Restructing and insolvency lawyers
Providing recognised assistance at all stages of financial difficulties, from early prevention through to securing restructurings and handling takeover offers.
Legal expertise at every stage of financial difficulty
From our offices in Paris, Lyon, Aix-Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes and Lille, our lawyers advise managers, shareholders and investors dealing with crisis or underperformance situations.
Our dedicated restructuring team assists companies and their management facing economic, legal or financial difficulties, as well as their creditors and potential buyers:
Prevention
- Assistance with out-of-court settlements, ad hoc mandates or conciliation procedures.
- Negotiating agreements with the company’s creditors
- Setting up refinancing solutions
Handling judicial matters
- Assistance with the opening, running and closing of safeguard, receivership and compulsory liquidation proceedings
- Advice and assistance when insolvency is declared
- Drawing up continuation plans, finding buyers and/or investors
- Defence in the event that managers are held liable
- Handling all litigation arising from insolvency proceedings (disputed claims, ownership claims, termination of commercial leases, monitoring or early termination of contracts, etc.)
Company takeovers
- Looking for targets of potential interest to the buyer
- Assisting the potential buyer in defining the scope of its offer
- Preparing, drafting and presenting the offer
- Defending it before the competent court in the presence of procedural bodies
- Implementing the disposal plan