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 (CRI) 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, and can, in an emergency, mobilize an ad hoc team dedicated to your case.

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 CRI 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 CRI 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 CRI team’s litigation attorneys, combining responsiveness, mastery of procedural tools and experience before the courts throughout France, are here to assist you.