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Galembert Avocats
76 avenue de Wagram
75017 Paris, France
France

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France > Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation Tier 3

Galembert Avocats has strong expertise representing private clients, CEOs, investors and family offices in shareholder, governance and corporate litigation, particularly in the private equity space. The firm regularly acts in senior management revocation disputes and also represents several companies in M&A disputes. Noémie de Galembert is highly regarded; she is supported by counsel Pierre-Alain Marquet.

Leading individuals: Corporate and commercial litigation

Noémie de Galembert –Galembert Avocats

Practice head(s):

Noémie de Galembert

Other key lawyers:

Pierre-Alain Marquet

Testimonials

‘Noémie de Galembert leads a homogeneous and very hard-working team. Good technical knowledge of the entire team and good in negotiations. ’

‘Noémie de Galembert is an expert in tough negotiations and has good technical knowledge of the private equity sector. Resistance and determination are her main qualities.’

‘Very dynamic, agile and very responsive team. Recommended in particular for the management of disputes involving shareholder managers given the excellent knowledge of the practices and players of the LBO market, whether in the context of an individual negotiation concerning a revocation, a dispute between shareholders or with a potential buyer. The team is innovative.’

‘Noémie de Galembert is remarkable; she carries out her activity in a committed manner for her clients.’

‘Fighting spirit and clarity.’

‘Personal approach, great sense of efficiency, sense of listening, great pragmatism, availability.’

‘Noémie de Galembert provides fantastic advice, knows how to listen and how to bring clients to a necessary compromise. Great availability, a lot of patience, she knows how to both defend your interests and get you to consider the necessary concessions with a view to a good agreement.’

Key clients

Primonial Group

Geopost

Armen

Zodiac

Eurazeo top executives

Founding shareholder and CEO of Greenflex

Palais des Thés

Azimut’s founders and minority shareholders

Siaci

Wansquare

Eurogroup

Work highlights

Advised three Eurazeo executive board members against the management take-over of the Decaux Family.
Successfully advised the ex-CEO of Greenflex in a discovery-like procedure as part of a dispute with Groupe Total regarding his management package.
Advised managers and shareholders of Primonial Group in their dispute against Altarea following a major SPA breach.

The firm: Our firm is dedicated to corporate litigation while being attached to solve as soon as possible any situations of conflict. We assist our clients in their corporate governance issues, upstream or downstream of minority or majority changes of control, where their liability are at stake or their rights are being affected. Our firm is renowned for defining and leading to its completion a comprehensive judicial strategy before judicial jurisdiction and arbitration bodies, from taking of interim measures to the enforcement of decisions obtained.

Our clearly defined positioning is a guarantee of independence in sensitive cases / conflicts of interest and ensures our freedom of action. Our deep-seated expertise of judicial proceedings allows us to provide our clients with an accurate analysis of the risks and a continued support until the end of the case, with determination and creativity. The risk management requires to know at any time how to solve conflicts. We know how to identify the balanced bases of a negotiation propose appropriate solutions.

Our expertise

- Disputes between shareholders: implementation of shareholders’ agreement, enforcement of put/call options, exclusion clause, abuse of majority/minority.
- Corporate litigation: post-acquisition litigations (earn-out, price adjustment, liability guarantee), wrongful termination of negotiations, transactions not completed between signing and closing.
- Executives: civil and criminal liability, negotiation of exit package.
- Contractual litigation: abrupt termination, enforcement actions, contractual liability.
- Unfair competition: parasitism, massive poaching, antitrust related litigation.

Department	Name	Email	Telephone
Litigation	Noémie de Galembert	ndegalembert@galembert-avocats.com	0140543120
Litigation	Florence Portal	fportal@galembert-avocats.com	0140543120
Litigation	Victoire Segard	vsegard@galembert-avocats.com	0140543120
Litigation	Pierre-Alain Marquet	pamarquet@galembert-avocats.com	0140543120

Name	Position	Profile
Pierre-Alain Marquet	Associate	View Profile
Florence Portal	Counsel	View Profile
Victoire Segard	Associate	View Profile
Noémie de Galembert	Partner	View Profile