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RESTRUCTURATION

The restructuration practice group counts 4 partners and 12 associates, and is lead by our managing partner Bruno Courtine.

Our restructuring practice group activities (including due diligence, contracts… to litigations)
is at the heart of VAUGHAN AVOCATS’ activities embracing:

Social restructuring

  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Restructuring, plans and collective redundancy
  • International transfers
  • Audits (Acquisitions, compliance, strategy)
  • Previsional management of employment and careers (GPEC)
  • Compensations and benefits
  • Social protection
  • Industrial relations with unions
  • Works councils and employee representative bodies
  • Disclosure obligations
  • Organisation and management of work week
  • Individual employment relations Industrial
  • Mobility
  • Social consequences of mergers & acquisitions

With Bruno Courtine, the practice provides a comprehensive service to clients both in France and internationally on all aspects of employment issues and industrial relations.

Protection of intangible assets of companies

  • Outsourcing operations (contractual aspects, risk analysis, reversibility)
  • Organisation of the technico-legal protection of intangible assets,
  • IT safety and data protection: legal framework and new rules of compliance, methods and procedures for the drafting of prevention policies against the capture and transfer of proprietary information, risk assessment for companies, executives and employees
  • Dematerialisation of exchanges and digital filing; technico-legal analysis of  structures put into place for dematerialised operations – electronic safe, archive of on-line sales, electronic invoicing, associated contracts and their evidential value, Privacy policies regarding employees and customers – analysis of personal data processing and enforcement of legal obligations, Internet and new media issues, management
  • Protection and defence of patents. Isabelle Renard leads the VAUGHAN Avocats IP/IT practice group which covers an area that is at the crossroads of law and technology.

Corporate matters

  • Bankruptcy,
  • Chapter 11 matters in France “procedures collectives”,
  • Mergers, corporate finance, with Antoine Denis-Bertin former member of the legal department at Credit du Nord, and of Corporate group of Dubarry Le Douarin Veil (now Field Fisher Waterhouse Paris) and Partner founder of Rossini.

Real estate

  • Lease audits
  • Managing pre-litigation and compensation of immobilisation
  • Forced sales, sales on auction
  • Judiciary mortgage
  • Expropriation
  • Commercial lease litigation (court fixation of rent, eviction and compensation)
  • Housing and professional leases
  • Termination and eviction litigation
  • Court fixation of rent The real estate practice is headed by Nicolas Cohen-Steiner, who holds a Certificate of Specialisation in real estate law.

PARTNERS:

Bruno Courtine
Isabelle Renard
Antoine Denis-Bertin
Nicolas Cohen-Steiner

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