CREDENTIALS
international
International transactions
- Advising an airport-services operator in connection with a strategic capital increase enabling the entry of several investment funds affiliated with a major French banking group, to support its international expansion and energy-transition initiatives.
- Advising a company specialising in energy efficiency on several strategic transactions, including a minority investment by an international fund, the launch of a load-shedding offering with a leading French energy-market operator, and an external-growth project involving a competitor.
- Advising a Franco-Moroccan group operating call centres on the acquisition of a 300-employee structure in France.
- Advising a French businessman on the acquisition of a US group operating a tourism estate in British Columbia (capex €30M).
- Advising a French biotech start-up on its progressive disposal to a US biotech company with a view to the founder’s full exit.
- Advising a French medtech start-up on its progressive disposal to a foreign acquirer with a view to the founder’s full exit.
- Advising the founders and executive teams on the LBO of an independent specialist in data management, virtualisation and security, with significant reinvestment, in a transaction subject to foreign-investment control and mandatory notification to the French Competition Authority.
- Advising the TALEK group on the structuring of a trademark and know-how licence agreement in connection with a transatlantic industrial transaction.
- Advising the TALEK group on the sale of its 50% stake in its Washington DC industrial site (Bakery de France), dedicated to the production and distribution of bakery products for the US market, to a major Europe-based industrial manufacturer.
- Supporting infrastructure projects incorporating community participation and impact management.
- Legal and strategic support for partnerships with Indigenous communities.
International disputes
- Advising a leading Belgian group specialising in engineering and active in the space, defence, cybersecurity and critical-infrastructure sectors on a dispute brought by the opposing party seeking the enforced performance of a promise to sell a real estate complex.
- Advising a leading Belgian group specialising in engineering and active in the space, defence, cybersecurity and critical-infrastructure sectors on a dispute brought by the opposing party seeking the enforced performance of a promise concerning a real estate asset.
- Advising and representing a British industrial group, a major player in corrugated-cardboard packaging, in a dispute arising from an accident at one of its factories which resulted in the death of an employee of a German subcontractor.
- Advising and representing a French industrial company on a contractual and banking dispute before the French courts, before the Indian courts, and in ICC arbitration proceedings in Singapore against an Indian industrial group, seeking compensation for losses arising from the unlawful termination of two supply contracts for production lines and the blocking of related first-demand bank guarantees.
- Advising a French holding company on a dispute relating to the non-performance of a share purchase undertaking, arising from disagreements between shareholders and forming part of broader connected criminal proceedings with a transnational dimension (France, Portugal and the USA).
- Advising and representing a French premium bakery operator in a commercial dispute with two companies based in Panama and Colombia.
- Advising and representing a leading property trader in a dispute arising from the non-performance of a promise to sell concerning a real estate asset located in Italy.
- Representing a leading French industrial group in the agri-food sector in an ICC commercial arbitration concerning a dispute relating to the termination of established commercial relations and issues involving brand licences in Chile and Colombia.
- Handling employment disputes for an international financial group.
- Representing a French investor, Mr Bachar Kiwan, in an ICSID investment arbitration against Kuwait (Case No. ARB/20/53), initiated in December 2020. The dispute concerns the protection of Mr Kiwan’s investments in the audiovisual sector in Kuwait. He seeks compensation for losses arising from Kuwait’s breaches of foreign-investment protection standards, including fair and equitable treatment, full protection and security, and protection against unlawful expropriation.
- Analysis of maritime disputes and regional sovereignty issues (Montego Bay Convention, dispute-settlement mechanisms).
- Comparative analysis of international instruments and arbitral practices in the Asian context.
International Mobility
- Managing the international secondment of around thirty employees.