Safety Measures and restructuring

• Alert procedures
• Assistance, representation and restructuring of distressed companies
• Transfer by a group of its stake in a distressed company, voluntary liquidation of said company
• Assistance in procedures for the continuation of a company in financial difficulty
• Negotiations with creditors (debt restructuring, standstill agreements, etc.) and implementation of refinancing agreements
• Negotiations with different social partners
• Assistance to distressed companies in leveraged buy-outs (LBOs)
• Preventive procedures: ad hoc representative, conciliation

Insolvency procedures (safeguard proceeding, judicial reorganisation and court-ordered liquidation)

Acting in an advisory capacity (including assistance, representation and actif before courts and other procedural bodies)

On behalf of the corporation: 

• Choice, preparation and implementation of the procedure;
• Counsel during the observation period;
• Drawing up, implementation and follow-up of safeguard plan or continuation plan
• Negotiation with creditors (individually or in the framework of creditors committees) and implementation of agreements
• Assistance with employment law aspects
• Dealing with issues related to the possible Stock Exchange listing of the company

On behalf of the rescuer: 

• Drawing up and implementation of transfer plan, proposal of assets repurchase
• Acquisition of stake in share capital within the framework of a continuation plan (through internal restructuring)

On behalf of shareholders:

• Assistance to shareholders or to the group to whom the distressed company belongs

On behalf of corporate creditors and co-contracting parties:

• Organisation of, and counsel for, the defense of their interests
• Representation (controller)

Specific litigation related to the distressed company

• Litigation arising from the continuation of the foregoing activities
• Litigation related to conflicts between creditors (for example: direct action)
• Liability suits against corporate directors