The firm is regularly consulted in relation to pre-litigation and contractual litigation matters, often involving technical and complex cases across a range of sectors, including finance, aeronautics, film, the automotive industry and construction.
Examples:
- Advising a major French film production company on various contractual disputes and pre-litigation matters, involving multiple areas of law including civil law, contractual liability, film law and the law relating to companies in financial difficulties, amongst others.
- Advising a foreign company in civil litigation relating to a defect in aeronautical equipment.
- Advising a company and its director in pre-litigation proceedings following allegations of breach of contract and defects affecting a structure subject to specific technical constraints.
- Advised a foreign investment fund in connection with pre-litigation proceedings relating to a contract, focusing in particular on the interpretation and scope of a financial commitment clause contained in a mezzanine bond subscription agreement.
- Advising a major French insurance company in connection with a contractual pre-litigation matter relating, in particular, to non-competition obligations following the sale of a subsidiary.
- Advising a major French company in the automotive sector in a pre-litigation context, focusing in particular on the impact of one shareholder’s increased stake on the balance of complex contractual partnership agreements with a foreign group.
- Advised a French company in negotiations regarding the renewal of equipment supply agreements, requiring a detailed understanding of the supplier’s contractual liability terms and the framework governing maintenance obligations in the aeronautics sector.
- Advised and assisted an investment fund management company in connection with a contractual dispute alleging fraud, relating in particular to the artificial overvaluation of assets following the acquisition of a business division of a French group.