Corporate M&A

Mergers and acquisitions

• Due diligence on acquisitions and disposals
• Legal, financial and tax engineering
• Assistance in negotiating and drafting sale and acquisition documents:
  • Confidentiality and exclusivity agreements
  • Letters of intent and term sheets
  • Agreements for the sale of securities, funds or assets
  • Asset and liability guarantee agreements
  • Financing agreements
  • Investment agreements
  • Security documents (on-demand guarantees, surety bonds, mortgages, pledges, etc.)
  • Shareholder agreements
  • Merger, demerger and partial business transfer agreements
• Legal and tax management/Coordination
• Case presentation to French and European competition authorities in connection with the declaration or authorisation of mergers
• Asset and liability guarantee monitoring
• Defending clients in disputes in connection with these operations (in particular related to implementing liability and asset guarantees, obtaining price supplements and implementing shareholder agreements)

Equity financing/Private equity 

• Financing/Raising capital (venture capital, private equity, growth equity)
• Advice and assistance in seeking financing
• MBO/LBO/OBO
• Issuing financial instruments and hybrid securities (warrants, BSPCE [founders' warrants], shares with warrants, bonds, convertible or negotiable bonds, participating stock, etc.)
• Preference shares
• Management package

Employee shareholding

Management consulting 

• Corporate governance
• Legal strategy
• Crisis management
• Financial communication
• Legal diagnosis of litigation risks
• Implementation of preventive measures

Companies in distress

• Ad hoc mandate, conciliation, safeguarding, receivership, court-supervised liquidation
• Acquisition of companies in distress
• Litigious receivership and liquidation procedures

Daily corporate transactions

• Formation of non-commercial or commercial companies, groupings, associations and various ad hoc vehicles
• Asset contributions, mergers, demergers, partial business transfers
• Conversions, dissolutions, liquidations
• Legal monitoring
• Other operations (certification of accounts, appointment and dismissal of executive officers, head office transfers, change of legal name, etc.)