Expertise

Business Restructuring & Turnaround

Tailor-made solutions for crisis situations

International tensions, energy and political crises, inflation, shorter production and marketing cycles, technological shifts and innovations, social and environmental challenges are forcing businesses to rethink their economic models and organizational structures.

Our multidisciplinary Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency (RED) team accompanies you throughout these transformations.   

From the initial strategic assessment to the ultimate implementation of restructuring measures – and throughout the refinancing, debt workout or divestment stages – we work with you to build personalized solutions that help you create value. 

Organized around the firm’s national Knowledge Management Division, with a team in Paris and practitioners across the regions, bringing together the firm’s corporate, labor, dispute resolution and tax law skills, our CRI practice is active throughout the country, in the heart of your economic area, giving you access to distressed M&A and restructuring experts and tailor-made solutions, in both advisory and litigation matters. 

We serve as counsel to distressed businesses, their executives, creditors, banks, funds and investors, as well as to administrators and receivers.

You will also have access to our ecosystem (notaries, fiduciaries, mediators, financial firms, engineers, etc.) as well as to our foreign partner firms via the unyer and WTS Global networks.

Our services

Debt Negotiation and Alternative Financing

The combination of a stronger prudential supervision of banking institutions and a deregulated finance market has created the conditions for a drastic change in the sources of corporate financing. 

In this complex landscape, it is essential to set up protective measures, both for your business and for your business partners. Our RED team, with its combined expertise in the relevant legal instruments, finance law and banking law, in association with our partner firms such as Fidal Fiducie, will work with you to build the best-suited solutions for your situation.   

Assisting Distressed Businesses, in Amicable or Judicial Proceedings

Whether your company’s present or imminent difficulty is of an economic, labor or financial nature, or is specific to your business model, our CRI team assists you in assessing your situation and selecting and implementing the most appropriate procedure, whether amicable (ad hoc mandate or conciliation) or judicial (safeguard, reorganization or liquidation). 

Distressed M&A

We work with you to develop your external growth project through a court-supervised acquisition, by helping you first identify the ideal target and appropriate partners and then structure the transaction in such a way as to control the risks and ensure a successful takeover.

Reorganizations and Industrial Negotiations

The scale and complexity of a workforce restructuring can weaken your business. Our team masters the specific regulations and HR support tools (redeployment, training) required to successfully carry out such operations.

Cross-Border Transactions

Whether you are a multinational group whose subsidiaries are in difficulty or a foreign company looking to acquire a French target or dealing with an insolvent business partner, our RED team has the expertise needed for these complex operations.

Special Litigation

Crisis situations spawn special kinds of disputes: civil and criminal liability of directors and officers, shareholder conflicts, labor disputes, tensions with supervisory authorities, unfair competition, etc. Our RED team’s litigation attorneys, combining responsiveness, mastery of procedural tools and experience before the courts throughout France, are here to assist you.

Our experts in corporate transformation and turnaround

Dimitri Sonier

Dimitri Sonier

Partner
Dispute Prevention & Resolution
Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions

Dimitri Sonier

Langue(s) parlé(es) : English

Area of expertise

Dispute Prevention & Resolution Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions
Paris La Défense
+33 1 46 24 30 30
Antoine Assie

Antoine Assie

Partner Office Director
Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions
Dispute Prevention & Resolution

Antoine Assie

Langue(s) parlé(es) : English

Area of expertise

Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions Dispute Prevention & Resolution
Mathieu Aurignac

Mathieu Aurignac

Partner Department Director
Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions

Mathieu Aurignac

Langue(s) parlé(es) : French, English

Area of expertise

Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions
Antoine Bisdorff

Antoine Bisdorff

Jurist - Partner
Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions
Dispute Prevention & Resolution

Antoine Bisdorff

Langue(s) parlé(es) : English, German

Area of expertise

Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions Dispute Prevention & Resolution
Rennes
Paris La Défense
+33 1 46 24 30 30
+33 2 99 33 88 88
Delphine Brunet

Delphine Brunet

Partner
Dispute Prevention & Resolution
Dispute Prevention & Resolution

Delphine Brunet

Counsel

Langue(s) parlé(es) : English, Spanish

Area of expertise

Dispute Prevention & Resolution Dispute Prevention & Resolution
Thomas Carrera

Thomas Carrera

Partner
Dispute Prevention & Resolution
Criminal Risk Prevention & Management +1

Thomas Carrera

Langue(s) parlé(es) : English, French

Area of expertise

Dispute Prevention & Resolution Criminal Risk Prevention & Management Real Estate
Nicolas Chrisment

Nicolas Chrisment

Partner
Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions

Nicolas Chrisment

Counsel

Area of expertise

Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions
Chalon-sur-Saône
+33 3 85 47 81 81
Patrick Espaignet

Patrick Espaignet

Partner
Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions

Patrick Espaignet

Area of expertise

Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions
Ambre Fageole

Ambre Fageole

Mid Associate

Ambre Fageole

Langue(s) parlé(es) : English, Spanish

Clermont-Ferrand
+33 4 73 44 40 00
Yves-Marie Herrou

Yves-Marie Herrou

Partner Department Director
Dispute Prevention & Resolution

Yves-Marie Herrou

Langue(s) parlé(es) : English

Area of expertise

Dispute Prevention & Resolution
Hayette Khellas

Hayette Khellas

Partner
Dispute Prevention & Resolution

Hayette Khellas

Counsel

Langue(s) parlé(es) : English

Area of expertise

Dispute Prevention & Resolution
Paris La Défense
+33 1 46 24 30 30
Didier Madrid

Didier Madrid

Partner Department Director
Dispute Prevention & Resolution
Criminal Risk Prevention & Management

Didier Madrid

Area of expertise

Dispute Prevention & Resolution Criminal Risk Prevention & Management
Cécile Montpellier

Cécile Montpellier

Partner
Dispute Prevention & Resolution

Cécile Montpellier

Counsel

Langue(s) parlé(es) : French, English

Area of expertise

Dispute Prevention & Resolution
Brigitte Petitdemange

Brigitte Petitdemange

Partner Technical Director
Dispute Prevention & Resolution

Brigitte Petitdemange

Langue(s) parlé(es) : English

Area of expertise

Dispute Prevention & Resolution
Hedy Saoudi

Hedy Saoudi

Partner Office Director
Dispute Prevention & Resolution
Criminal Risk Prevention & Management +1

Hedy Saoudi

Area of expertise

Dispute Prevention & Resolution Criminal Risk Prevention & Management Real Estate

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