Catherine Donzé

Catherine Donzé practices corporate law with a focus on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions. She has experience in the automotive sector, advising on complex multijurisdictional transactions involving a leading global automotive supplier. Catherine also has a background in acquisition financings and refinancings across a range of asset classes and industry sectors.

Catherine has advised International Automotive Components (IAC), a leading global supplier of automotive interior components and systems, on its complete exit from Europe and South Africa, one of the most impactful transactions in the European automotive supply sector in 2025. This highly coordinated series of cross-border disposals involved four separate acquirers across multiple jurisdictions, including Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, South Africa, Slovakia, and Spain. The transaction required navigating differing legal frameworks while maintaining an integrated approach to execution and timetable management and involved coordination with major European OEMs. The transactions included disposals of its German, Czech, Polish, and South African businesses to Inteva Products; the disposal of its Slovak business to Tata AutoComp Europe and Artifex Interior Systems; the disposal of its Spanish plant in Logroño to Flex-N-Gate; and licensing and services arrangements involving Tata AutoComp Systems' acquisition of IAC's Swedish business out of administration.

Other recent experience includes advising American Industrial Partners in the sale of Aluminium Dunkerque Industries France, the owner of Europe's largest primary aluminium smelter, to Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) (deal value north of €1 billion) and a joint venture partnership between Greystar Real Estate Partners and a wholly owned subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority on the progression of their landmark development in Bermondsey, London, including a £600 million debt facility from a consortium of four lenders.