CREDENTIALS
international
International transactions
- Advising an international airport-services operator in connection with a strategic capital increase enabling a major French banking group, through several of its investment entities, to become a minority shareholder alongside the founder.
- 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 and representing a major British industrial group in the corrugated-cardboard packaging sector in connection with an accident at one of its plants.
- Advising and representing a French industrial company in contractual and banking litigation before the French and Indian courts and in proceedings before the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Singapore against an Indian industrial group, seeking compensation for losses resulting from the wrongful termination of two supply agreements relating to the delivery of production lines and the discharge of the related first-demand bank guarantees.
- Advising and representing a French holding company in a dispute relating to the failure to perform an undertaking to transfer shares, arising out of disputes between shareholders forming part of broader related cross-border criminal proceedings in France, Portugal and the United States.
- Advising and representing a French premium bakery operator in international arbitration proceedings against two companies based in Panama and Colombia.
- Advising and representing a leading property trader in a damages claim arising from the non-performance of an undertaking to sell a real estate asset located in Italy.
- Advising an international financial group on collective employment disputes.
- Advising and representing a leading French industrial group in the agri-food sector in an ICC commercial arbitration concerning the termination of established commercial relationships and brand-licensing issues in Chile and Colombia.
- Advising and representing a French investor, Mr Bachar Kiwan, in an ICSID investment arbitration against Kuwait (Case No. ARB/20/53) concerning the audiovisual sector in Kuwait.
- Analysis of maritime disputes and regional sovereignty issues in Asia (Montego Bay Convention, dispute-settlement mechanisms).
- Comparative analysis of international instruments and arbitral practices in the Asian context.
- Advising and representing clients in a dispute between heirs and shareholders relating to succession issues and the reorganisation of the shareholding structure of an iconic international fashion group.
- Advising and representing an international technology consulting and engineering group specialising in digital transformation, data, cybersecurity and digital solutions in a shareholder dispute concerning the exit of the minority shareholder of a foreign subsidiary and the financial terms governing the termination of his corporate office and employment positions within other group subsidiaries in Asia and the Middle East following the acquisition of the group.
- Advising and representing a transport group in a shareholder dispute concerning the governance of a group specialising in the management and leasing of freight wagons in Europe.
- Advising and representing an HNWI in a dispute with a leading holding group in the fashion sector concerning, in particular, repayment of a shareholder current account, alleged management misconduct in relation to the company’s activities in France and China, and the terms of the client’s exit from the company’s share capital.
- Advising and representing a client incorporated under Swiss law in professional-negligence proceedings against a Milan-based lawyer.
- Advising and representing a global leader in the high-end textile segment in a commercial dispute with the French subsidiary of an independent Italian consulting firm.
- Advising and representing a French consulting firm specialising in strategic, operational and marketing advice to luxury-hospitality and yachting businesses in an unfair-competition dispute in the luxury-concierge sector spanning Europe, Morocco, Russia and the Middle East.
International Mobility
- Managing the international secondment of around thirty employees.