We build a dedicated, multi-disciplinary team around you to provide you with a strategic advice and meet your challenges.
Whether you are a chairman (Président), a managing director (Directeur Général), a CFO, a CEO, a CTO, a chief legal officer, a member of the Executive Committee (Comex), … within multinationals, groups of companies or SMEs, we assist you in defining your responsibilities, negotiating the terms of your corporate mandate and/or your employment contract (corporate mandate agreement, unemployment ruling (rescrit), private unemployment insurance such as the social guarantee for company managers and executives (GSC)) and, more generally, defending your interests as you take up, renew or terminate your duties (resignation, dismissal, termination of employment contract, etc.).
As we advise many investment funds and groups of companies when setting up capital incentive schemes, we also have first-class expertise in negotiating and unwinding management packages (free shares, preferred shares, stock options, founders’ share warrants (Bspce), etc.).
As the key partner of family groups and many business founders, and assisted by our partners (investment bankers, valuation experts, etc.), we can also assist you in the transfer of your business by identifying the best strategy based on your needs, the steps required to complete the transfer and how to secure them (negotiating confidentiality and exclusivity agreements, offer letters, consulting works councils, fulfilment or waiver of conditions precedent, etc.). We can also assist you in negotiating and drafting the necessary legal documentation.
Whatever your needs are, we will build around you a dedicated team of lawyers experienced in business, labour and tax law, who are able to provide you with a customised, strategic, unbiased and dedicated support to defend your interests.
Negotiating the terms of your corporate mandate or your employment contract, analysing responsibilities, drafting and reviewing the corporate mandate agreement, file a request for a ruling (rescrit) from France Travail, subscribing private unemployment insurance if necessary, reviewing social and tax implications, etc.
Negotiating offer letters, confidentiality and exclusivity agreements, setting up and operating data rooms, VDD, reviewing social and tax impacts, conducting works council information procedures, etc.
Legal and tax structuring, especially in the case of reinvestment, structure memorandum and, more generally, negotiating the documentation to be concluded in connection with the transfer of your business: SPA, asset and liability warranties, etc.
Unwinding, setting up and renegotiating management packages: issuing preferred shares, setting up free share or stock option plans, issuing founders’ share warrants (Bspce), negotiating the terms and conditions of your investment/reinvestment, etc.
Defending your interests when terminating your duties: negotiating an exit package, analysing social and tax aspects of the exit package, assisting and representing you in court if necessary, etc.
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Oyat has been ranked in the « Palmarès des meilleurs cabinets d’avocats en France 2024 », published by Le Point magazine:
