Mergers and acquisition disputes and litigations among shareholers

Pre-acquisition: breach of pre-contractual negotiations

Application of warranties’ clauses

Price adjustment and earn-out clauses

Interpretation and execution of shareholder agreements: tag and drag-along provisions, preemption rights, shotgun clause, etc. 

Shareholders’ disputes: expertise, ad hoc mandate, derivative actions, undue use of majority or minority powers, exclusion of shareholders, etc. 

Directors and representatives’ liability: management errors, conflict of interest

Commercial litigation

Disputes involving contracts in the event of a breakdown of negotiations, the non-execution or breach of contractual commitments (distribution agreement, vendor agreement, joint-venture agreement, partnership agreement, etc.)

Commercial leases litigation and disputes related to business sales (fonds de commerce): judicial expertise for fixing the rental price or the termination indeminity, early cancellation of leases, ect.

Unlawful competition (disparagement, disorganization, free-riding…)

Restrictive business practices

Consumer claim

Unfair trading practices (consumer information, unlawful advertising, etc.)

Unlawful clauses in general terms of sale

Product conformity and security (AFNOR standards, AOC and AOP certification, health and food safety, INCO regulation, etc.)

Compensation of victims

Antitrust/competition litigation 

Internal and European litigation pertaining to anticompetitive, antitrust and anticoncentration practices 

Representation and appeal before judicial jurisdictions and independent administrative authorities  

Economic litigation and economic dependence litigation 

Contentieux liés à des litiges devant les Autorités administratives independantes AAI (régulatory)

Procédures alternatives aux procédures contentieuses relatives aux infractions au droit de la concurrence (clémence, transaction, engagements, etc.)

Contentieux en responsabilité pour indemnisation du préjudice concurrentiel devant les juridictions de droit commun

Contentieux lié au « legal privilege » en cas d’enquête diligentée par la DGCCRF ou l’Autorité de la Concurrence

Règlements des différents devant les Autorités administratives indépendantes (CNIL, AMF, Autorité de la Concurrence, ARCOM/CSA, ARCEP, ACPR, ARJEL, etc.)

Contentieux liés aux décisions et sanctions prises par les Autorités Administratives Indépendantes (ARCOM/CSA, AMF, Autorité de la Concurrence, etc.)

enforcement procedures

Precautionary measures and enforcement measures

Exequatur litigation

Litigation of intellectual and industrial property

Infringement and free-riding actions

Trademark litigation

Litigation of copyright, production and publishing contracts, etc.

recent REPRESENTATION

• More to come

Mediation

Mediation: judicial, ad-hoc, ICC…

Arbitration

Commercial arbitration before the major arbitral institutions (ICC, LCIA, AAA, CCJA, etc.)

Emergency arbitration and precautionary measures

Investment arbitration based upon bilateral or multilateral treaties on the protection of investments 

Litigation funding  

Enforcement litigation

recent REPRESENTATIONS

• Lead litigation counsel representing one of the largest Saudi company in a +400 million € ICC arbitration against a world leader in energy

• Lead litigation counsel for an African investment company in an ICC arbitration against an African State and an Asian multinational group (+$2 billion demands)

• Lead litigation counsel representing a services and equipment supplier in French and U.S. federal court proceedings to recover a +$500 million Arbitration award against an African national oil company

• Lead litigation counsel representing an African distribution company in a +50 million € ICC arbitration against a multinational world leader in beauty industry