Work Department

Restructuring & Insolvency

Position

Senior associate advising debtors, shareholders, investors and creditors on all aspects of company restructuring both as part of out-of-court processes or more formal insolvency proceedings (financial, operational or industrial restructurings, LBO restructurings, distressed M&A transactions, asset deals in insolvency, including prepackaged sale plans, related issues and litigation).

Recent work on public matters includes advising: Crédit Agricole Assurances in its capacity as shareholder of Clariane as part of the €1.5 billion plan to strengthen its financial structure; Peugeot Motocyles for the take-over of a manufacturer of electric motorbikes as part of a prepack sale plan; Canal + on the acquisition of OCS and Orange Studios; and Crédit Agricole Assurances in its capacity as shareholder of Comexposium as part of the execution of its safeguard plan having restructured its financial indebtedness amounting to €600m. Laurène has also been involved in a number of confidential strategic matters.

Education

Admitted to the Paris Bar (2017)

Master’s Degree in Restructuring, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2015)

Master’s Degree in Business Law, Université de Nantes (2014)

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