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INSOLVENCY & BANKRUPTCY DEPARTMENT
The Bankruptcy & Insolvency team is composed of lawyers specializing in collective proceedings who have a good deal of experience with these issues in France.

In situations of prevention (ad hoc mandates, amiable settlement) and legal settlement, we have the ability to act on behalf of companies and managers confronted with economic, legal or financial difficulties, or on the side of creditors or persons seeking to take over a company and its operations.

In cases of prevention, we assist companies’ managers in:

  • Ad hoc mandate procedures and amiable settlements
  • Negotiation of agreements with company creditors
  • Setup of refinancing solutions

 In cases of legal settlement:

  • We advise on declaration of cessation of payments and receivership procedures, including development of continuation plans and searches for potential takeovers.
  • We assist in judicial liquidation procedures.
  • We defend our clients’ interests if they are investigated for alleged failings that could leave them open to fines or personal sanctions (such as being prohibited from management, other losses of rights, etc.).

 We also specialize in developing bids for takeover of companies undergoing judicially supervised recovery plans:

  • Assistance to potential takeover managers in defining their future roles
  • Development, drafting and presentation of bids
  • Defense of bids before competent jurisdictions
  • Setup of bids

We are also able to assist companies and managers confronted with debtors in financial difficulty that benefit from legal procedures either of recovery or of liquidation.

In the latter cases, we can set up declarations of financial claims or initiate complete procedures for contesting such claims.

Upon a client’s request, we can obtain the client’s designation as controller in a collective procedure and manage such a mandate before the procedural authorities.