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MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS AND CORPORATE LAW DEPARTMENT
TOTAL ASSISTANCE FOR STRATEGIC OPERATIONS

Since its creation, the Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Department of Bignon Lebray & Associés has counseled not only French companies (be they listed on the stock market or not), but also numerous subsidiaries of foreign groups, in the areas of corporate law, stock market law, mergers, acquisitions, and other similar operations.

 Our department is at the heart of our five offices and works in close collaboration with the other departments of the firm (tax, labor, environmental law, etc.) in all sectors of the economy.

 We represent our French and foreign clients, according to their needs, at every stage of negotiations for the purchase or sale of private or public corporations, transfers, partnerships and joint ventures.

 We also advise and represent clients with respect to public offerings, audits and corporate restructuring, acquisition financing, risk capital and development capital, and the management of corporations facing financial difficulties.

 Our department also handles litigation linked to operations such as the execution of liability guarantees, lawsuits concerning shareholders’ agreements, etc.

 

 Our team of lawyers offers a complete set of services, assisting notably in the following operations:

 

Operations for corporate restructuring -- partnerships and joint ventures

• Legal and regulatory structuring, in direct cooperation with our tax team; drafting and negotiation of preparatory contracts (letters of intent, promises of purchase or sale, agreement protocols, drafting of merger contracts, spin-offs, etc.); drafting and negotiation of partnership agreements (joint ventures, shareholders’ agreements, assistance in clients’ post-restructuring).

 

Sales and acquisitions of corporations

• Drafting and negotiation of all corporate documents in view to the acquisition of shares, assets or businesses (share transfer agreements, representations and warranties,…) assistance in auditing the target company, assessment of the risks and stakes in relation to the transactions, negotiation in conducting the operations up to its closing, accompanying the clients during the post-acquisition and integration process.

 

Financing of Acquisitions – Risk capital – Investment capital

• Legal assistant as to risk capital and development capital, advice to investment funds and contractors as to capital increase operations and long term financing transactions, LBO and general financing, drafting any documents in relation to the issuing of transferable securities, shareholders’ agreements…

 

Stock Exchange

• Advice to listed companies, assistance in conducting stock market transactions (takeover bids, companies going public, relationship with regulators, corporate housekeeping of listed companies…).

 

Corporate housekeeping

• Drafting the whole corporate documents relating to the life of the companies (company set-up, capital-related operations, changes of corporate names and manager, transfers of registered offices, closing and opening of secondary establishments, dissolutions, liquidations, approval of annual accounts…), assistance in the implementation of foreign companies in France and French companies abroad, carrying out all relevant formalities.

• Depending on the type of each individual operation and profile of each client, our department relies on the skills and know-how of lawyers of the other departments within Bignon Lebray & Associés in order to provide the most comprehensive answer to the problems encountered. • A dedicated team attached to our department also ensures the legal follow-up of a portfolio of more than 600 companies (listed and not listed) in France as a whole.

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