{"id":20627,"date":"2025-09-10T16:35:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cvs-avocats.com\/cercles-de-la-forme-wellnest\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T17:04:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:04:27","slug":"cercles-de-la-forme-wellnest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cvs-avocats.com\/en\/cercles-de-la-forme-wellnest\/","title":{"rendered":"Alongside the founder of Les Cercles de la Forme in the sale of the brand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>Les Cercles de la Forme, a market leader in Paris, operates 26 gyms and fitness centers and generated revenue of just under \u20ac30 million in 2024.<br><br>After acquiring approximately 60% of the fitness brand\u2019s capital in 2017, Montefiore Investment is handing over the reins to the Montpellier-based group Wellnest Society, founded by Abdenbi Amirache (former CEO of Neoness) and the Martek family office.<br><br>The newly formed group now has 200 employees and 39 gyms in Occitanie and Paris, and is expected to generate consolidated revenue of \u20ac40 million. The group aims to open new clubs and pursue external growth opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Advisors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Founding partner and selling director<\/strong>: <\/strong>Cornet Vincent S\u00e9gurel (Emmanuel Mansillon, Victoire Miniscloux)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Investor lawyer and selling shareholder : <\/strong>Proskauer (Jeremy Scemama, Aymeric Robine, Philippine Rakover, Gwenael Kropfinger, Maxime Dussartre)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Legal advisor to the buyer: <\/strong>Gide (Paul Jourdan-Nayrac, Julien Negroni, Andreea Raileanu, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Thomelin, Paul de France, Manon Lorthiois, Nathalie Benoit, Jade Beriot, B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Perrier, Marie PASTIER-MOLLET, Paul Cheysson)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M&amp;A advisor<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>DC Advisory (David Benin)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Financial due diligence: <\/strong>BM&amp;A (Laurent Peny, Pauline Bouvier)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vendor Due Diligence:<\/strong> Forvis Mazars<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team from Cornet Vincent S\u00e9gurel advised the founder and managing director of Les Cercles de la Forme, Bernard Bonelli, on the sale of the gym and fitness network to Wellnest Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-communique-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cvs-avocats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cvs-avocats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cvs-avocats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cvs-avocats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cvs-avocats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cvs-avocats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cvs-avocats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cvs-avocats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cvs-avocats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cvs-avocats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}