Insolvency
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Hall of fameLinklaters LLP
Aymar, the partner in charge of the Restructuring & Insolvency practice at Linklaters Paris, has long-standing experience in operational and financial restructurings of distressed companies, both in the context of out-of-court and formal insolvency proceedings, where he advises all types of stakeholders. His expertise covers all aspects of restructurings, including insolvency-related litigation.
Hall of fameDarrois Villey Maillot Brochier
Partner, head of the restructuring practice Co-managing partner of the firm
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Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
BDGS Associés
Partner advising distressed companies, their boards, their shareholders, their creditors and industrial or financial investors on debt restructurings, distressed M&A, out-of-court negotiations and insolvency proceedings. Recent work includes advising: Crédit Agricole Assurance on the restructuring, through a safeguard plan, of €600 million of debt held by Comexposium, a company co-controlled by Predica and the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and on the adoption by Clariane of a plan to strengthen its financial structure amounting to €1.5 billion with the support of Predica as a reference shareholder; and Groupe Canal+ on the acquisition from Orange of the OCS pay-TV package and its film and series co-production subsidiary, Orange Studio.
Latham & Watkins LLP
Thomas Doyen is a counsel in the Paris office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Restructuring & Special Situations Practice. He has developed important experience in major French pre-insolvency and insolvency proceedings cases as well as high profile out-of-court and complex cross-border restructuring matters in a broad range of industries, acting on behalf of debtors, sponsors, and hedge funds, especially with respect to distressed leveraged buyout (LBO) cases (including loan-to-own/debt-to-equity swap strategies). He also benefits from extensive experience advising corporate entities or special situations funds on the acquisition or sale of distressed businesses through share deals (distressed M&A) or asset deals under insolvency proceedings (plan de cession) and has been regularly involved in restructuring litigation cases and distressed merger and acquisition situations. Mr. Doyen is a member of the ARE, the French Institute of Insolvency Practitioners (Institut Français des Praticiens des Procédures Collectives, or IFPPC), INSOL Europe, and the Young Restructuring Professionals Association (Association des Jeunes Professionnels du Restructuring, or AJR). He has also recently been involved in a working committee of the main restructuring professional association (Association pour le Retournement des Entreprises, or ARE) working on the transposition in France of the EU Directive on restructuring and insolvency. Mr. Doyen also frequently lectures on restructuring matters at business law schools.
Linklaters LLP
Carole joined the firm in 2009 as an Associate before being promoted to the position of Counsel in 2018. Carole has in-depth expertise in the French restructuring and insolvency arena. She specialises in complex domestic and cross-border restructurings, both in the framework of out-of-court and formal insolvency proceedings, where she advises all types of stakeholders. Her practice covers all aspects of financial and operational restructurings, including insolvency-related litigations.
Dentons
Audrey Molina is a Partner in the Dentons Paris office. Audrey focuses in advising stakeholders in insolvency cases such as companies facing difficulties, investors, creditors, managers, shareholders and purchasers of insolvent companies. Her field of experience encompasses pre-insolvency proceedings (i.e., ad hoc mandate and conciliation proceedings) and insolvency proceedings. She also handles litigations in connection with insolvency or corporate issues.
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De Pardieu Brocas Maffei
Ségolène Coiffet, Partner, specialises in debt restructuring, distressed companies, insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings, and particularly within the framework of international transactions. She advises creditors, banks, lease-finance and factoring institutions, providers, as well as companies and their managers and shareholders in the context of disputes opposing them to their commercial partners and in relation to the negotiation and prevention of these disputes. She also intervenes in commercial, banking and financial litigation cases.
Bird & Bird LLP
Romain is a partner in the Restructuring & Insolvency department in Paris. He assists creditors and debtors at all stages of amicable and collective proceedings.
Latham & Watkins LLP
Hervé Diogo Amengual represents international clients in transactional and litigation aspects of restructurings and bankruptcy matters. Mr. Diogo Amengual represents the various parties in a restructuring/bankruptcy context (debtors, lenders and other creditors, prospective purchasers, managers, and shareholders) before, during, and after bankruptcy proceedings. He is also actively involved in the management of the firm, representing the Paris office on the Ethics Committee.
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Partner Timothée Gagnepain focuses his practice on complex restructurings and insolvencies, both national and international. Timothée has a broad-based insolvency and restructuring practice, representing mainly debtors, shareholders, private equity funds, some creditors and trustees. He acts as strategic advisor, negotiator and, when necessary, litigation counsel, and has significant experience before the French bankruptcy courts. He has a wealth of experience in LBO transactions, leveraged recapitalizations and bankruptcies as well as debt and corporate restructurings. Timothée handles complex matters for a range of clients across the real estate, retail and financial sectors. For further details of Timothée biography, please view McDermott website here.
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Thierry Montéran's core business is the right of struggling companies in which at all levels he works with a loyal team that he appreciates and for all sorts of businesses, from the smallest to the most important in all regions of France. Thierry attaches particular importance to sharing, which led him to organize trainings and write many articles. Aware of the loneliness of the entrepreneur in difficulty, he joined Thierry Bellot alongside the accountants in the creation and success of the CIP National, which he chaired for three years. As an activist in the service of companies, Thierry took part alongside Agnes Bricard, President of the Conseil Supérieur of the Order of Chartered Accountants, to create prevention insurance to finance measures to prevent companies in difficulty.
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
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