Business difficulties & restructuring

We assist you as soon as the diagnosis of business difficulties is made, in order to implement the appropriate preventive solutions: ad hoc mandate, conciliation and safeguard, followed by the judicial handling of the difficulties (receivership and liquidation), in conjunction with the bodies involved in the collective procedure.

We also assist creditors in declaring their claims on the liabilities side or in claiming assets.

We advise you on asset takeovers and company acquisitions.

Lastly, we assist company directors in implementing turnaround solutions and defending their liability claims.

Our cross-functional approach enables us to offer you tailored, effective support in dealing with your company’s difficulties.

Our lawyers specialising in business difficulties and restructuring are available to advise you in Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Lyon, Montpellier, Nice, Nîmes and Paris.

Preventing difficulties: ad hoc mandates and conciliation

In conjunction with your legal and financial departments and your chartered accountant, we intervene before the cessation of payments to analyse the nature and origin of your difficulties in order to recommend the most suitable procedure for dealing with your difficulties confidentially and under the protection of the court.

Judicial handling of difficulties: safeguard, receivership and liquidation, continuation plan, sale plan, etc.

Working with the court and the bodies involved in the collective proceedings, we can open the proceedings, monitor the observation period, and help you find solutions to turn your business around through continuation or sale. We also assist you during the liquidation phase to guarantee your rights as effectively as possible when dealing with institutional and unsecured creditors.

Creditors: claims declarations, asset claims

We assist you as a creditor of a company under safeguard, receivership, or compulsory liquidation proceedings to assert your rights before the official receiver and the commercial courts at the stages of declaring claims, verifying liabilities, and claiming assets.

Executives: liabilities and sanctions

We advise and assist executives before the courts whose liability is likely to be sought by collective proceedings bodies, with a view to having a financial and/or criminal penalty imposed on them.