When it comes to building a company's legal structure, changing it, or expanding it, business law and labor law cannot be treated separately.
Our attorneys operate not only in advisory capacities but also in litigation, covering the full range of labor and business law.

Supporting operators in all fields

Our law office works side-by-side with its clients, wherever they are and whatever their occupations may be. The sharp focus of our approach is based on our experience with operators in a wide variety of activities.
Our firm is also an authorized training agency and we recently incorporated a scientific advisory board.

We stand by your company every step of the way

At the key moments in the life of your company we are there as experts, but also as facilitators, helping all the stakeholders towards concrete, legally viable solutions.

Company formation

Preliminary discussions and design of a structure

1. Business plan and economic model
2. Selection of a corporate form
3. Governance
4. Shareholders' agreement
5. Status and senior-management compensation; delegation of authority
6. Trade name

Recruitment

1. Work contract
2. Collective agreement
3. Special statutes
4. Combining management and line functions

Internal operations

Renewing senior-management contracts

Annual commitments :

1. NAO (Mandatory annual negotiation on salary and working conditions)

Work contract :

1. Contract amendments
2. Discipline
3. Mobility
4. Management of suspension periods

Personnel representatives :

1. Elections and nominations
2. Economic and Social Unit (UES)
3. Operation and duties

Professional activities

Contracts: drafting and negotiation :

1. Subcontracting (use of illegal labor, subcontracting offenses)
2. Distribution
3. Provision of services

Computer and new-technologies law – E-freedom and privacy :

1. Representation at the CNIL (French Data Protection Authority)
2. Computer security and usage
3. Code of Ethics and the Sarbanes-Oxley law

Trade rules and regulations and consumer rights

Intellectual property / Literary and artistic property

Events

Capital transactions :

1. Increases in capital
2. Mergers and Acquisitions
3. Formation of subsidiaries
4. Social consequences

Civil and criminal liability of executives

Collective bargaining :

1. Labor disputes and GPEC (Enterprise manpower & skills planning)

Sectoral and collective agreements :

1. Planning for negotiations and wording of draft agreements
2. Support during negotiations
3. Procedures for amending agreements

Organizational change :

1. Contract termination: dismissal, PSE (plan to minimize and support a collective redundancy program), settlements
2. Management of working hours
3. Reorganization
4. Audit

Dismantling the structure

Assignment and transfer

Failing companies :

1. Collective procedures: declaration of suspension of payments, protection, receivership, and liquidation
2. Declaration of debts
3. Third-party claims against executives

Winding up and liquidation