We advise and assist major French and international groups, French and foreign SMEs and middle-sized companies, start-ups, managers and shareholders, as well as family groups at all stages of their external growth projects (acquisitions of shares in companies or entire branches of activity), as well as in their business combinations, in France and abroad.

For all these operations, we assist our clients in their legal, tax and financial engineering and structuring, as well as in the negotiation and development of the various tools needed to manage and finalize their projects.

We are involved in the following operations:

• Company buyouts and ales
• Acquisition of shareholdings
• Sale of asset or sites
• Restructuring operations
• Company transfers
• Group reorganizations
• Foreign investment in France 
• Setting up business abroad for French companies
• Cross-border joint-ventures, creation of joint subsidiaries

To support our clients in all aspects of their projects, we also have specific expertise in corporate governance, the status of directors and officers as well as conflicts between shareholders. In this context, we provide advice concerning:

• Directors’ liability and risks
• Drafting of by-laws, shareholders’ agreements, internal rules of governance bodies, directors’ charters
• Conflict management, enforcement of agreements and bylaws