Our aim is to be a partner in your growth and your teams, putting our expertise, experience and energy at the service of your vision.
We assist you in your exceptional and strategic transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, build-ups, carve-outs, joint ventures and restructurings, as well as in managing and resolving your daily issues: issuing simple or complex securities, setting up capital incentive schemes, managing groups of companies, settling disputes between shareholders/managers, etc.
Our approach is to provide you with a strategic, innovative, pragmatic and, more importantly, customised advice to meet your needs and achieve your objectives: defining the characteristics and scope of the planned transaction, defining the best strategy, identifying and securing the measures to be taken to ensure that the transaction is completed on time, negotiating the relevant documentation, representing and constantly defending your interests.
Your asset lies in our perfect understanding of the implications involved in this type of transaction (innovation, the opening of new markets, strategic partnerships, competitiveness, synergies, diversification, etc.), the issues that may arise from their completion, whether legal (merger control, informing works councils, etc.), practical (structuring of a balanced and sufficiently agile governance to carry out structured projects in the long run, pooling of the necessary means and resources, sharing of responsibilities, non-competition, etc.) or technical (data protection, negotiating TSA, etc.), our network of experts, whether in France and abroad, as well as the opportunity for you of relying, at any time, on the support of the firm’s other experts.
Negotiating offer letters, confidentiality and exclusivity agreements, setting up and operating data rooms, auditing assessed risks and identifying pre- and post-closing remedial actions, reviewing social impacts, conducting works council information procedures, etc.
Identifying the means (sale of shares, carve-out, etc.) and actions required to complete the proposed transaction, strategic advice, negotiating the contractual documentation required to complete it: share purchase agreement, business purchase agreement, merger treaty, split or partial contribution of assets agreement, asset and liability warranties, shareholders’ agreement, etc.
Negotiating financing (senior, subordinated, mezzanine, bank debt, etc.) and the security to be provided (pledge, guarantee, Dailly, porte-fort, etc.).
Legal structuring, issuing simple or complex securities, setting up capital incentive schemes (free share or stock option plans, founders’ share warrants (Bspce), etc.), organising governance (corporate mandates, remuneration of managers, powers, etc.), settling disputes between shareholders/managers, etc.
Organizing and holding meetings of your governance bodies (board of directors, general meeting, ad-hoc committee, etc.), corporate mandate agreements, delegation of powers and authority, setting up group management tools (cash pooling agreements, group management agreements, etc.), drafting charter/rules of procedure, etc.
« They provide a highly responsive partner level service. They are very commercially minded and proportionate in their approach to the issues that are important to clients. Very friendly and efficient. International work is clearly important to the firm and is delivered across jurisdictions with a high level of teamwork with other legal advisers.” – Legal 500
The Leagal 500
Leaders League
Le Point
Oyat has been ranked in the « Palmarès des meilleurs cabinets d’avocats en France 2024 », published by Le Point magazine:
