Rachel Ashley

Rachel Ashley leads our Corporate – M&A team.

Rachel assists French and foreign clients (mainly in industrial and services sectors) with the incorporation and the corporate life of their companies, as well as with the restructuring of groups, contributions, acquisitions and disposals of companies, businesses and branches of activities, and with joint ventures. She more generally supports foreign investors with their activities in France.

Rachel assists foreign clients with FDI checks with the French General Treasury (applications for prior review of an activity and applications for the prior authorization of an investment), and with declarations with the Banque de France.

She also assists companies having regulated activities with their various procedures with the French authorities.

Rachel joined the firm Vatier as a partner in January 2023. She had previously founded the law firm Astine in 2011. Rachel started her career at Bignon & Lebray in 1998, before joining LPA in 2000, and then the Paris office of the Anglo-Saxon law firm, Gowling WLG in 2010.