Pre-Insolvency, Restructuring & Disputes
Anticipating financial difficulties, restructuring debt, supporting distressed acquisitions and resolving disputes
All the expertise of our trusted partner
PREVENTING FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES
Pre-insolvency & Restructuring
We step in as soon as difficulties arise that may affect a company’s business, cash flow, financing or capital structure, to assess the situation, identify the available options and define the strategy to implement.
We assist companies and their management in negotiations with creditors and lenders, whether outside any formal process or within a mandat ad hoc or conciliation (confidential French pre-insolvency proceedings).
Our work includes restructuring debt and financing arrangements, negotiating moratoriums and standstill agreements, dealing with security and guarantees, putting new money in place, and negotiating and documenting restructuring agreements.
INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS
Advising companies and creditors
We act in safeguard, judicial reorganisation and judicial liquidation proceedings, on behalf of companies, creditors or works councils (CSE).
We advise them on defining their strategy, on their dealings with court-appointed officers and other stakeholders, and on negotiating and implementing restructuring solutions.
We also assist creditors in protecting and enforcing their rights, particularly in relation to claims, security and guarantees, and ongoing contracts.
Distressed M&A
Acquiring distressed companies and assets
We advise investors and buyers on preparing, drafting and submitting bids for distressed businesses and assets, presenting them at the court hearing and, where appropriate, drafting the sale documentation on behalf of the buyer or the court-appointed officers.
COMMERCIAL DISPUTES
Dispute resolution
We act in commercial, banking and finance matters, from pre-litigation dispute management through to court proceedings.
Our practice covers in particular contractual and financing disputes, as well as debt recovery.
Defending directors is a key part of our practice, particularly where they face liability claims or sanctions in connection with insolvency proceedings.
Our approach is to seek and build a negotiated solution where it best serves the client’s interests and, where litigation is unavoidable, to defend those interests before the civil and commercial courts.
Our Pre-Insolvency, Restructuring & Disputes trusted partner
Constancy Verroust-Valliot
To complement its work with businesses, business leaders and shareholders, Calypso Avocats works closely with Constance Verroust-Valliot, a trusted partner lawyer dedicated to preventing and resolving financial difficulties, restructuring and commercial disputes.
With more than thirty years of experience, Constance Verroust-Valliot has developed in-depth expertise in banking and finance. She spent fifteen years in the litigation and special situations departments of Société Générale before joining the Paris Bar. She now focuses her practice on the complex situations faced by companies, their leaders and their shareholders.
