Foreign direct investment & cross-border business and disputes
McGREEVY Avocats has considerable experience of successfully advising foreign businesses in connection with their ventures in France or with French partners. Areas of expertise include:
- Acquisition of French corporations and businesses;
- Sale and purchase of French business assets;
- Identification and creation of optimum business structures, including corporations, partnerships, branches etc.;
- Creation of cross-border contractual and corporate joint-ventures;
- Shareholders Agreements;
- Shareholders Disputes
- Licensing of intellectual property;
- French law of Agency, distribution and direct sales channels;
- Businesses in financial difficulty, French equivalent measures to Chapter 11, Administration and Pre-Pack restructuring, liquidations;
- Employment of French staff and managers;
- French members of US and UK LLPs;
- Commercial, business and employment disputes before competent French courts or ADR forum;
- Commercial real estate.
McGREEVY Avocats has recently :
- Represented a French software company in a technology license dispute with a household name US telecoms supplier
- Advised an Irish engineering business in connection with a with a French based rail organisation for critical maintenance services on one of Europe’s key infrastructure links
- Represented the UK shareholders in a joint venture project in the leisure sector in connection with a dispute with local partners
- Advised a market leading US Fintech company on a series of transactions with major French banks
- Acted as externalised EMEA “general counsel” to a US technology multinational during replacement of previous in-house incumbent
- Represented major UK manufacture in dispute with French agent in proceedings before the Paris Court of Appeal and Cour de Cassation