Salans has added to its Paris practice with a team of three M&A partners and nine associates from Lefevre Pelletier & Associes, including its former head of M&A and private equity Jean-Luc Bedos.

Bedos, Dimitri Pubellier and Pierre Leveque all joined the firm as partners on 1 July in the M&A and private equity practice, with Leveque also set to take a role in the international law firm’s litigation practice.