Corporate / Business law
Common corporate
law transactions
- Setting-up of French companies (start-ups, SMEs, family business, holding companies, etc.), branches, subsidiaries of foreign companies, joint ventures
- Assistance in setting up corporate governance (management package, shareholders’ agreement, profit-sharing)
- Capital transactions: contributions, capital increases and reductions
- Ongoing monitoring of corporate life: approval of accounts, transfer of registered office, name changes, etc.
- Dissolution and liquidation of companies
Growth operations –
Company restructuring –
Transmission
- Restructuring of companies’ groups: national and cross-border mergers, universal transfer of assets (TUP), dissolution-liquidation, contribution in kind, partial contribution of assets, demerger
- Assistance with growth operations: fund-raising, joint ventures:
- Legal and contractual due diligence
- Negotiation of transaction documentation (NDA, LOI, investment agreement, memorandum of understanding, term sheet, shareholders’ agreement, acquisition contract, representations and warranties agreement, …)
- Drafting of documentation required for the creation and management of financial instruments such as shares, warrants and bonds, whether simple or convertible
- Estate optimization in a transmission of family group companies; Structuring schemes (holding companies, transfer of assets), ownership stripping (bare ownership, usufruct)
Assistance for self-employed
professionals / liberal practitioners
- Structuring of business activity into a company: analysis of the transition from sole entrepreneurship to a company, choice of the appropriate structure (SEL, SCM, commercial companies, associations), management of the relationship with the professional association for the creation of the company
- Transfer of private clientele: audit, follow-up on the valuation of private practice/clientele, drafting of legal documentation for transfer (sale compromise, share transfer deed, contribution, etc.)
- Setting-up partnership between liberal practitioners: associate contract, joint practice agreement for practicing professional shareholders, shareholders’ agreement, internal regulations, non-competition clause
- Drafting of professional, commercial or special leases
- Assistance in disputes between shareholders
Advice and litigation in
commercial and contract law
- Negotiation and implementation of commercial contracts (commercial leases, service contracts, distribution contracts, general terms and conditions of sale)
- Negotiation and implementation of intra-group contracts and agreements: delegation of powers, current account agreements, intra-group service agreements, treasury agreements
- Commercial litigation and post-acquisition or shareholders disputes