Corporate / M&A – Tax – Private Equity / Finance

• 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.
• 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.

Litigation – Arbitration

• Advising and representing a holding company owning a major food-retail brand operating hypermarkets and supermarkets in the Paris region in a dispute relating to the acquisition of a competing group by a third party, primarily based on an estimate relating to the construction of a shopping centre.
• 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 and representing a company active in the food-retail sector in a dispute relating to damage occurring during the construction of a shopping centre.
• 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 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 leading French industrial group in the bedding sector in a dispute relating to the termination of established commercial relations.
• Advising and representing a real estate asset management group in a dispute concerning commercial leases with an investor group active in the serviced-residence sector.
• Advising and representing a Paris-based group in a dispute with a French company specialising in the distribution of branded products in the fashion sector.
• Advising and representing a French premium bakery operator in a commercial dispute with two companies based in Panama and Colombia.
• Advising and representing a real estate group in a dispute concerning the operation of a major national shopping centre.
• Advising on a shareholder dispute concerning the governance and allocation of share capital in companies operating a leading shopping centre in France.
• Advising on a shareholder dispute linked to succession matters and the reorganisation of the shareholding structure of an emblematic company in the fashion sector.
• Advising on a shareholder dispute concerning the allocation of share capital in a well-known press group, publisher of several specialist titles.
• Advising on a shareholder dispute concerning the shareholding structure of the companies that designed and operate a shopping centre in France.
• 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.
• 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.