Litigation & Business Criminal law

Our dedicated business litigation team represents French and international groups, investment funds, and investors before all civil, commercial, and criminal courts, as well as arbitral tribunals.

The team has also developed expertise in alternative dispute resolution methods, particularly in mediation.

Thanks to our international HLB network, our team can efficiently handle cross-border disputes.

Commercial Litigation

Our team assists clients in seeking amicable solutions and managing pre-litigation and litigation disputes related to:

• Negotiation, execution, and termination of contracts
• Unfair practices (unfair competition, defamation, parasitism)
• Sudden termination of established commercial relationships
• Top executives’ liability
• Significant imbalance in contractual rights and obligations

Major Transaction Litigation

Our team advocates for our clients’ interests in major transaction and strategic business litigation, including shareholder disputes, post-acquisition disputes, and governance-related conflicts.

Our areas of expertise include:

• Acquisition Litigation (complex control and share acquisition, implementation of asset and liability guarantees, price adjustments and complements, forced execution)
• Shareholder Litigation (conflicts among shareholders, implementation of shareholder agreements, minority parasitism, majority defense, management of contentious general meetings)
• Governance Litigation (responsibility and dismissal of corporate officers, management of contentious board meetings, strategic committee, or supervisory board)

Business Criminal Law

Our team provides assistance in preventive aspects (risk audits, training) and represents clients in disputes before French criminal courts.

Our areas of expertise include:

• Offenses related to corporate law, such as misappropriation of corporate assets, abuse of power or votes, breach of trust, fraud, bankruptcy, money laundering
• Offenses related to tax criminal law – Financial offenses, such as corruption, influence peddling, illegal taking of interests
• In connection with the press law department, offenses against reputation/e-reputation (defamation, insults, denigration, violations of the presumption of innocence)

Commercial Leases

Our team handles pre-litigation matters and represents clients before courts to resolve disputes arising from the execution, renewal, or termination of commercial leases (notice, renewal, rent amount, eviction compensation, subletting, assignment of lease, resolutive clause, eviction).