COMPANY LAW AND SECURITIES LAW

In the area of company and securities law, FLV & Associés advises and represents international groups, public and private French companies, as well as individual shareholders whether representing a majority or minority stake.

FLV & Associés assists clients in a very broad range of fields :

Mergers and Acquisitions

• legal due diligence ;
• negotiation and drawing up of documents (letters of intent; sale and purchase agreements for shares, assets or ownership interests; seller’s representations and warranties; deferred consideration or earn-out arrangements; follow-through and enforcement of representation and warranties, shareholder agreements, etc.
• design of incentive systems for officers and employees (share warrants, special share warrants for new companies, share options, etc.);
• negotiations prior to litigation , enforcement of guarantees.

Financing transactions

• issues of shares for cash or contributions in kind, transfers of shares
• capital investment operations and equity funding transactions on behalf of management, majority shareholders or investors; leveraged buyouts and related shareholder agreements
• partial transfers of assets, acquisitions and spin-offs of divisions
• issue of transferable securities (convertible bonds, bonds redeemable in shares, bonds with warrants , etc.)
• share option schemes
• share award schemes.

Initial public offerings and equity issues

• pre-IPO restructurings
• drafting of offering prospectuses
• legal due diligence
• legal documents, shareholder agreements
• relations with market authorities
• share issues.

Other deals involving company law

• joint ventures, temporary business alliances
• restructurings (transformations, mergers, demergers, capital contributions in kind, partial transfers of assets, transfers of all assets and liabilities, etc.)
• management fees and remuneration of officers and directors
• setting up French branches or subsidiaries of foreign companies
• legal assistance to companies (incorporation, transformation, modifications, liquidation, etc.).

Insolvency proceedings

• legal assistance in the field of the law pertaining to ailing companies (bankruptcy prevention, administration, liquidation, buy-out schemes, advice during insolvency proceedings, recovery proceedings against directors or extension of insolvency proceedings to company officers, etc.).