Laïd Estelle Laurent co-heads the corporate restructuring practice at Jeantet.
Her main focus is to advise clients on the technical and operational implementation of restructuring operations with a corporate and M&A approach. She works with groups of companies or SMEs in difficulty as well as with creditors to protect their rights, within an amicable framework known as “prevention of difficulties”, including assistance with negotiations and renegotiation of commercial, financial or bank debt, as well as within a procedural scope of Safeguard, Judicial Reorganization or Judicial Liquidation, and more generally with restructuring strategies.
She also assists potential purchasers, industrialists, shareholders or funds involved in takeovers of companies in difficulty, or carve-outs.
She advises companies and groups of companies facing crisis situations, preventive/amicable or insolvency proceedings under French or European law, and works on cross-border or international transactions on issues such as site closures in France (carve-outs), risks of extension of proceedings, merger of assets and liabilities or liability claims against the group’ s parent company.
Prior to joining Jeantet, she was a partner at Fidal and its niche firm BloWin specialized in restructuring, which was formed in 2014 with Bertrand Biette, whom she met at Bird&Bird in 2008.
Background
Lawyer since : 2002
Bar. : Paris
Language(s) : French - English
Training :
- LLM Cambridge University (Insolvency Law, Banking Law Corporate Law), 2004
- CAPA, 2001
- DESS Business and Tax Law – University Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), 2000
Publications
- Evaluating France’s introduction of the classes of affected parties mechanism – Article by Laïd Estelle Laurent – RESTRUCTURING & INSOLVENCY GUIDE 2024 FRANCE, 9/07/2024
- “Distressed M&A: How to Undertake Distressed M&A in France”, Thomson Reuters, december 2023
- Recent case law of the Court of Cassation concerning a “Distress M&A” transaction: good news for the transferring shareholders, but vigilance is still required! – Le Monde du droit, 12/04/2023
- Transposition of the European Insolvency Directive: A rebalancing between companies in difficulty and their creditors- La Jaune & La Rouge, October 2022
- End of public aid: how to minimise the impact on businesses? – Option Finance, 05/20/2021
- [INTERVIEW] Restructuring : preparing for the future in an uncertain world – ODA, 03/05/2021
- Back to work: focus on safeguarding jobs and relaunching the economy – La Tribune, 19/09/2020
- Assistance on debt renegotiations and restructuring of the company in difficulty or in bankruptcy.
- Assistance on debt renegotiations with lenders or investors of the company in difficulty in amicable and preventive proceedings.
- Assistance in the context of actions to preserve creditors’ rights (debt recovery, claims, realisation of security, etc.).
- Assistance to creditors/contractors in amicable and preventive proceedings.
- Assistance in the context of takeover operations of companies in difficulty (sale plan, pre-pack sale, etc.).
- Assistance to an international group/foreign parent company in the context of the closure/liquidation of a French subsidiary.
- Advised Baywa r.e in the sale of a french solar park with a total capacity of 47 MWp to Commerz Real
Aymar de Mauléon joins Jeantet in its growth process alongside Laïd Estelle Laurent and Hadrien de Lauriston in the Restructuring team
Paris, March 28, 2025 – Jeantet announces the arrival of Aymar de Mauléon as a partner in its Restructuring practice. Aymar de Mauléon founded and headed the Restructuring practice at Linklaters from 2006 to 2025, where he built up a strong reputation in complex and strategic matters. This arrival is a further step in the […]
Paris | RESTRUCTURING – LAW OF COMPANIES IN DIFFICULTY
Jeantet advised BAYWA R.E in the sale of a 47 MWp french solar project to COMMERZ REAL
Paris, 20 March 2025 – Jeantet advised BayWa r.e. in the sale of the project Amance, a ready-to-build 47 MWp solar park project in eastern France, to Commerz Real (for its Klimavest fund). Developer BayWa r.e. has agreed to sell to a fund managed by the German investment manager Commerz Real the 47MWp Amance photovoltaic […]
Paris | CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY
“Distressed M&A: How to Undertake Distressed M&A in France”, Thomson Reuters, december 2023
A Practice Note giving an overview of the legal framework applicable to distressed M&A transactions in France, with a global insight into the main features and the pitfalls specific to each situation. Read the Article : here
| CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY
Evaluating France’s introduction of the classes of affected parties mechanism – Article by Laïd Estelle Laurent – RESTRUCTURING & INSOLVENCY GUIDE 2024 FRANCE, 9/07/2024
The system has proved to be effective in addressing companies with business difficulties, but areas of uncertainty remain, say Laïd Estelle Laurent, Jean Delapalme, and Claire Blondel of Jeantet. To find out more, click here.
Paris | RESTRUCTURING – LAW OF COMPANIES IN DIFFICULTY
Jeantet advised “K” Line in connection with the takeover of Airseas start-up’s business as part of a prepack sale
Paris, February 20, 2024 – Jeantet advised the shipping company KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA LTD “K” Line (Tokyo, Japan), on the prepack sale takeover of Airseas’ business activity (Nantes, France), which develops a propulsion technology for freight transportation ships. On February 14, 2024, following negotiations under the conciliation procedure, the Nantes Commercial Court ruled in favor […]
Paris | RESTRUCTURING – LAW OF COMPANIES IN DIFFICULTY
Jeantet advises Apollo in the context of the signing of a definitive agreement to provide EUR 500 million quasi-equity financing to Air France-KLM’s engineering and maintenance (MRO) activities
Paris, July 17, 2023 – Jeantet has advised Apollo Global Management in the context of the signing of a definitive agreement for a EUR 500 million quasi-equity financing into an operating affiliate entity of Air France owning a pool of components dedicated to Air France’s engineering and maintenance (MRO) activities. Apollo Global Management and Air […]
Paris | CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY | BANK-FINANCE-REGULATORY | RESTRUCTURING – LAW OF COMPANIES IN DIFFICULTY | TAX
Recent case law of the Court of Cassation concerning a “Distress M&A” transaction: good news for the transferring shareholders, but vigilance is still required! – Le Monde du droit, 12/04/2023
À propos de l’arrêt de la Cour de cassation, 1er mars 2023, n° 21-14.787 par Karl Hepp de Sevelinges, Laïd Estelle Laurent et Ruben Koslar.
| M&A AND CORPORATE LAW | INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS
A multi-disciplinary excellence dedicated to listed companies in difficulty – Le Figaro Partner Restructuration, 12/10/2022
Derogating in certain respects from the rules of non-listed companies, the restructuring of listed companies requires the simultaneous orchestration of expertise in stock market law, restructuring and financing. Laïd Estelle Laurent and Bertrand Biette, partners specializing in restructuring, and Cyril Deniaud, partner specializing in stock exchange law, explain the principles governing the restructuring of listed […]
Paris | RESTRUCTURING – LAW OF COMPANIES IN DIFFICULTY | LISTED COMPANIES AND CAPITAL MARKETS LAW
Transposition of the European Insolvency Directive: A rebalancing between companies in difficulty and their creditors- La Jaune & La Rouge, October 2022
Laïd Estelle Laurent and Bertrand Biette, partners, review the legislative changes brought about by the transposition of the European Insolvency Directive into French law. In particular, they tell us more about the more important place given to creditors in the elaboration and negotiation of recovery and turnaround plans. Meeting.
Paris | RESTRUCTURING – LAW OF COMPANIES IN DIFFICULTY
Jeantet advises the Emosia group on the acquisition of My Jolie Candle
Paris, July 28, 2022, Jeantet has advised the Emosia group, owner of Maison Berger Paris, on the acquisition of the My Jolie Candle start-up Emosia, the owner of Maison Berger Paris, Bougies la Française, and Ambiances Devineau, stands out as an emblematic brand and a leader in the market of home fragrances. My Jolie Candle, […]
Paris | CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY
Jeantet advises Apollo on its €500 million investment in Air France-KLM
Paris, July 19, 2022, Jeantet advises Apollo Global Management on the signing of a final agreement for a €500 million investment in a subsidiary of Air France-KLM. Apollo Global Management and Air France-KLM announced that they have entered into a final agreement relating to the issuance of perpetual super-subordinated notes, fully subscribed by Apollo Global […]
Paris | CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY | BANK-FINANCE-REGULATORY | TAX | RESTRUCTURING – LAW OF COMPANIES IN DIFFICULTY
Jeantet advises Figeac Aéro in connection with its financial restructuring
Paris, April 6, 2022 – Jeantet advises Figeac Aéro (listed on the regulated market of Euronext Paris, compartment B), a reference partner of major aeronautical corporations, in its financial restructuring. As part of this financial restructuring conducted under the aegis of the French Government’s Interministerial Committee on Industrial Restructuring (CIRI), an agreement was reached between […]
Paris | LISTED COMPANIES AND CAPITAL MARKETS LAW | FINANCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND SOCIAL RESTRUCTURING | BANKING AND FINANCE LAW