BDGS Associés

Restructuring & Insolvency

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.

Henri joined BDGS Associés as partner in 2020. He began his career in a French law firm, and he spent six years at Weil, Gotshal & Manges and one year at Herbert Smith Freehills.

French and English

Member of the “Association pour le Retournement des Entreprises” (ARE) (French business turnaround association). Member of Insol Europe.

Paris Bar (2011) Master’s Degree in Private International Law and International Trade Law, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2009) Master’s Degree in Private Law, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2008)