Thomas Dupont-Sentilles

Thomas Dupont-Sentilles is a partner in Goodwin’s Technology and Life Sciences groups and advises the full range of investors and companies seeking venture capital investment in France and cross-border.

He also advises European and US clients on a broad range of corporate law matters, including domestic and cross-border M&A, private equity deals and leveraged buyouts, and management incentive schemes.

Thomas also undertakes corporate and commercial advisory work for a broad range of corporate clients and private equity portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Goodwin in 2016, Thomas was a senior associate in the corporate and private equity team of King & Wood Mallesons LLP (formerly SJ Berwin) for 10 years. In 2007, he spent some time in SJ Berwin’s London office.

Thomas’s recent transactions include advising:

Venture Capital / Growth Equity

• Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of the world’s largest and pre-eminent venture capital fund, in leading the €10 million financing of Stoïk, the leading provider of cyber insurance in Europe.
• Astorg in the $500 million financing of EcoVadis, the leading provider of globally trusted business sustainability ratings.
• A confidential investor on the €80 million Series C Financing round of Pigment, a French-based company having developed a powerful strategic planning and forecasting platform for fast-growth companies.
• Benchmark Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners in the $680 million Series B financing round of Sorare, a NFT gaming platform for global football fans.
• BNP Paribas and ADEME Investissement in the €9 million fundraising of Ecov, a mobility expert and carpool line operator.
• DentalMonitoring, the first company to offer an AI-based solution that empowers dentists and orthodontists to expand their practice into a virtual environment, in its $150 million growth financing from Vitruvian Partners and Mérieux Equity Partners.
• Eni Next, a corporate venture capital firm, on the €100 million fundraising of Pasqal, a developer of a full-stack quantum computing technology designed to simulate complex phenomena for scientific discovery.
• ITEN, the French specialist in Li-ion ceramic technology, in its €80 million fundraising in order to increase its production capacity.
• Quadrille Capital, Headline and Bpifrance in the $100 million Series B financing of Homa, a Paris-based provider of a game development platform.
• RGreen Invest in the €10 million fundraising of Sunology, a manufacturer of solar products intended to Increase the use of solar energy.
• Tribun Health, a developer of diagnostic imaging software designed to provide digital transformation of a cancer diagnosis, in its €15 million Series B financing.

LBO and Other Transactions

• Arcole in its investment in Black Tiger, the French software publisher and leader in the European market for big data platforms.
• Groupe Rossignol, the French privately-owned winter sports specialist:
  • in the sale of the Felt brand to PIERER Mobility AG, a leading global firm in the bicycle sector;
  • in the sale of the Raidlight / Vertical brands to Mr. Benoît Laval, the historic founder of Raidlight / Vertical,
  • in the sale of the TIME brand, the bicycle frameset activity manufactured in Slovakia, to Cardinal Cycling Group.
• The management of Ipackchem, a global market leader in the production of high-performance plastic packaging, 
  • as they entered into exclusive negotiations for the sale of the group to Greif. 
  • in the acquisition the plastic packaging branch of the Tournaire group.
• LFPI:
  • in the LBO acquisition of Tikamoon group, a manufacturer and specialist in teak furniture, mahogany furniture, or bamboo furniture.
  • in the acquisition of the Metaline group, a French information technology services group.
• Scottish Equity Partners in their investment in Braincube, a French manufacturing data software company.
• Yassir, an Algeria-based delivery app operating in the Middle East, in the acquisition of Flink, a food delivery services provider.

Thomas is consistently recognized as a leader in his field by International and French preeminent, peer-reviewed publications:

• Ranked as Next Generation Partner in Private Equity: Venture/Growth Capital in the last edition of the Legal 500 EMEA guide
• Ranked in Band 3 in Private Equity: Venture Capital in the last edition of the Chambers Europe guide
• Recommended in Venture Capital Law in the last edition of Best Lawyers France