Companies in difficulty

Our objective: to put our expertise at the service of takeover or recovery strategies

Our team has recognised expertise in dealing with issues relating to companies in difficulty: assisting investors and buyers, preventing and dealing with difficulties, etc. Our lawyers provide global and operational solutions in an increasingly adverse environment.

Our main practice areas are:

  • Assisting investors and purchasers in acquiring companies in difficulty; Preventing difficulties (ad hoc mandates and conciliation);
  • Judicial treatment of difficulties (advice to companies in safeguard, reorganisation or liquidation proceedings);
  • Directors’ and officers’ liability. Working in synergy with BG2V’s tax and employment teams, we offer a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary approach to dealing with companies in difficulty.

Our teams’ recent achievements include:

  • Advising a leading player in organic food retailing on shop takeover projects;
  • Advising a leading player in the automotive bodywork sector in connection with the takeover of several automotive bodywork workshops in France;
  • Advised an air treatment manufacturer in connection with a conciliation procedure to put an end to a dispute with its main customer;
  • Counsel to a delivery company in a conciliation procedure to settle a dispute with one of its commercial partners;
  • Advised the subsidiary of an American group developing a software solution in the field of mobility in the context of a conciliation procedure in order to obtain a rescheduling of its social, tax and financial debts;
  • Advised a company manufacturing and distributing medical equipment in drawing up its recovery plan.

Roland Guény

Partner
Litigation
Corporate
Companies in difficulty
Alexandre de Bigault du Granrut

Alexandre de Bigault du Granrut

Associate
Companies in difficulty
Corporate
Litigation
Charles Houlet

Charles Houlet

Associate
Litigation
Corporate
Companies in difficulty
Mathilde Perier

Mathilde Périer

Associate
Litigation
Corporate
Companies in difficulty
Oksana Zoppini

Oksana Zoppini

Associate
Corporate
Companies in difficulty
Litigation