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Founded in 1953, Degroux Brugère has historically been specialised in providing tax advice to family groups and private clients including corporate founders and managers, more specifically on business transfers matters, mergers and acquisitions, asset management as well as tax audits.

The firm has also developed a strong corporate practice, allowing the team to accompany their clients on tax-related matters as well as daily legal issues, transactional work and restructuring for French or foreign private clients, companies or investors.

Litigation achieve the firm’s offer and gives it a multidisciplinary capacity of action.

The founding partners have been joined in recent years by younger partners who convey a dynamic and entrepreneurial vision of the profession, while remaining deeply attached to the original values of the firm: excellence and quality in client relations.

Today, Degroux Brugère gathers eleven partners and some twenty associates and legal professionals.

Tax: The team offers high-end counselling, based on a specific knowledge of the needs of private clients, firms and groups issues, a crosscutting culture enabling the integration of complex legal and tax implications, and a network of partners in France and abroad, in order to implement recommended solutions in the most efficient way.

Corporate and transactional (M&A/private equity): Degroux Brugère supports companies, their managers and/or shareholders, as well as investment funds, in all their operations of transfer or acquisition of assets and participations, investments, LBOs as well as profit-sharing plans.

The firm provides legal assistance to listed and non-listed companies on corporate law matters, governance issues, shareholders relations and directors’ liability.

Restructuration: Both in prevention (conciliation, ad hoc mandate) and insolvency proceedings, our restructuring team has an in-depth knowledge of financing mechanisms of companies, as well as corporate and tax issues which companies have to face. Furthermore, the team has a strong judicial experience of insolvency proceedings that facilitates the definition of the strategy as well the control over the court schedule.

Our firm implemented a multidisciplinary and responsive team to advise our clients (debtors, shareholders, directors, receivers, as well as creditors and potential buyers) at various stages(ad hoc mandate, conciliation, safeguarding proceedings, receivership and liquidation, liability cases against legal or de facto managers.

Litigation: The litigation team is both specialised in the operation of jurisdictional procedures, legal risk evaluation in M&A operations and the implementation of commercial contracts but also in handling disputes and negotiations within a conflicting context.

Lawyer Profiles

Photo	Name	Position	Profile
	Nicolas Ballet	Nicolas Ballet has been a partner since 2012. He joined Degroux Brugère…	View Profile
	Denis Brugère	Denis Brugère joined the Firm in 1983.	View Profile
	Philippe Delattre	Philippe Delattre has been a partner of the firm since 1979.	View Profile
	Valery Diaz	After having worked for 8 years in international and prestigious firms, Valery…	View Profile
	Dominique Dumas	Dominique’s practice covers mergers and acquisitions, private equity and commercial law for…	View Profile
	Augustin Fleytoux	Augustin Fleytoux has been a partner in the firm since 2015.	View Profile
	Frédéric Hennes	Frédéric Hennes is a partner of the firm since 2011.	View Profile
	Jean Melcion	Jean Melcion joined Degroux Brugère in November 2018 as a partner. He…	View Profile
	Sybille Plantin	Sybille Plantin, partner, has been with the firm since 1992. As a…	View Profile
	Jérémie Swiecznik	Jérémie Swiecznik has been a partner in the firm since 2019. He…	View Profile
	Marie-Pierre Weiss	Associée depuis janvier 2023, Marie-Pierre a rejoint le Cabinet en 2012 en…	View Profile