisition of Mezzo <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hoche Avocats has advised Canal + and Groupe Les Echos on the acquisition of Mezzo SA from the Lagard\u00e8re and France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions groups.<br \/>\nEstablished in 1998, Mezzo SA produces and broadcasts two pay-TV channels \u00ab Mezzo \u00bb and \u00ab Mezzo Live HD \u00bb, dedicated to classical music, jazz and dance.<br \/>\nNow equally held by Groupe Les Echos and Canal +, Mezzo SA will be able to draw on the complementary expertise of its shareholder groups ; which have defined a division of their roles in the management of the two foresaid TV channels, the former acting as operator and the latter as distributor.<br \/>\nThis acquisition completes a series of acquisitions enabling Groupe Les Echos, on the one hand, to develop a diversified offer of thematic media, in particular in the area of culture, and consolidate a leading media division in classical music alongside Radio Classique, and with regards to Canal +, on the other hand, to develop a niche brand recognized either in France and internationally by relying on the Canal + group\u2019s assets and know-how.<\/p>\n<p>Canal + and Groupe Les Echos were advised by:<br \/>\n&#8211; Hoche Avocats with Didier Fornoni, partner, and Georges-Dominic Sardi, associate, on the corporate and M&amp;A aspects, Eric Quentin, partner, Pascale de Calbiac, senior counsel, and Marion B\u00e9har, associate, on the tax law aspects, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Cassereau, partner, C\u00e9cile Pays and Vincent Marty, associates, on the labour law aspects and Patrick Amouzou and Julie Bellesort, partners, on the IP and IT aspects.<br \/>\n&#8211; Cabinet Renaudier with Richard Renaudier and Karine Turbeaux, partners, on the antitrust aspects.<\/p>\n<p>Lagard\u00e8re was advised by:<br \/>\n&#8211; Veil Jourde with Fran\u00e7ois de Navailles, partner, and Gabriel d\u2019Amecourt and Ana\u00efs Pinton, associates,<br \/>\n&#8211; Bredin Prat with Sophie Cornette de Saint-Cyr, partner, and Jean-Damien Boulanger, counsel.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.magazine-decideurs.com\/news\/les-groupes-les-echos-le-parisien-et-canal-agissent-de-concert-pour-l-acquisition-de-mezzo\">D\u00e9cideurs &#8211; 23 July 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globallegalchronicle.com\/france\/les-echos-le-parisien-and-canal-acquierent-mezzo-sa\/\">Global Legal Chronicle &#8211; 22 July 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lemondedudroit.fr\/deals\/65363-hoche-avocats-conseille-canal-groupe-echos.html\">Le Monde du droit &#8211; 26 July 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfnews.net\/Referentiel\/Operations\/M-A-Corporate-MEZZO-TV-jeudi-07-mars-2019\">Cfnews &#8211; 07 March 2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoche Avocats has advised Canal + and Groupe Les Echos on the acquisition of Mezzo SA from the Lagard\u00e8re and France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-track-record"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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