RESTRUCTURING AND BANKRUPTCY

RESTRUCTURING AND BANKRUPTCY

Drawing on its M&A, Litigation and Financing practices, Bredin Prat has a strong restructuring and bankruptcy practice with extensive experience in managing both domestic and cross-border high profile financial restructurings and bankruptcy situations. This ability to draw on such depth of expertise is why both long-standing corporate clients and new clients choose the firm when they face bankruptcy/restructuring issues.

Bredin Prat's expertise in this area originated in its litigation practice, one of its core historical activities. The firm's most experienced lawyers have been involved in numerous bankruptcy litigations, providing them with highly refined knowledge of the risks incurred by managers, board members and shareholders in the context of bankruptcies and situations of financial difficulty.

 

Bredin Prat has acted as counsel (for debtors, creditors or parent companies) on a number of the largest restructurings in the French market, including those involving Crédit Lyonnais, Vivendi, Eurotunnel, Infogrames and Dollfus Mieg, & Cie S.A. (DMC). Its renowned finance practice and its long-standing relationship with British firm Slaughter and May have allowed Bredin Prat to tackle major financial restructuring issues involving the French and Anglo-Saxon debt markets.

Bredin Prat has also acted as counsel (for debtors, parent companies or potential acquirers) in connection with the bankruptcy proceedings of major French public and private companies, such as AOM-Air Liberté, Metaleurop, DMC, Unichips (Flodor), LG Philips Displays and Cadence (ex-Peguform). The firm has extensive experience in defending creditors and shareholders of bankrupt companies, as well as in representing potential purchasers in the context of bankruptcy or pre-bankruptcy procedures.

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