Insolvency in France

‘Complementarity and remarkable competence of the team.’

‘The team is available, easy to access and works with a real team spirit.’

‘François Kopf is a good professional who fiercely defends the interests of his client.’

‘They know how to work in a team, internally and with the client. The level of expertise is excellent, including when several legal specialties are necessary for the proper handling of the case. The team also demonstrates great moral rectitude.’

‘Clearly the leading firm in Paris for its expertise.’

‘François Kopf is the best! Skillful, fast, brilliant and efficient. Mathieu Della Vittoria is a future reference in the field.’

‘Combines unfailing legal expertise with a concern for efficiency and realism. Always a solution provider, consensual, respected by their colleagues, available.’

‘One flawless professionalism, rigour and listening.’

‘Availability, reliability and ability to adapt to the reality of the case by taking into account the reality of the case and the objectives set by their clients, which allows to be proactive in cases’.

‘Philippe Dubois and Ségolène Coiffet have a great capacity to unite actors with opposing positions by finding a common denominator and by having the capacity to put forward what brings people together, which is quite rare.’

‘Expertise, common sense, knowledge of the restructuring ecosystem and practical experience.’

‘The Paris insolvency team is made up of exceptional individuals (Alexandra Bigot and Thomas Doyen) and  is uniquely positioned to handle large-scale, complex cross-border cases.’

‘Alexandra Bigot is the most technical and most hardworking insolvency practioner in Paris.’

‘24/7 available. Very commercial lawyers and keen to get the job done (which they did in an impeccable way).’

‘The restructuring team is at the highest level of technical expertise on these complex subjects The quality of the team, recognised on the market, makes it a key player and trusted by all stakeholders.’

‘Alexandra Bigot is a reference in the field and is a recognised interlocutor among the various stakeholders. In addition to her perfect technical mastery, Alexandra is an outstanding negotiator. She provides some of most sought-after advice on the market.’

‘The team led by Jean Dominique Daudier Cassini is one of the most beautiful restructuring teams in the Place de Paris. Professionally: the best! The plus: the kindness, availability and benevolence of Jean -Dominique.’

‘Jean Dominique Daudier de Cassini has a remarkable knowledge of his practice and knows how to apply it brilliantly. A great man in the field of restructuring.’

‘Experts at advising large corporates. Strong complementarity between the restructuring, M&A and financing team .. a leader’.

‘Anne-Sophie Noury is expert and very available. She is skilled and creative.’

‘They have deep knowledge of the French legal environment and have relationships with the key people involved in insolvency proceedings (administrator, French institutions, lawyers…) which helps to ease the process. They are very innovative and creative  in finding solutions to the problems.’

‘Anne-Sophie Noury is absolutely brilliant at finding new ways to approach problems. She has connections with many people and is also able to give a realistic view of the situation to the client so that it can take a decision.’

‘Alexis Hojabr has very good potential; he is business-oriented  and understands perfectly the forces in presence to draw the path for solutions for his clients.’

‘Very high technique and has worked on very significant complex and innovative landmark deals; committed.’

‘Saam Golshani and Alexis Hojabr are among the very best.’

‘The team of partners shows great availability, intellectual agility, great pedagogy and great courtesy. Nicolas Morelli is a very great lawyer, who demonstrates accuracy and finesse in his legal analysis as well as good balance in negotiations.’

‘Great ability to listen and to make accessible and intelligible elements that are not accessible to business leaders. Great ability to understand the context and the challenges for the company; excellent ability to take the bird’s eye view and to step aside always at the right time. Provider of solutions and different scenarios. Professional and experienced team.’

‘Ability to mobilise quickly to bid on a file. Romain de Ménonville’s team is used to working with banks and is now well known and recognised even at local bank level (which makes it easier to choose a consultant when there are multiple banks). A well-established and attentive team.’

‘Excellent team. Very constructive, transaction-oriented and good pedagogy to assist clients with decision making’

‘The team structured around Laurent Cotret brings together a complete set of strong skills in relation to all the delicate issues encountered when the company is in difficulty. The team is attentive to deadlines and to the human aspect.’

‘Laurent Cotret has a professional analytical approach which makes it possible to immediately prioritise problems and get to the point.’

‘The team is robust on national and international issues. The team is equally at ease handling amicable and legal proceedings, as well as matters regarding liability of directors.’

‘Laurent Cotret demonstrates rigour, creativity, and does not hesitate to find innovative solutions. Charles Morel, through the excellence of his analyses and the roundedness of his approaches, allows the team to be perfectly complete.’

‘Small and responsive team. Listens, is available and efficient.’

‘Very informed and connected. Very good advice, especially on tactical aspects.’

‘Its combination between technical knowledge and practical experience is its most remarkable strength.’

‘We appreciated the exceptional availability and competence of Nicolas Laurent who offered us not obvious solutions, which are the result of a great experience.’

‘Probably the strongest legal and deal-making know-how in Paris.’

‘Good balance between partners who advise and make deals, in contact with clients, and the teams below who provide execution skills.’

‘Bruno Robin and Romain Lantourne are excellent.’

‘Great adaptability and gifted individuals.’

‘Edouard Fabre is  a great professional to work with. He has a huge talent to simplify complex cases. He always finds the stronger basis on which to position our company well in complex cases.’

‘Dedicated and small team that follows the entire negotiations. Extensive preparation, great ability to anticipate the strategies developed by other parties. Good complementarity with the other teams of the firm which allows them to be proactive in the search for a solution.’

‘Céline Domenget-Morin is very available, very attentive. She anticipates possible sticking points in the discussions and has relationships with the various stakeholders.’

‘A very professional team at the service of creditors. A perfect mastery of business issues.’

‘The members of the team are very involved, lead the negotiations according to the directions given by the clients and do not forget to show pragmatism and creativity.’

‘The team is experienced, competent, attentive to the client, responsive, committed, with a strong capacity for work.’

‘We worked with Céline Domenget-Morin, who is very experienced, very competent, and knows all the players in restructuring very well.’

‘A dynamic and very knowledgeable team.’

‘Rapid understanding of issues.’

‘Very good team led by Laurent Jourdan.’

‘Availability and efficiency; intelligent and adapted solutions.’

‘Multidisciplinary. Dealmaker. Very good transversal view.’

‘A dynamic, united, innovative and available team.’

‘Excellent interpersonal skills, great availability.’

‘The team is particularly flexible, creative and available to deal with difficulties. They easily collaborate with other departments (eg M&A or financing) and other firms if necessary. Team creativity is distinctive.’

‘The practice is very well integrated within the firm and allows clients like us to access a complete offer covering restructuring, banking, capital market, in France as well as in the United Kingdom and the USA.’

‘Lionel Spizzichino is extremely well connected, responsive, available, commercial and ‘user-friendly’!’

‘Lionel Spizzichino and Batiste Saint-Guily show: absolute excellence and experience on technical aspects; total confidence which is necessary to execute our complex transactions; ability to produce large volumes of documentation in record time; unique creativity for the complex situations we are working on; talent and ability to advise beyond pure legality and the ability to express strong points of view on business and commercial aspects that are very important to us.’

‘Lionel Spizzichino does not hesitate to share his extraordinary network and put his encyclopedic knowledge of market players at the service of success of its clients, and that whatever the size of the deal, delivering much more than a legal service of a quality unmatched by other business firms with which we work, but a total advisory service that would make more than one investment bank blush.’

‘Very fine knowledge of cases and sound advice.’

‘Proximity in exchanges, great availability and pedagogy on complex and infrequent cases (as far as we are concerned). Detailed invoicing which allows the verification and measurement of the work provided.’

‘We only work with Gilles Podeur. We appreciate our collaboration for its great availability, the respect of deadlines, the pedagogy provided in the explanation of the files.’

‘A high-performing firm.’

‘Very responsive team.’

‘Combative on complicated issues.’

‘Very high availability, very high efficiency and professionalism.’

‘An ability to listen, rapid response, very accessible people and in search of client satisfaction.’

‘An extremely responsive team, very good knowledge of the environment and great understanding of situations.’

‘Henri Cazala is very attentive, a great professional who knows how to adapt to situations.’

‘Henri Cazala is a promising young partner who has the advantage of being very efficient thanks to his very technical knowledge of this subject, with very good availability and a real desire to seek solutions.’

‘A firm which enjoys a growing notoriety and reputation, a reflection of the quality of the work carried out.’

‘Henri is a lawyer with whom we like to work because he is both technical and business-oriented: he takes the time to understand his client ‘s activity before developing legal solutions. We appreciate both his strategic side in action and advice. In addition, he promotes consensus through his calm and the relevance of his proposals. From what I have been able to judge on a personal basis, Henri is young, curious and flexible while being very mature from a professional point of view.’

‘Excellent team within an exceptional firm.’

‘Henri Cazala is a particularly efficient dealmaker, technically remarkable and always attentive to our needs. He knows the players in restructuring perfectly and knows how to create a climate of trust conducive to the success of the project. His associate Laurène Boyer is also excellent.’

‘Henri Cazala is a very rigorous, responsive and inventive lawyer.’

‘Véronique Dobelle’s team is extremely capable and fast. She is extremely competent in the field of restructuring and guarantees the best solutions for clients’.

‘The team is organised and efficient and extremely capable.  They are thorough and available around the clock.  They are always up to date with the latest legal happenings, and are able to draw on expertise across the industry. Mylène Boché-Robinet is very sharp, very able. Always available. Able to identify the issues and explain them succinctly and clearly. Sorts through complicated structures and fact situations to find solutions that are commercial, creative and smart. Excellent communicator. Absolutely top notch.’

‘A boutique firm that is able to handle any assignment (large or small) in an efficient and superior matter. The lawyers think strategically about the global effects of each decision and work well collaboratively with other lawyers all over the world to provide effective results on cross-border insolvency matters, restructurings, and contract negotiations.’

‘Mylène Boché-Robinet is a stand-out partner; she is very accomplished, proficient and a very good advocate.  She is very knowledgeable about all aspects of insolvency law both in France and globally. She carefully provides advice to clients in a cost-effective matter. Her advice is effective and commercial in nature. She has a keen sense of what the client wants and how to get there, even if that requires nontraditional thinking.’

‘Very responsive and diligent, very high level of specialisation and quality, very adept with modern communication tools. Mylène Boché-Robinet has exceptional know-how and negotiation skills, remains calm in difficult situations, and shows exceptional dedication to her work.’

‘I worked with Mylène Boché-Robinet and I was able to appreciate her professionalism, her responsiveness, her availability, her ability to adapt and above all her extremely relevant analysis as soon as I asked her. Mylène has a talent for simplifying complicated things and serenely apprehending complex situations.’

‘A cohesive and dynamic team, involved, innovative, which does not hesitate to consider new solutions adapted to the situation. Mylène Boché-Robinet is first of all a great specialist in restructuring procedures, but also a nice person, attentive to her clients, very involved in saving the company, while being aware of the limits of the solutions it proposes and therefore working to make them acceptable to the parties concerned.’

‘A perfect knowledge of French law on insolvency, a great knowledge of the issues related specifically to cross-border insolvency proceedings, which is rare on the market. It is all the more rare to find these qualities within a French structure of a human scale, compared to large international firms, which affects the invoicing which, for at least equivalent work, is more competitive. The work provided is delivered with seriousness and the subjects are treated in depth. The team is very available, whether at the level of partners or associates, which greatly contributes to the efficiency and seriousness of its work on the files entrusted to it.’

‘A close-knit team and good cooperation with the other departments of the firm.’

‘Delphine Caramalli knows how to find the right tone to tackle the most complex issues.’

‘Me Guillaume Bouté is a remarkable technically excellent lawyer, very precise, rigorous and always available.’

‘A full-service firm with an international presence, which is an asset in the processing of cases. The lawyers of the restructuring team know how to coordinate the intervention of their international colleagues. They also know how to adapt to their interlocutors and they demonstrate a reactivity, a pragmatism and an availability which make it possible to make good progress on the files.’

‘I mainly worked with Alexandre Bastos, who is a pugnacious negotiator. He makes a strong contribution to finding original solutions, making it possible to reconcile several issues. Beyond Alexandre, his team shows real involvement. The lawyers are really available and listen to their clients.’

‘Exceptional mobilisation in case of emergency, very strong cohesion within the team. Negotiation of fees on a case-by-case basis.’

‘Alexandre Bastos shows pugnacity in discussions, total mastery of subjects faced by companies in difficulty and restructuring. Guillaume Bouté shows good mastery of subjects, pragmatism, effective advice, remarkable availability’.

‘Responsiveness and competence.’

‘Personalised approach, attention to detail and great follow-up.’

‘Very available team that provides sound advice to support companies in times of difficulty and who has remarkable influence on legal proceedings to help clients.’

‘The team is very professional, very involved in negotiations, and gets to the bottom of things.’

‘The team is first-rate. In particular, Jean-Gabriel Flandrois is deeply knowledgeable and well connected. He has real expertise in helping multinational companies navigate the complexities of French restructuring law. What’s more, his English language skills are first-rate.’

‘Jean-Gabriel Flandrois is highly recommended.’

‘Multidisciplinary team, very well-coordinated and covering all the situations with which a company in difficulty is confronted.’

‘Commitment, competence, adaptability, proximity.’

‘The team has very recognised experience on the market, with an ability to find innovative and realistic solutions and to take into account the interests of their client and of a balanced transaction, making it easier to find a solution. Their technical expertise allows them to offer tailored solutions adapted to the specific context of each case.’

‘Fabienne Beuzit, Rodolphe Carrière and Elodie Fabre demonstrate great listening abilities, allowing them to fully understand issues at stake and to propose the most appropriate solution. They are also remarkably available to their clients. Their diagnoses of situations are very sharp and they know who the best experts to call for each specific subjects are and how to build a global solution.’

‘Dynamic team, attentive to their clients.’

‘Excellent team, very professional and very transaction-oriented.’

‘Very good availability, great experience and pedagogy to help customers to make up their choices in difficult times.’

‘A ‘full-service’ offer which is in fact ‘best-of-breed’ rather than ‘one-stop-shop’!’

‘Fabienne Beuzit has an exceptional capacity for listening and understanding: few lawyers really understand business issues while demonstrating emotional intelligence. Fabienne also has a very constructive outspokenness that allows you to get to the essentials quickly.’

‘Fabienne Beuzit shows great ability to adapt and help rapid decision-making in the process of taking over companies facing difficulties’.

‘The team is very aware of market practices (constantly evolving in this Covid-19 period). The fluid professional relationships that the restructuring team maintains with the various market players help to resolve very effectively the restructurings in which it is involved. All the members of the team are involved, responsive and proactive, with a constant concern for the interests of the client, whatever the problems encountered.’

‘Timothée Gagnepain is personally involved in all important aspects of the files and is very available. His presence in particular in the negotiations is invaluable, his interventions particularly relevant and his energy in resolving blocking points highly appreciated. His associate Théophile Jomier is excellent, both in his relations with clients and in his legal approach to cases. Lucille Madariaga is also greatly appreciated for her responsiveness and in-depth knowledge of the cases handled.’

‘Great team and firm.’

‘The team is incredibly knowledgeable in insolvency proceedings. From the early guidance through resolution, we found the team collaborative with other counsellors, with the state, and with the administrator.’

‘Timothée Gagnepain and Théophile Jomier were EXCELLENT legal representatives of our case. They were incredibly responsive. We were always made to feel that our case was of the utmost importance to them, even as the case was wrapping up.’

‘A small and structured team which positioned itself on the biggest files. Indispensable team in the restructuring sector.’

‘Timothée Gagnepain is well known in the business. Also qualified at the NYC bar, Timothée is versatile and a formidable litigator!  It is also worth noting the great qualities of Lucille Madariaga who is on the path of becoming a partner.’

‘Philippe Hameau has great experience and excellent ability to adapt his advice and strategy to the size and the stakes of matters at hand’.

‘The team is international and therefore can respond to many issues precisely and quickly. As far as France is concerned, the team has an important network which allows it to fully understand the ins and outs of a case. Finally, the team is made up of lawyers specialising in the various fields that a company in difficulty will need.’

‘Easy to access, natural, speaking a simple language that manufacturers and business owners can understand. The relationship is easy.’

‘Responsiveness, friendliness, good support in difficult times.’

‘Great humanity in the treatment of files, with a high level of technicality; great experience coupled with a lot of finesse.’

‘Unique knowledge of bankruptcy proceedings and of the transfer of assets during judicial liquidations. I do not know of any other law firm that has this level of expertise on that specific point. Availability, seriousness, creativity, dynamism.’

‘The individuals combined the following skills: detailed knowledge of their area of expertise, strong performance in challenging situations in defending their clients interests; attention to detail and ability to deal with a high volume of complex information: and strong interpersonal skills in assisting their clients throughout stressful and distressing situations, taking into account language and cultural barriers.’

‘Excellent legal expertise.’

‘The firm has specialised resources in different areas which make it very efficient in dealing with distressed companies’ situations. Great corporate law support during the insolvency and takeover process and follow-up regarding financing and litigation issues with service providers and former employees. The firm does not just answer legal questions, but suggests possible solutions to its clients.’

‘Our contacts are very dynamic and accessible. We feel like they really take our concerns to heart. We really feel free to discuss any subject with confidence.’

‘Really knowledgeable and super responsive. They have the legal know-how, but also the understanding of our business concept.’

‘Thierry Montéran and Marine Simmonot are both excellent’.