Practice

Restructuring

A succession of crises has exacerbated the financial difficulties of many companies, which must contend with complex and strategic restructuring challenges. We assist you in these delicate situations by offering our cross-disciplinary expertise and our recognised experience in financial restructuring and collective procedures.

Our Restructuring team, among the market leaders, is composed of lawyers with extensive experience in preventive and collective procedures, both in France and internationally. Our integrated and comprehensive approach allows our Restructuring team to leverage the expertise of our specialists in complementary areas of law, particularly finance, real estate, labor law, and taxation, thereby offering clients a full and high-quality service.

The scope of our team’s activities ranges from preventing business difficulties through amicable procedures to addressing these challenges within the framework of collective procedures. The team works with all types of clients, both domestic and international (debtor, creditor, shareholder, acquirer, investor, bank, borrower, and manager), providing both advisory and litigation services across a wide variety of industries. The team has also developed recognized expertise in Distressed M&A.

The Restructuring team has recently been involved in high-profile restructuring cases, such as Orpea and Technicolor, alongside major industry players.

The team has also assisted major players in both the French and international markets, such as the French State’s Investment Agency, the French energy distribution company RTE, international financial groups, banks like Société Générale and BNP Paribas, investment funds, large industrial groups, the key defense player Naval Group, companies active in innovative and new technologies like Dreem SAS and Transperfect, as well as numerous biotech firms.

We assist our clients with all aspects of preventive restructuring (ad hoc mandates and conciliation) and insolvency proceedings (safeguard, court-ordered receivership and judicial liquidation proceedings) in both advisory and litigation matters.

  • We assist debtors in preventive procedures (such as mandated ad hoc or conciliation) to address the financial, legal, economic, managerial, or structural difficulties they may face, as well as creditors and/or shareholders of distressed debtors within the scope of these procedures to protect their rights ;
  • We represent debtors in safeguard, recovery, or liquidation proceedings, as well as creditors and/or shareholders of companies in collective procedures to protect their rights. We also represent French and foreign investors in submitting takeover bids for assets and activities of a company in collective proceedings ;
  • We assist company directors in recovery or liquidation proceedings who are facing personal sanctions (personal bankruptcy, ban on management) and/or financial penalties (liability for insufficiency of assets) ;
  • We also act on behalf of French or foreign acquirers/investors, particularly for taking stakes in distressed companies within a preventive framework (mandated ad hoc/conciliation) or a collective framework (safeguard/ judicial recovery).

Awards

  • Chambers Global/Europe - France 2024

    Corporate/M&A: High-End Capability

    Band 2

    Gide combines strong French expertise with the ability to advise international companies on cross-border matters, notably in relation to European and African jurisdictions. The lawyers regularly handle sophisticated joint venture and M&A transactions, as well as corporate structure issues.

  • Legal 500 EMEA - France 2024

    Insolvency

    Tier 4

    Very dynamic team that knows how to deal with complex situations with rare technical mastery, a lot of pragmatism and great humanity. They are one of the best teams on the market.

  • Chambers Global/Europe - Turkey 2024

    Corporate/M&A

    Band 5

    ODSA offers notable experience in handling cross-border transactions for domestic and international clients. The team boasts extensive experience in advising on asset deals. The lawyers act for clients from a range of sectors including insurance, entertainment and technology.

  • IFLR1000 - France 2024

    Restructuring & Insolvency

    Tier 3

    Gide is recognised in the following practice : Restructuring and Insolvency.