DELSOL Avocats advised ABC Companies, a leader in motorcoach and transit equipment sales and service in USA and Canada which was the exclusive distributor of the motor coaches produced by the Belgian Company Van HooL, in the context of Van Hool’s bankruptcy. Our team assisted ABC Companies, throughout a complex and particularly urgent process,...
ReadMarie VIGOUROUX
Marie GARDE
Manuel WINGERT
Amaury DUMAS-MARZE
Gabriela PINTILESCU
Philippe DUMEZ
Jeanne PARRET
Delphine BRETAGNOLLE
Philippe PACOTTE
Headed by three specialists in advising companies in difficulty, Amaury DUMAS-MARZE, Philippe DUMEZ and Manuel WINGERT, assisted by Delphine BRETAGNOLLE and Philippe PACOTTE on Employment Law and Séverine BRAVARD on Financing, the Companies in difficulty – Restructuring department provides support for the most part to entrepreneurs, creditors, debtors and buyers, as well as to court-appointed receivers and agents.
The team deploys its expertise in such areas as upstream support, the law pertaining to companies in difficulty, directors’ liability, sureties, commercial contracts and recovery, providing both consulting and litigation services.
We are particularly involved in :
Preventive procedures
- Ad hoc mandate
- Conciliation
Insolvency procedures
- Safeguard procedures, accelerated financial safeguard procedure (SFA)
- Receivership
- Compulsory liquidation
Business acquisitions via the Commercial and Judicial Courts
- Audits
- Monitoring of the tender procedure
- Legal, financial and fiscal structuring of takeover deals
- Preparation of pre-packaged disposal plans, preparation and presentation of the tender offer
- Monitoring and implementation of the disposal plan
Directors’ liability
- Assistance in defending directors against actions for damages (action to make good asset shortfalls, disqualification, personal bankruptcy, bankruptcy)
- Defence of directors in the implementation of surety bonds
Social support
- Social audit, social strategy of takeover bids and management of related procedures in dealings with employee representatives
- Restructuring plans (outside or as part of insolvency procedures)
- Social aspects of business disposals
Financing support
- Renegotiation of bank or mezzanine debt
- Negotiation and introduction of bank or mezzanine debt refinancing measures
- Implementation of securities (particularly in the form of trusts)
Rankings of the department
- DECIDEURS 2024
- Assistance to companies and shareholders - Small & mid-cap : Excellent
- PALMARES DU DROIT 2022
- Distressed companies : Bronze Trophy
- OPTION DROIT & AFFAIRES 2022-2023
- Insolvency proceedings : ⭐⭐
- Prevention and renegotiation of debts : ⭐⭐
- Redundancy plan and relating collective disputes : ⭐
- 2024-10-15
- Amaury DUMAS-MARZE, Sébastien POPIJN, Alisan CAVDARLI, Charles PRICE
- Deals
- 2024-09-25
- Delphine BRETAGNOLLE, Renaud-Jean CHAUSSADE, Adrien WILLIOT, Amaury DUMAS-MARZE, Jean-Baptiste AUTRIC, Jean-Baptiste CROIZIER, Jessica NEUFVILLE, Marie VIGOUROUX
- Deals
Located in the south of France (Avignon), Nextech is a school for apprentices whose aim is to provide industrial companies with the skills they need to implement their strategy and improve their competitiveness. Nextech employs 35 people and trains 500 apprentices. The school has been placed in receivership. DELSOL Avocats advises the...
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- Manuel WINGERT, Philippe MALIKIAN, Marie GARDE
- Deals
Electricité de France (EDF) has acquired a majority stake in the share capital of upOwa, which was founded in 2014 and specialises in supplying low-cost solar kits in Cameroon. upOwa has completed just over 60,000 installations in favor of 300,000 people in rural Cameroon. EDF plans to use its global expertise to help accelerate upOwa’s...
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- Emmanuel KAEPPELIN, Delphine BRETAGNOLLE, Amaury DUMAS-MARZE, Jean-François DEFUDES, Mayeul FOURNIER de SAINT JEAN, Gabriela PINTILESCU
- Deals
DELSOL Avocats advised Boostheat, a manufacturer of innovative heating solutions, with the acquisition of a stake in HBR Investment Group. This transaction was carried out as part of Boostheat’s safeguard plan, which was approved by the Lyon Commercial Court on 23 May 2023. DELSOL Avocats advised Boostheat since the beginning of the safeguard...
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