OUDOT

What OUDOT does

OUDOT (legal entity: SELAS Oudot et Associés) is a Paris-headquartered French notary firm specializing in complex real estate transactions. The firm operates from a single office at 9 Rue Saint-Florentin in the 8th arrondissement and is led by seven associated notaries (Anne-Hélène Garnier, Valérian Conrad-Bruat, Pascal Potier, Vincent Hustache, Stéphanie Philippe, Victor Sempé, and Hélène Guézennec), with founder Jean-Maurice Oudot serving as senior advisor. Service lines span investment and disinvestment advisory, banking law and structured financing, planning and public economic law (aménagement), environmental law (contaminated sites, waste regulation), and wealth management advisory for business transfer/takeover situations.

The firm's core product offering is specialized legal advisory on large, multi-party French real estate transactions, complemented by a proprietary electronic dataroom ("Dataroom Électronique") used to manage and accelerate transaction document workflows — featuring secure access, real-time tracking, and automated validation processes. The underlying technology stack is a workflow and document-management application rather than a general-purpose platform.

OUDOT generates revenue through regulated French notary transaction fees, calculated as a percentage of transaction value on real estate deals, financings, refinancings, and related legal services. The firm does not publicly disclose pricing but references a downloadable "Politique Tarifaire." Client acquisition is driven entirely by professional reputation, network relationships, and direct senior engagement — there is no paid marketing, no channel partners, and no digital distribution. The customer base is exclusively enterprise: institutional investors, listed property companies (foncières cotées), insurance companies, property developers, industrial groups, aménageurs (urban developers), and financial institutions. Geographic scope is domestic France (Île-de-France and nationwide deals), with selective cross-border mandates involving Anglo-Saxon investors.

Name

OUDOT

Legal name

SELAS Oudot et Associés

Website

https://oudot.net

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Paris-based French notary firm (SELAS Oudot et Associés) specializing in complex real estate transactions, serving institutional investors, listed property companies, developers, industrial groups, and financial institutions via specialized legal advisory and a proprietary electronic dataroom.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Notary Services - Transaction Fees: As a French notary firm, Oudot generates revenue through regulated transaction fees on real estate deals, financing agreements, and related legal services. Fees are typically calculated as a percentage of transaction value. The firm provides end-to-end services from due diligence through closing for complex property transactions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

OUDOT is a French notary office providing specialized legal services for complex real estate transactions, including investment and disinvestment, banking law and structured financing, public planning, environmental law, and wealth management advisory. The firm also operates a proprietary electronic dataroom application that supports secure document management, real-time tracking, and automated validation workflows for large property transactions. Services are delivered directly by partner notaries with dedicated support teams tailored to each matter.

Product overview

Oudot Notaires is a Paris-based notary office specializing in complex real estate, offering a portfolio of legal and advisory services. The core offering consists of specialized legal services in investment and disinvestment, banking law and structured financing, planning and public economic law, environmental law, and wealth management. The firm also provides a proprietary electronic Dataroom application for secure document management and transaction facilitation. Services are delivered through a team of seven notary partners who provide personalized advisory to investors, institutions, industrial companies, and financial organizations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Dataroom Électronique An electronic dataroom application used by OUDOT to optimize the computer management of real estate transaction files. It facilitates and accelerates the sales process on major real estate projects with paperless operations, instant secure document consultation, real-time tracking, interactive communication, controlled information management, and automated validation/modification workflows. It is offered to OUDOT's institutional investor, developer, and foncière clients in connection with their real estate transactions.
• Investment & Disinvestment Services Full-service notary support for all types of investment and disinvestment operations involving real estate assets (built or to be built), covering tender process preparation (cahier des charges, memorandum d'information, dataroom), due diligence audits, and negotiation of preliminary and final contractual agreements. Targeted at institutional investors, listed property companies, developers, and investors in France.
• Banking Law & Structured Financing Services Notary and legal advisory for structuring, negotiating, and implementing financing, refinancing, or credit-bail (lease financing) arrangements, plus associated satellite agreements such as treasury centralization and security documents. Targeted at banks, financial institutions, listed property companies, developers, and industrial groups.
• Planning & Public Economic Law Services Assistance in structuring private or public development operations (aménagement), urban planning, and negotiating project management and project management assistance contracts (mandats et conventions d'assistance). Targeted at aménageurs (urban developers), public authorities, and real estate developers operating in France.
• Environmental Law Services Legal assistance for public authorities and industrial groups on real estate projects involving environmental competencies, including contaminated/polluted sites (sites pollués), waste law (droit des déchets), and negotiation of contractual coverage of environmental risk. Targeted at industrial groups and public-sector entities.
• Wealth Management Services Advisory for executives and managers in the context of business transfer or takeover, including asset analysis, wealth consultations (consultations patrimoniales), and legal and tax optimization recommendations within a precise legal framework. Targeted at corporate executives and senior managers in France.

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Music Notaire (Stéphane Music): Paris-based notary firm focused on complex real estate transactions for institutional and developer clients, providing direct competitive overlap with Oudot's specialized practice area.
• Allez & Associés: Paris-based notary firm specializing in complex real estate transactions for institutional investors, developers and listed property companies, overlapping directly with Oudot's client base and service scope.
• 14 Pyramides Notaires: Parisian notary firm specializing in complex real estate transactions for institutional and professional clients, providing direct competition for Oudot in the high-end transaction market.
• Notaires du Louvre: Paris-based notary office with a strong institutional and corporate client base handling real estate investment and financing transactions, overlapping with Oudot's core complex-deal practice.
• Wargon & Associés: Parisian notary practice active in complex real estate transactions, investments and financing, competing with Oudot for mandates from developers, foncières and financial institutions.
• Cheuvreux Notaires: Large Paris-based notary office providing real estate, corporate and complex transaction services to institutional clients; directly competes with Oudot in the top-tier French real estate notarial market.

Broad incumbents

• Bredin Prat: Leading French business law firm with significant real estate and finance capabilities for institutional clients, comparable to Oudot's institutional client focus but as a broader legal services incumbent.
• De Pardieu Brocas Maffei: Major French business law firm with a leading real estate, banking and finance practice advising institutional investors and developers; competes with Oudot on complex real estate transactions but operates as a broad incumbent rather than a specialized notary.
• Gide Loyrette Nouel: Top-tier international law firm with a substantial French real estate, banking and finance practice serving institutional investors and large corporates, overlapping with Oudot on complex deal mandates as part of a broader portfolio.

Others

• Cushman & Wakefield France: Global commercial real estate services firm with a large French practice advising investors, developers and lenders on transactions; comparable to Oudot because it serves the same institutional real estate ecosystem on large mandates, though not a notary firm.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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