OUR VALUE

 

We pride ourselves on remembering that behind any business there is an entrepreneur.


Our clients value:
- our Enterprise solution oriented, pragmatic and creative approach;
- professional, user-friendly, responsive and efficient services;
- achieving their goals within the agreed time frame and price and creating a long-term and close relationship.


We assist managers, shareholders and investors with:
- Setting up an adequate vehicle and related financing and corporate needs (Early Stage),
- Setting up all necessary operational instruments for the ventures (Development); and
- Structuring and completion of enterprise exit (Family Office – Maturity).


Corporate – Finance – Family Office is the largest practice within our firm, encompassing Corporate, Finance, Family Office and more generally, Private Equity, Labour and Commercial law.

Corporate and investment structures and vehicles

• Optimising investment structures and vehicles

• Setting up investment vehicles

• Drafting and negotiating documentation relating to venture capital investments, development capital investments and matured capital investments

• Drafting and negotiating all documentation relating to share capital structuring and restructuring (share capital increase, share capital decrease, conversion of shares, share or other security repurchase)

• Drafting and negotiating documentation relating to French or cross-border contributions or transfers of shares, businesses, assets or branches of activity

• Drafting and negotiating documentation relating to French or cross-border joint ventures

• Drafting and negotiating investment agreements, shareholder agreements and other similar agreements

• Advising companies and groups in their corporate governance strategy

• Implementing compliance rules and procedures within a group of companies

• Assisting the drafting of codes of good conduct and ethics

Private Equity

• Drafting and negotiating venture capital investments, development capital, minority investments or investments in companies undergoing restructuring

• Drafting and negotiating investment documentation and agreements between investors and management companies or between investors and founders

• Drafting and negotiating documentation relating to simple or complex securities issues

• Drafting and negotiating the issuance of simple or complex financial instruments

• Drafting and negotiating investment agreements, shareholder agreements and other similar agreements

Family Office

• Advising on the status and remuneration, profit sharing and participation of company owners and managers

• Drafting and negotiating agreements relating to managerial investment and profit sharing

• Advising on transmission of businesses by company owners

• Drafting and negotiating agreements relating to business transmissions (Dutreil agreements, owner buy out documentation, pre-transmission or retirement restructuring)

Finance

• Advising lenders, investment funds and companies on structuring of financings (LBOs, PtoP, OBOs, MBOs, Bridge financing, corporate financing, refinancing, recapitalization, factoring, UCITS)

• Drafting and negotiating senior, mezzanine, factoring, bonds, bridge, coverage finance, cash pooling documentation

• Drafting and negotiating senior inter-creditor agreements

• Drafting and negotiating security interests agreements, implementing guarantees

Labour

• Drafting and negotiating employment contracts, dismissal and other documentation on termination of employment, remuneration schemes, disputes briefs, settlement agreements, senior executive agreements

• Drafting and negotiating employment aspects of restructuring operations

• Drafting and negotiating employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions: due diligence, drafting of employment covenants in acquisition documents, information and consultation of employee representatives, employment issues relating to senior managers

Commercial law

• Drafting commercial agreements

• Litigating commercial disputes