We advise major French and international groups, French and foreign SMEs and mid-cap companies, start-ups, managers, shareholders and family-owned groups at every stage of their acquisitions (of shares or entire business divisions) and 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 acquisitions and disposals
• Acquisition of shareholdings
• Asset and site disposals
• Restructuring operations
• Business succession and 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