Didier Bruere-Dawson Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyer of the Year France
About Didier Bruere-Dawson
Didier Bruère-Dawson represents various groups and French and foreign investors as part of their investment, divestments and real estate projects in France and abroad by managing the risks
and issues linked to insolvency proceeds.
His transactional and litigation expertise in M&A and financing projects, as well as in the acquisition of ailing businesses,
is well
recognized. He is at the forefront of all matters concerning the structure and organization of these operations.
He has represented several investment funds and investors in conciliation procedures, ad hoc mandates and recovery takeovers, but also as part of their defense, during insolvency proceedings or not, in a national or international environment. He is especially involved in
The Firm
De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés is an integrated full service independent law firm. With more than 100 lawyers and paralegals, including 29 partners, the firm relies on a project management method of working in order to meet the essential needs of economic players in a cross practice and integrated manner: their corporate organization and their operational activities.
The firm is organized around two main divisions:
• The activities of the Corporate Structure Division respond to economic actors’ needs in relation to their capital and human resources, and governance.
• The activities of the Corporate Operation Division respond to businesses and public entities’ needs in relation to their operational activities.
international operations and legal disputes both in Europe and in the United States, but also in transnational litigation as the principal advisor or not, depending on the interests of the client.
In addition, Didier Bruère-Dawson intervenes in shareholders disputes and the implementation of security agreements (in an international environment or not).
He also manages transnational litigation to recover assets and distribution of wealth and/or organization of insolvency.
Didier Bruère-Dawson holds a post graduate degree (DEA) in Business and Economic Law (Paris-II University, 1988), a master’s degree in Management (Paris-I University, 1986) and he is a graduate from the Institute of Higher International Studies (IHEI - Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales Paris-II University).
Areas of Expertise
Prevention of difficulties • Liabilities restructuring transactions • Credit mediation • Administrator and conciliation
Management of difficulties
• Assistance to companies in the context of safeguard, insolvency or liquidation proceedings
• Assistance to creditors: statement of claim, appointment of auditors, performance of securities, assistance during proceedings, restructuring of loan agreements
• Directors’ liability
Purchase of distressed companies • Drafting of takeover offers
• Negotiation and assistance before insolvency courts
Contact
France 9 rue Boissy d’Anglas, 75008 Paris, France Tel: +33 (0)1 56 64 00 00 Fax: +33 (0)1 56 64 00 01
Belgium 222 Avenue Louise, 1050 Brussels, Belgium Tel: +32 (0)2 644 01 64 Fax: +32 (0)2 644 31 16
Email:
contact@dgfla.com Website:
www.degaullefleurance.com
Notable Legal Work in Insolvency & Restructuring
• We assisted a French group in negotiating a settlement agreement, approved by the Commercial Court, and conducted under the auspices of the Interministerial Committee for Industrial Restructuring (CIRI) and of a conciliator. The execution of that agreement allowed the launch of vital restructuring for this group of more than 3,000 employees.
• Disputes between partners are often behind corporate difficulties.
For
example, this year, we handled a case in which the partners’ disagreement led to some of them leaving the company to start directly competing structures, which in turn led a thriving business to the brink of insolvency.
Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2013
• In other cases, the difficulties stemming from the weight of “3rd”and “4th” LBO debts, while company performance can no longer meet the ratios in the bank documentation, led to conflicts between financial partners and historical shareholders or
industrial players
attempting to renegotiate the agreements.
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