De Pardieu Brocas Maffei
The restructuring and insolvency team at De Pardieu Brocas Maffei provides a comprehensive range of services to distressed companies and their shareholders. Strengthened through collaboration with other departments, the team offers multidisciplinary skill, leveraging the expertise of restructuring and insolvency specialists in conjunction with partners from corporate M&A, finance, employment law, and competition practices. Heading the team are Philippe Dubois and Joanna Gumpelson, both of whom possess extensive experience in representing a diverse client base, including French and foreign investment funds, banks, lease-finance institutions, and debtors. Other key individuals include Ségolène Coiffet, and Clément Maillot-Bouvier, both experienced in advising distressed companies, creditors, and investors in debt restructurings and insolvency proceedings.
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‘With excellent involvement and knowledge of client expectations, this is a multidisciplinary firm able to respond to all the issues of the same file.'
‘Philippe Dubois and Ségolène Coiffet are experienced restructuring lawyers capable of establishing the necessary synergies with other specialists (lawyers, financial advisors, etc.) to carry out a complete analysis of the situation from the different prisms of the discussions.'
‘A senior team which not only has recognised technical expertise, but also assists its clients in the best trading strategy.'
'The team has a very good command of international specificities in the context of restructuring with numerous stakeholders.'
‘Philippe Dubois and Clement Maillot-Bouvier clearly stand out in the Parisian legal restructuring environment in that they know how to combine high-level financial practice with real knowledge of the judiciary. Clement Maillot Bouvier, who is certainly one of the future best actors in the field, also knows how to explain the most complex problems calmly and simply, even when the urgency can make his interlocutors lose their calm.'
‘They offer expertise, technicality, humility and efficiency.'
Key clients
- Alchemy Partners
- Angelo Gordon
- BNP Paribas
- Damartex
- European Investment Bank
- Eiffel
- Farallon
- Goldman Sachs
- Groupe BCPE (Natixis, Bred, Palatine, Caisses d’Epargne et Banque Populaire)
- Groupe Crédit Agricole (CA CIB, LCL, Caisses Régionales)
- Groupe Sea Invest
- Kartesia
- Marie Brizard Wine & Spirits
- Metabolic Explorer
- Renault
- Société Générale
- TDR
- Technicolor
- Tikehau
Work highlights
- Advising a pool of nearly 60 banks on the €9.5bn debt restructuring of Orpea Group, implemented following the approval of an accelerated safeguard plan by the Commercial Court of Nanterre in July 2023.
- Advising Pierre & Vacances – Center Parcs as on its €1.2bn debt restructuring, implemented following the approval of an accelerated safeguard plan by the Commercial Court of Paris in July 2022.
- Advising a pool of banks in the context of the financial restructuring of the group Agapes Restauration, operating notably Flunch, Il Restorante, 3 Brasseurs and Salad & Co, implemented following the approval of a conciliation agreement by the Commercial court of Lille Métropole in July 2021.
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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.