We design creative solutions to achieve success. Our lawyers assist companies in difficulty themselves or their partners in prevention procedures in their decision making. Familiar with crisis management, our lawyers operate in the following areas :

• Detection and analysis of the company’s economic and financial difficulties ;
• Identification of solutions adapted to its situation ;
• Implementation of preventive measures : moratoriums with public and private creditors, opening and follow-up of confidential ad hoc mandate and conciliation procedures, negotiation and drafting of memoranda of understanding with a view to ensuring the company’s sustainability.

Our know-how includes financial and industrial restructuring. Our lawyers work with other teams of lawyers with complementary expertise (corporate, tax, financing, etc.). We notably act in the following fields :

• Corporate reorganization, recovery and group risk analysis ;
• Debt restructuring ;
• Corporate restructuring ;
• Assistance to shareholders and managers ;
• Financial backing, entry into the capital of an investor or an industrial operator.

Our solid expertise in judicial procedures allows us to optimize the use of these restructuring tools, to ensure the preservation of the interests of the parties involved, each in their own role, considering a value-preserving exit from the procedure. We advise in particular in the following areas :

• Assistance to companies in difficulty : Identification of the procedural solution, implementation and follow-up of the procedure.
• Assistance to co-contractors and creditors : enforceability and preservation of the rights of co-contractors and creditors in the insolvency proceedings, monitoring of the proceedings as a controller, negotiation of solutions at the end of the proceedings, etc.

The takeover of a company in difficulty is not dealt with according to the same criteria as M&A in bonis. The procedural framework in which a transfer of a company in difficulty can take place imposes specific rules. Our transversal approach to cases and the skills of our Restructuring and M&A lawyers enable us to assist our clients in addressing these specific situations and the complex issues that arise therefrom.

• Assistance to buyers interested in acquiring companies in difficulty, branches of their activity or their isolated assets: Identification of assets and terms of purchase, formalization of the offer according to the procedure, assistance in dealings with the procedural bodies, the court or the official receiver...

Our lawyers assist their clients: companies, managers, shareholders and creditors in the management of their crisis situation, they assist them in particular in litigation involving :

• Liability of directors and shareholders (e.g.: settlement of debts, co-employment, liability ... ) ;
• Defense of the parties involved ;
• Assistance in the recovery of assets, claims or the realization of securities.

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