Recommended for its strength in LBO restructurings,Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP‘s practice offers a wealth of experience across the full spectrum of restructuring and insolvency work, including distressed M&A and multijurisdictional proceedings, with the team’s stellar client roster encompasses debtors, creditors, investment funds and banks. Jean-Dominique Daudier De Cassini is well known for this track record in complex restructurings and co-heads the department alongside Céline Domenget-Morin, whose varied portfolio extends to advice on distressed LBO transactions, safeguard proceedings, and cross-border financial restructurings. César Puech Routier is a key contact for conciliation and judicial liquidation proceedings.
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- ‘Extensive experience, ability to propose solutions, personalised support.’
- ‘Jean-Dominique Daudier de Cassini remains indispensable.’
- ‘One of the best, if not the best, restructuring teams. Capable of handling both very large, large-cap companies with a very high level of technical expertise and with the support of Weil's various practices, as well as SMEs.’
- ‘Jean-Dominique Daudier de Cassini: the leading expert in restructuring, with the ability to move cases forward with a deft touch and the necessary finesse.'
- 'The best on the market.'
Key clients
- EPEI
- A pool of banks, including BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Natixis, HSBC, CIC, Crédit Agricole
- Eliott
- The founders of Ba&sh
- Glass Holding
- Générale pour l’Enfant
- Natixis and other lenders
- MegaRock Limited/Sandton/Verdoso
- Aqualung
- Iconix Brand Group
Work highlights
Advised EP Equity Investment, which teamed up with Attestor Limited to form a Consortium to submit a financial restructuring proposal to Atos, as part of a competitive process organised in the context of Atos’ conciliation proceedings.
Advised a pool of 19 banks on the second financial restructuring of GiFi, involving a complex combination of new money injection, debt to equity swap, transfer of the equity held by the banks in a fiducie (French trust), and ad hoc governance mechanisms.
Advised Elliott, one of the main creditors and a member of the AHG, alongside the London restructuring team, on the French aspects of the Altice matter, both during the LME process and at the implementation stage in the context of conciliation and accelerated safeguard proceedings.
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Céline Domenget-Morin
Practice head
Céline Domenget-Morin; Jean-Dominique Daudier de Cassini
Other key lawyers
César Puech Routier; Camille Bretagne