Renault Thominette Vignaud & Reeve

The partners at Renault Thominette Vignaud & Reeve share a common culture and strive to ensure that the firm is a strategic partner for each of its clients.

In that perspective, we have developed a litigation practice just as strong as our advisory and transactional practice, asserting our commitment to be our clients’ favored partner.

Our synergies and the fully integrated way in which the firm operates allow us to offer tailor-made and creative solutions to our clients, which include industry or services companies, corporate officers and managers, investment funds or shareholders.

The unique, strong and trustful relationship we have established with our clients is the result of the analytical abilities, responsiveness, experience and technical skills of each of the lawyers at Renault Thominette Vignaud & Reeve.

We value our understanding of all challenges at stake for our clients, bearing in mind their economic environment as well as their specificities related to their respective areas of business.

Our experience with some of the most renowned international and niche market law firms allows us to handle the most complex cases, often in cross-borders environments.

Main fields of expertise :

Mergers & Acquisitions – Venture Capital – Private Equity

The field of mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital is constantly changing. It is becoming increasingly complex through the use of new tools and techniques, on which we are qualified to advise you.

Our legal services include advice and assistance with:

• acquisitions of companies, businesses or assets, on behalf of both buyers and sellers;

• private equity deals (LBOs, MBOs and OBOs), during both the initial and build-up phases, on behalf of investment funds, sellers or management teams;

• venture capital transactions.

The firm can provide a full range of legal services from legal due diligence and risk analysis, to structuring, drafting and negotiating contractual documents, post-acquisition matters and follow-up (e.g. shareholders’ agreements and warranties).

Commercial, Contracts and Intellectual Property

The firm assists its clients through all the various phases of commercial relations. Our legal services include advice and assistance with:

• the forming of pre-contractual relations;

• the negotiation and drafting of commercial contracts of all kinds (in particular distribution contracts, franchise contracts, trademark license, assignment and acquisition agreements, as well as commercial leases);

• managing and terminating established commercial relations.

Moreover, in the field of intellectual property, the firm advises its clients at various stages in asserting their rights, in particular by advising them on preliminary searches and every formalities required for protecting trademarks and distinctive signs, and assisting them in defending their intellectual property rights before the relevant authorities and courts (including actions against infringement and unfair competition).

Litigation

Even if litigation may not be desirable at first sight, it should not however be feared.  Indeed, the firm’s philosophy is that litigation, when properly handled, can be leveraged as an asset for its clients.

Thus, whenever necessary, the firm represents its clients before both judicial courts or arbitration panels in connection with simple or complex business litigation.

The firm regularly appears in cases related to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, as well as to business or corporate law issues.  Renault Thominette Vignaud & Reeve has, among other things, developed extensive expertise in the field of litigation between shareholders and litigation involving corporate officers.

The firm represents companies, managers or shareholders, before both civil and criminal courts. Thanks to its close relationships with top-ranking foreign law firms, the firm is capable of coordinating multi-jurisdiction legal proceedings.

Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Procedures

The firm advises businesses that are at insolvency or pre-insolvency stages, as well as investors, creditors and shareholders, both French and non-French, by giving close support in specific circumstances that are usually urgent and complex, due to the number and variety of stakeholders involved.

Our legal services include:

• - diagnosing difficulties,

• - choosing procedures that are appropriate for each situation, from ad hoc administration to judicial liquidation,

• - preparing procedures vis-à-vis the commercial courts and business partners (suppliers, clients and lenders),

• - managing insolvency proceedings: creditors’ claims, securing supplier services, reviewing liabilities and setting up creditors’ committees,

• - managing relationships with court representatives, the commercial courts, regulatory authorities, tax and social security authorities,

• - designing continuation or  safeguard plans,

• - preparing takeover bids for buyers,

• - negotiating agreements as part of ad hoc administration or conciliation arrangements,

• - implementing restructuring plans (redundancy plans, carve-outs and refinancing),

• - formalizing the takeovers following court approval.

The firm’s expertise in the various fields of business law gives us the means to manage all types of situations in the specific environment of distressed companies, and to implement solutions that are likely to ensure their long-term stability.