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With a dedicated specialists team who works in close cooperation with all the firm’s other departments, we offer our clients a wide range of services in files covering the prevention of business difficulties (conciliation or mandat ad hoc) and insolvency proceedings.

As a market leader, De Pardieu is one of the most widely recognized specialists in the prevention and handling of business difficulties.

Our team advises its clients comprising French and foreign lenders, creditors, listed and unlisted groups, international groups, investors and potential buyers on debt restructuring and corporate reorganisation.

Combining judicial practice with an in-depth experience of complex restructuring transactions, our team works in close cooperation with the firm’s other teams to address all issues specific to each transaction.

Drawing on our wide-ranging experience of crisis situations, we offer comprehensive support to our clients, from the definition of the strategy to the implementation of restructuring schemes, by proposing innovative solutions tailored to our clients’ needs, the context of the case and the stakes involved.

Our solid network of “best friend” law firms enables us to respond to our clients’ cross-border issues while ensuring a high level of technical expertise, regardless of the jurisdiction involved.

Insolvency litigation

Proceedings before the juge commissaire, the Commercial Court and the Cour d’Appel (third-party action, claims, objection(s) to receivables, termination of current contracts, transfer of assets, etc.).
Liability litigation (directors, shareholders, lenders)

Prevention of business difficulties

Assistance with diagnosis and strategy definition: solvency, security balance sheet, liability (of directors, shareholders, etc.), international aspects
Advice to companies or their creditors (banks, bondholders, credit insurers, financial lessors, suppliers or customers) in the context of mandats ad hoc, conciliations or out-of-court settlements.
Assistance to French subsidiaries in bonis of foreign groups subject to amicable settlement or insolvency proceedings in their country of origin

Insolvency proceedings

Representation of creditors, assistance with monitoring missions, filing proof of claims
Representation of companies or investors, preparation of safeguard or continuation plans
Submission of takeover bids (sale plans)
Analysis of effects on the situations of co-contractors, creditors and shareholders

Representation before the CIRI and supervisory authorities

Representation before the CIRI and the supervisory authorities to whom the difficulties of companies under their control are likely to be referred (Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Régulation, Autorité des Marchés Financiers, Commission de la Concurrence, European Commission).