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Insolvency & Restructuring

Head of Insolvency & Restructuring team. Alexandre Bastos is a partner responsible for the Insolvency-Restructuring Department at CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats. His background in both law and finance is a valuable asset that enables him to embrace all aspects of the cases entrusted to him.

His advice and litigation work encompasses a full spectrum: emergency procedures/preventive procedures: ad-hoc mandate, conciliation (debt restructuring, standstill agreements, refinancing agreements, implementation of safeguards, negotiations at the CIRI [Comité interministériel de restructuration industrielle, the French Interministerial Committee on Industrial Restructuring], etc.), restructuring of companies through the adoption of safeguard or receivership plans, takeover of companies in difficulty, management of bankruptcy procedures, etc.

He works alongside the company in difficulty as well as its buyer, shareholders, creditors or contracting partners.

Alexandre handles litigation related to the company in difficulty: rights disputes between creditors, civil liability proceedings against directors etc.

Alexandre joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 2003, and became a partner in January 2016.

French, English.

ESSEC Business School. Master's degree in Corporate Law and Taxation (DJCE), University of Paris II - Panthéon-Assas. Fresfields Price - Les Echos best business law student of the year (1998)