Corporate

The Corporate law team advises numerous French and international companies in a broad range of complex transactions, including deals which have a particular focus on technology and renewable energies, bringing together international experience and local knowledge.

The multi-disciplinary focus of Ichay & Mullenex Avocats allows the firm to interact with ease with business professionals such as bankers, accountants, and auditors, a necessary skill in today's competitive legal market.

Our broad client base includes companies that specialize in: telecommunications, media, technology, retail, energy and renewable energy, travel, advertising, IT services, and insurance.

Our fields of competence include:

Mergers and Acquisitions

  • Structuring M&A and reorganizations (tax, corporate and labour aspects, interacting with investment bankers),
  • Structuring leveraged transactions, LBOs,
  • Pre- and post-acquisition due diligence, including the coordination and preparation of due diligence reports with audit firms,
  • Negotiating and drafting pre-contractual and contractual documents (non disclosure agreements, letters of intent, bids, sale and purchase agreements, shareholder agreements, representations and warranties),
  • Closing process and follow-up,
  • Financing arrangements (facility agreements, security trust deeds, share charges, fixed and floating charges, accounts agreements, assignments of licence),
  • Guarantees (first demand bank guarantees, bank guarantees, depository, pledges),
  • Private equity.

Corporate and Business Law

  • Corporate structuring,
  • Company incorporation,
  • Drafting articles of association, shareholder agreements and ongoing corporate documentation,
  • Stock option plans and free shares plans,
  • Capital increases and decreases, issuance of securities,
  • Advice to managers (corporate and tax aspects),
  • Organization of distribution networks.
  • Public-Private Partnership. Our firm advises regularly, in collaboration with Azan Law Firm (specialised in Public Law) on Public private Partnership.
  • Advising on contractual structuring
  • Contractual due diligence
  • Advising on tender documents
  • Advising on tax documentation
  • Transfer of contracts and receivables
  • Advising on financial planning of the prospects
  • Advising on drafting of technical specifications

Highlights from our track record include:

(Our professional ethics rules forbid us to disclose our clients' names. However, references may be obtained upon request).

  1. Advised a telecom company in its acquisition of an African telecom company that operated in six countries in Africa,
  2. Advised the French subsidiaries of a leading multinational e-commerce group, specializing in the travel and leisure market, in various corporate matters, including the sale of one of the subsidiaries,
  3. Advised a French company in its acquisition of private clinics and specialized medical centres,
  4. Advised a group of international investors in its acquisition of a French national daily newspaper,
  5. Advised a telecom company in the sale of its subsidiaries in France and in Europe,
  6. Advised a French industrial group in its acquisition of a group of energy companies specializing in the biomass waste sector,
  7. Advised an international chemical company in its acquisition of two chemical plants in France,
  8. Advised a seller in its sale of a French specialized on line magazine publisher,
  9. Advised a major European travel agency group in various acquisitions in France,
  10. Advised a major British electronics retailer in its investments in French on- and offline electronic retailers,
  11. Advised a major Korean electronics producer and retailer, specializing in the cell phone sector, in its investments in the French market,
  12. Advised a French casinos group in its pre-sale restructuring mergers,
  13. Advised a French paramedical products wholesaler in internal restructuring and in an employees incentive policy through the implementation of a free shares plan,
  14. Advised a sovereign-wealth fund for the privatization of a telecom incumbent in Africa (in partnership with the TMT Department).
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