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Franklin’s Restructuring team has assembled its latest sector-by-sector list of distressed acquisition opportunities. The targets are companies (...)

Prevention ever more central in addressing businesses in financial hardship Preventative measures: what are they? How do (...)

On February 27, 2020, the Lise Charmel group sought court protection from its creditors by filing for (...)

Over a hundred European and Canadian shareholders expected the Paris Commercial Court to order Vivendi to pay (...)

Altice France has announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement for the acquisition of Coriolis Telecom*, (...)

Franklin in collaboration with the law firm Primerio offers you an update on risk management and investment (...)

The Republic of the Congo has created a Ministry for the Promotion of Public-Private Partnerships. The move (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring team has assembled its latest sector-by-sector list of distressed acquisition opportunities. The targets are companies (...)

Column by our Restructuring partners Numa Rengot and Arnaud Pédron, published in Caractère magazine in September 2021 (...)

The role and involvement of bank supervisors are drawing particularly close scrutiny from the French Prudential Supervision (...)

Column by our Restructuring partner Numa Rengot, co-authored by Marouan Fawzi, published in Caractère magazine in May (...)

A global health crisis, abrupt business shutdowns, cash flow and supply chain disruptions… The unmitigated chaos of (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring team has assembled its latest sector-by-sector list of distressed acquisition opportunities. The targets are companies (...)

A few weeks after the French government announced its pandemic recovery plan, the Amended Finance Act for (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring team has assembled its latest sector-by-sector list of distressed acquisition opportunities. The targets are companies (...)

Magellim, the group resulting from the combination of asset management firm Foncière Magellan and real estate developer (...)

Lionel Lesur, head of our Competition practice, discussed with France Culture’s Chloë Cambreling the various questions raised (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring team has assembled its latest sector-by-sector list of distressed acquisition opportunities. The targets are companies (...)

Worn out by constant leadership changes, French sporting goods retailer Go Sport is in a bad way. (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring team has assembled its latest sector-by-sector list of distressed acquisition opportunities. The targets are companies (...)

Myriam de Gaudusson, a partner in our Labor & Employment practice, discusses taking paid leave in 2021. (...)

Mayday magazine has met turnaround professionals for you. Founded a year ago and led by Numa Rengot, (...)

After an asset disposal plan falls through, does the new owner of a distressed company have to (...)

Eurazeo’s Small-Mid Buyout team, led by Pierre Meignen, Alexis Bisson and Margaux Bodin, has signed an exclusivity (...)

Franklin law firm assisted the purchaser of the activities of the French companies Mulann Industries and Mulann (...)

France’s Health Crisis Recovery Act has introduced a new hybrid, simplified and temporary fast-track procedure for distressed (...)

Altice France has struck a deal to acquire the entire capital of MVNO Afone Participations, which co-owns (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring team has assembled its latest sector-by-sector list of distressed acquisition opportunities. The targets are companies (...)

Franklin continues to build out its service offering and reinforces its corporate practice with the addition of (...)

Our partner Lionel Lesur spoke alongside Sylvain Lambert, Annie Maudouit-Ridde, Jérôme Pottier and Nicolas von Bülow at (...)

Our labor & employment law partner Myriam de Gaudusson shares her insight into the four-day workweek: myth (...)

ACE Capital Partners, a Tikehau subsidiary, has embarked on exclusive negotiations with Eramet for the acquisition of (...)

Franklin has advised Sprint on the acquisition of the entire capital of Chabrillac from Inforsud, which is (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring team has assembled its latest sector-by-sector list of distressed acquisition opportunities. The targets are companies (...)

Since the 2008 crisis and as regulations have evolved, the oversight body within banks’ governance structure has (...)

Dealing with works council can be confusing for unprepared employers. Being aware of the rights of your (...)

Senegal’s new statutory framework for public-private partnerships should inspire Sub-Saharan African countries. The smoother mechanism, which permits (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring team has assembled its latest sector-by-sector list of distressed acquisition opportunities. The targets are companies (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring practice advised Domecco, a Batigroupe company, on continuing to roll out its growth strategy by (...)

Our partner Lionel Lesur will review the situation on the relevant aspects of competition law to be (...)

Our Labor and Employment partner Myriam de Gaudusson discusses management packages. Click HERE to watch her interview (...)

Franklin is happy and proud to be ranked once again in the Legal 500 EMEA 2021 directory. (...)

On March 9, 2021, France’s supreme administrative court (Conseil d’État) handed down a ruling upholding a labor-management (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring team has assembled its latest sector-by-sector list of distressed acquisition opportunities. The targets are companies (...)

AEW has acquired the “Nice Roguez” business park from Perial Développement, on behalf of the Ullis fund. (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring practice advised Domecco, a Batrigroupe company, on taking over Coldefy Formation and IPFAC – SE.MA.FOR, (...)

Although rare in France, hostile takeovers can pose a harrowing challenge for targets, as most recently exemplified (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring team has assembled its latest sector-by-sector list of distressed acquisition opportunities. The targets are companies (...)

Our Labor and Employment partner Myriam de Gaudusson discusses the employment status of Uber Drivers in light (...)

Our Partner Lionel Lesur granted an interview to Laurent Pompanon, from Laurence Simons Search, to discuss carrer (...)

Franklin is proud to have been honored in Chambers Global and Chambers Europe 2021 practice guides. Congratulations (...)

The point is to arrange a sale that will later be carried out under bankruptcy protection. Since (...)

Franklin’s Senior Advisor Michel Sapin shares his insight into corruption, compliance and CSR in an interview conducted (...)

Leading Paris-based independent law firm Franklin has announced the addition of Senior Advisor Joël Rault to enhance (...)

Column by partner Lionel Lesur and associate Laura Isabelle Danet, from our Corporate-M&A department, published in Option (...)

Should you sell this struggling division now or after the crisis? Many business owners and their CFOs (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring team has assembled its latest sector-by-sector list of distressed acquisition opportunities. The targets are companies (...)

Our partners Numa Rengot, Arnaud Pédron, Myriam de Gaudusson and Patrick Thiébart and the Restructuring and Labor (...)

Any effective anti-corruption strategy relies on an operational and viable risk map. While each strategy should be (...)

2020 was marked by an unprecedented health crisis, which has had a devastating impact on the world’s (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring team has assembled its latest sector-by-sector list of distressed acquisition opportunities. The targets are companies (...)

Myriam de Gaudusson , a partner in our employment law practice, gives an overview of the “Sapin (...)

Going against investor protection imperatives, France’s highest court (Cour de cassation) came down with a harsh ruling (...)

A prominent political figure, Michel Sapin served in all left-leaning governments, from François Mitterrand’s second seven-year term (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring team has assembled its latest sector-by-sector list of distressed acquisition opportunities. The targets are companies (...)

France’s 2016 contract law reform has revamped the concept of lapse (caducité), in which lawyers are well-versed. (...)

When an employer may need to consider investigating an employee’s alleged misconduct, many questions arise and several (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring team has advised Sprint in connection with the court-supervised acquisition of Léonce Deprez, a printing (...)

Magellim, the group resulting from the combination of asset management firm Foncière Magellan and real estate developer (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring team has assembled its latest sector-by-sector list of distressed acquisition opportunities. The targets are companies (...)

Myriam de Gaudusson, a partner in Franklin’s Labor & Employment practice, explains the concept of “co-employment” and (...)

By emergency rulings dated October 26, 2020, Paris’ first-level Civil Court declined to compel two companies to (...)

Many French businesses are required to conduct “mandatory annual negotiations” on wages, working time, value-sharing programs, gender (...)

Michel Meyer and Robert Meilichzon join Franklin’s Real Estate department, as Senior Advisor and Senior Legal Advisor, (...)

Column by partner Lionel Lesur and associate Laura Isabelle Danet, from our Corporate-M&A department, published in Option (...)

The Islamic Republic of Mauritania has retained Franklin, in conjunction with financial consulting firm Finexem, to advise (...)

Myriam de Gaudusson, a partner in Franklin’s Labor & Employment practice, goes over the contents of the (...)

Our partners Stéphan Alamowitch and Jérôme Michel received the following rankings: Project finance: advising banks or sponsors: (...)

On November 4, 2020, the labor division of France’s highest court (Cour de cassation) ruled for the (...)

Cartel Regulation addresses the most important issues practitioners face to mitigate the fines imposed on clients under (...)

Our partners Lionel Lesur and Xavier Marchand received the following rankings: Regulatory law: Highly recommended Licensing contracts, (...)

The entire corporate recovery sector, from restructuring lawyers, to auditors and transition managers, are gearing up for (...)

On November 25, 2020, the criminal division of France’s highest court (Cour de cassation) ruled that following (...)

Column by partner Lionel Lesur and associate Laura Isabelle Danet, from our Corporate-M&A department, published in Option (...)

2020 will go down as a particularly dark year, marked by an unprecedented health crisis, swiftly followed (...)

The enforcement committee of the French stock market regulator AMF has fined BNP Paribas Securities Services €1 (...)

The law firm Franklin is strengthening its Restructuring, Corporate Recovery and Distressed M&A practice with the hire (...)

Class actions have had limited success since they were introduced into French law in 2016 – only (...)

In a world where employees regularly leave the ship to join competitors, protecting company’s assets is key. (...)

Our Partners Stéphan Alamowitch, Xavier Marchand and Jérôme Michel received the following rankings: Project finance: advising banks (...)

Employees who post information regarding their company on their “private” Facebook page may be terminated for willful (...)

Labor-management relations are often treated as an afterthought in M&A deals. And yet, over and above the (...)

Franklin assisted an intercommunal structure, Communauté de Communes des Villes Sœurs (CCVS), with the acquisition of MLB (...)

Our Partners Serge Durox, Myriam de Gaudusson, Michel Sapin and Patrick Thiébart received the following rankings: Data (...)

On October 21, 2020, the Commercial Court of Nantes ordered the sale of the Aries Alliance group, (...)

SCP Centre de Pathologie de Passy specializes in anatomic pathology and cytopathology. It is licensed to process (...)

Our Partners Yam Atallah, Lionel Lesur, Alexandre Marque, Numa Rengot and their team ranked among the leading (...)

Our partners Stéphan Alamowitch, Serge Durox, Myriam de Gaudusson, Jérôme Michel and Patrick Thiébart received the following (...)