Arst Avocats advises its clients in the following matters related to business law:

• Advice on the regulations applicable to the client. Dealing with a wide range of issues relating to Contract Law (contract law or special contract law and contractual or tortious liability) and intervenes at the various stages (negotiation, conclusion, execution and termination) of the contractual relationship between the company and its partners or clients;
• Intervention at all stages of disputes with which the company is confronted within the framework of its activity and represents it, if necessary, before the competent courts or within the framework of alternative dispute resolution procedures (mediation, arbitration, et seq.).

Example of recent activity:

• Creation of a national network of fast food franchises.

Arst Avocats advises its clients in the following matters:

• in the creation of companies;
• at all stages of a company’s life, from its incorporation to its dissolution, for the realization of the simplest to the most complex operations (split, merger, listing on a stock market, et seq.);
• in the context of the acquisition or disposal of a company, whatever its form (transfer of business or corporate rights assignment) as well as operations that precede or follow it;
• in the implementation of agreements organizing relations between the company’s shareholders (shareholders’ agreement, employee shareholding schemes).

Example of recent activity:

• Assistance in the context of a stock listing company on the Paris Alternext market.

Arst Avocats advises its clients in the following matters:

• detection and prevention of the risks of disciplinary proceedings or of the criminal liability of the company and its managers;
• within the framework of the prosecution and reparation of harmful consequences related to the commission of offences or disciplinary breaches;
• in the context of proceedings before criminal courts or disciplinary bodies, at all stages of such proceedings (investigation, trial).

Arst Avocats assists companies and advises them on the social regulations applicable to their sector of activity.

It contributes to the implementation of mandatory or optional systems organizing relations between the employer and its employees (contractual documentation, employee representative institutions, internal regulations, profit-sharing or incentive schemes, etc.).

It assists and represents its clients, whether employers or employees, by intervening in both advisory and litigation matters before the employment courts (Tribunal judiciaire employment division).

Example of a recent activities:

• Assistance with a change in the applicable collective agreement
• Assistance in the implementation of a profit-sharing, benefits and employee savings plan agreement

Arst Avocats advises its clients in the following matters:

• procedures for preventing restructuring business operations (ad hoc mandate procedures, conciliation or safeguard procedures);
• within the framework of receivership and judicial liquidation procedures, whether the debtor or its creditors;
• in the context of the takeover of assets dependent on a company in restructuring proceedings (search for assets, drafting of a takeover offer, drafting of the deeds of assignment and completion of the subsequent formalities, etc.).

Example of recent activity:

• Advice and assistance in the context of a receivership procedure which led to the adoption of a continuation plan providing for the entry of a new investor

• in the application of the banking and financial regulations applicable to the company’s field of activity;
• in the context of a wide range of relationships that may exist between a credit institution or investment service provider and its clients (establishment or revision of contractual documentation);
• in the context of disputes relating to banking and financial matters (debt collection or liability disputes).