Guilhem Affre

Partner

Expertise

  • Litigation – Arbitration
  • High-risk litigation
  • White-collar crime

Biography

Within the firm, Guilhem leads a multidisciplinary team of specialist litigators, and coordinates external experts dedicated to a specific dispute, enabling him to design and personally drive procedural strategy and appear before civil, commercial, criminal and employment courts.

He advises clients across a wide range of sectors, including real estate, construction, transport and logistics, telecoms, industry, serviced residences and property management, professional services, start-ups (biotech and medtech), luxury, food service, hospitality, retail and franchising.

Guilhem is regularly instructed in highly complex or mass litigation, particularly in relation to commercial leases, unfair competition, disruption of distribution networks, abrupt termination of established business relationships, shareholder disputes and share transfers, as well as high-stakes employment and/or criminal litigation.

He also acts in arbitration proceedings, including matters conducted under the rules of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

He is a member of the “Law and Procedure” association of the Paris Bar.

  • Advising and representing an investment fund in litigation arising out of the removal of a minority shareholder and a capital restructuring, involving the restitution of shares.
  • Advising and representing a leading group in proceedings challenging a universal transfer of assets and liabilities (transmission universelle de patrimoine – TUP) and seeking the annulment of resolutions passed at an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting.
  • 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 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 leading group of managed serviced residences in large-scale mass litigation brought by investors following real estate investment transactions.
  • Advising and representing a leading group of serviced residences in complex litigation relating to the transfer of managed serviced residences following safeguard proceedings.
  • Advising and representing a group of companies and its executive in criminal proceedings initiated by direct summons in relation to allegations of defamation, insult and violence.
  • Advising and representing the director of a French company (société par actions simplifiée – SAS) in proceedings concerning his civil liability for alleged mismanagement following a tax audit, before the Economic Activities Court, as well as in proceedings before the enforcement judge challenging precautionary attachments.
  • Advising and representing a leading group of managed serviced residences in mass litigation involving claims for the annulment of real estate transactions and compensation for alleged loss of rental returns in connection with the development and management of a serviced residence.
  • Advising and representing a specialised French company in debt recovery proceedings against thirty companies operating senior living residences, for the recovery of unpaid rent.
  • Advising and representing a leading group of managed serviced residences in connection with a criminal complaint alleging forgery and the use of forged documents.

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