Expertises
Business and contract law, corporate law, labour law, dispute resolution, financing law, companies in difficulty: Exponens Avocats‘ lawyers work with you in all areas of business life, in a national or international environment, in both French and English.
Business and contract law
Exponens Avocats advises you in the setting up of your projects as well as in the drafting of your contracts.
- Setting up projects in France and abroad
- Drafting and negotiation of company contracts
- Drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts (including supply of services)
- Drafting and negotiation of alliances, joint ventures and partnership contracts
- Drafting of general terms and conditions of sale and purchase (B to B and B to C)
- Drafting of commercial and professional leases
- Framework agreements and implementation contracts
Corporate law
Exponens Avocats offers its clients specific and adapted support at all stages of their development, from incorporation to external growth operations or the restructuring of certain business lines.
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Transfer of shares
- Transfer of business assets: due diligence and contract drafting
- Opening of share capital, issue of complex securities
- Restructuring (TUP, merger, amicable liquidation)
- Advice and assistance to managers
- Drafting of shareholders’ agreements
- Setting up of companies and drafting minutes of meetings (shareholders and board of directors); etc.
LITIGATION
- Negotiation and drafting of settlement agreements
- Assistance before the Labour Court and the Court of Appeal
- Workplace accidents, occupational diseases
COLLECTIVE LABOR RELATIONS
- Drafting of collective agreements (working hours, fixed day rates, teleworking, long-term unemployment agreements, etc.)
- Drafting of internal regulations
- Setting up of staff representative institutions
- Drafting of company saving plans, profit-sharing and incentive agreements
- Redundancy for economic reasons (individual and collective)
- Social due diligence in the context of a company transfer, merger or acquisition
- Litigation of union elections
Settlement of disputes
Exponens Avocats provides its clients with tailored strategic support to settle a dispute before the courts or during the implementation of alternative dispute resolution methods.
- Drafting and negotiation of contractual claims
- Settlement agreements
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Business law litigation
- Arbitration (ICC and ad hoc)
Financing law
Exponens Avocats guides its clients in their relations with banks, credit institutions, funds and markets, in order to support their development strategy and to secure the financial transactions and guarantees made.
- Loans: syndicated, mortgage, club deal, bilateral, commitments by signature as financial guarantees of completion
- Capital increase listed companies
- Shareholders loans
- Centralized cash management agreements
- Bond issues
- Future contracts and derivatives
- Real and personal guarantees (pledge, surety, first request guarantee, Dailly form, delegation)
Companies in difficulty
Exponens Avocats implements solutions to get out of a crisis, facilitated by a strengthened cooperation and a permanent exchange with our certified accountants and all other professional.
Companies in difficulty and their managers are thus offered a comprehensive service in the following areas:
- Identification of company difficulties
- Prevention and amicable treatment of companies’ difficulties
- Prevention and judicial treatment of company difficulties
- Financial, legal, administrative and social structuring and restructuring of companies in difficulty
- Procedures of ad hoc mandate, conciliation, safeguard, recovery and judicial liquidation
- Advice and representation of company managers
- Advice and representation of legal administrators and receivers
Social and labor law
Exponens Avocats advises French and foreign companies on a daily basis on employment, labour and social security law issues and represents them in individual or collective disputes.
INDIVIDUAL LABOR RELATIONS
Advice to foreign companies established in France or without establishments in France (RFE) in employment and social security law: