Practices


VRIES AVOCATS offers his clients (companies, senior executives and investors) a range of skills which cover all the legal issues arising in the corporate and private equity transactions.

Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions

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VRIES AVOCATS advises companies, management teams and entrepreneurs in different areas of domestic and international transactions:

  • Acquisitions or disposals of companies and assets,
  • Auction sales,
  • Share capital issuances, mergers,
  • Group reorganisations,
  • Cross-border transactions,
  • Setting-up and liquidation.

Private Equity

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VRIES AVOCATS also advises private equity and venture capital investors as well as business angels in their financial transactions (such as early stage funding, LBO, secondary buyouts and pre listing capital for companies across sectors).

VRIES AVOCATS has developed an expertise in French venture debt, an innovative financing tool that is complimentary to venture capital equity investment.

The « Corporate Service »

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VRIES AVOCATS provides the « Corporate Service » for its clients covering the following legal services:

  • organisation of the corporate services for a company or a group of companies (preparation of general meetings for the approval of annual accounts, appointment of managers, …),
  • organisation of employment relations (preparation and running of meetings with work councils, drafting of employment contracts for new employees, modification of current employment contracts with regards
  • to salaries and non competition clauses) and the transfer of the Intellectual Property Rights,
  • drafting of business contracts (drafting of commercial contracts with customers and distributors …),
  • general advice to senior executives and shareholders on legal transactions.

Companies using from the « Corporate Service » have the possibility to outsource their legal work to the law firm. The annual fee is calculated according to the company’s needs and situation.

 

VRIES AVOCATS, when faced with specific legal issues such as trademark, competition, public law, works with specialised lawyers, thus remaining as the referring advisor.

As a result, the law firm offers its clients a global and unique offer of legal services which may include the fees of other professionals.