Corporate law

The corporate law team supports companies during the key stages of their development: creation, daily legal monitoring and exceptional operations, changes in governance and management bodies, restructuring and transfers.

GÉRY DEMARD LIN & PARTNERS assists its clients in all areas of corporate law, in the context of managing the interests of both family (civil companies) and operational, industrial (commercial companies) clients.

Corporate

  • Choice of corporate form
  • Capital transactions (increase, reduction, free allocation, issue of classes of securities)
  • Governance
  • Winding up
  • Legal follow-up

Mergers – Acquisitions

  • Negotiations (letter of intent, confidential agreement, protocol)
  • Contractual rules (bylaws, shareholders agreements, promises)
  • Restructuring of groups (mergers, spin-offs, contributions, universal transfer of assets, transformations)

Contract documentation

  • Sales of securities
  • Goodwill and commercial leases
  • Services agreement
  • Settlement agreement

Example of cases handled

Advising on the organic and external growth of a leading industrial group in the Hauts de France area

Sale of a branch of activity (trading of construction materials) of a large industrial group

Advising an industrial group in connection with the acquisition of a competitor with a view to a leading position in the luxury industry

Advising on the refinancing of a French group specializing in events, established in Western Europe, by way of capital increase in cash, a bond loan and bank financing lines

Advising on the recapitalization of a company serving the deployment and safeguarding of French technological innovations

Advising on the transmission of an industrial family group through transfers, contributions and donations

Our team Corporate law

Aniska KHEBOUR-PERRIN

Aniska KHEBOUR-PERRIN

Benoît WILLAY

Benoît WILLAY

Our other areas of expertise

Commercial litigation – Contracts

Commercial litigation – Contracts

Criminal law of business affairs

Criminal law of business affairs

Family and Assets management law 

Family and Assets management law 

Foreign investments in France and abroad

Foreign investments in France and abroad

Tax law

Tax law

Inheritance law

Inheritance law

Insolvency law – Restructuring

Insolvency law – Restructuring

Real Estate and Construction law

Real Estate and Construction law

Foreigners’ law

Foreigners’ law

Labour law

Labour law

Intellectual property

Intellectual property

Corporate law

Corporate law