Expertise

Expertise

BMR Avocat advises companies, executives, shareholders and investors on structuring, governance, financing, investment, growth, reorganisation and transmission transactions. The firm takes a pragmatic and operational approach, ensuring that each legal solution fits the company’s economic and strategic rationale.

01

Corporate law & governance

  • Company formation and structuring
  • Governance and allocation of powers
  • Capital transactions and issues of securities
  • Company conversions and amendments to constitutional documents
  • Corporate bodies and exceptional transactions
  • Intra-group agreements: management fees, cash pooling, shareholder current account advances, etc.
02

Shareholding & shareholder relations

  • Shareholders’ agreements
  • Governance and allocation of powers
  • Majority and minority rights
  • Liquidity and exit mechanisms
  • Entry, exit and reorganisation of shareholdings
  • Support in situations of disagreement between shareholders
03

Mergers & acquisitions

  • Legal structuring of the transaction
  • Legal due diligence
  • Letters of intent and preliminary documentation
  • Acquisition and sale agreements
  • Warranties and indemnities and related security mechanisms
  • Signing and closing documentation
  • Acquisitions and disposals of companies, subsidiaries, shareholdings or assets
04

Private Equity, LBO / OBO & fundraising

  • Fundraising rounds
  • Minority or majority investments
  • LBOs, OBOs and other leveraged transactions
  • Reinvestments by founders and executives
  • Investment documentation and shareholders’ agreements
  • Management incentive plans
  • BSPCE, free shares, stock options and other equity incentive instruments
05

Financing & security interests

  • Bank financing
  • Acquisition financing and senior debt
  • Bond financing
  • Issues of bonds and other debt securities
  • Refinancings and debt restructurings
  • Shareholder current accounts and intra-group financing
  • Security interests and personal guarantees
  • Guarantees and financing documentation
06

Restructuring & corporate reorganisations

  • Mergers and similar transactions
  • Contributions and partial contributions of assets
  • Company conversions
  • Subsidiarisation
  • Intra-group reorganisations
  • Reorganisation of shareholdings
  • Simplification and evolution of holding structures
07

Commercial contracts & partnerships

  • Commercial contracts
  • Services and supply agreements
  • Distribution agreements and commercial arrangements
  • Partnerships and joint ventures
  • Strategic agreements
  • French and international contracts
  • Negotiation, renegotiation and development of contractual relationships
08

Structuring & wealth

  • Formation and organisation of holding companies and ownership structures
  • Structuring family or entrepreneurial groups
  • Organisation of the ownership of business assets
  • Transmission of businesses and shareholdings
  • Wealth and shareholding reorganisations
  • Contributions, gifts and transfers of shares in coordination with the client’s tax and wealth advisers
  • Structuring professional practice and holding companies for liberal professions
  • SEL, SPFPL and other professional practice or holding structures
  • Organisation of entry, exit or transmission between partners

When the requirements of a matter extend beyond the areas in which BMR Avocat advises directly, the firm relies on a network of partner lawyers with whom it has worked for many years.

These lawyers, recognised for their expertise in their respective fields, advise in particular on tax law, employment law, intellectual and industrial property, business litigation and insolvency proceedings. Where a transaction requires it, BMR Avocat can assemble a team tailored to the issues at stake, while coordinating the various advisers and ensuring the overall consistency of the advice provided to the client.

This organisation enables the firm to provide specialised, seamless and efficient support, without unnecessarily multiplying the number of contacts for the client.

Complementary expertise

Coordinated support beyond our core expertise

BMR Avocat regularly advises clients on transactions with an international dimension or involving companies, investors or business partners established abroad.

The firm has built a network of independent partner law firms and lawyers with whom it can work in a coordinated manner, notably in the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, Brazil, Chile, Israel and the United Arab Emirates, as well as in other jurisdictions depending on the needs of each transaction.

This organisation makes it possible to mobilise local counsel quickly, with in-depth knowledge of their legal and economic environment, while maintaining close coordination with BMR Avocat to ensure the smooth and efficient execution of cross-border transactions.

International

An international network of partners