The firm has developed specific expertise in managing shareholder relationships: disputes arising from the performance of shareholders’ agreements, enforcement of liquidity clauses (put and call options, exclusion clauses, drag-along provisions, etc.), majority or minority abuse, and more.
- Advising a family office, majority shareholder of an industrial group, in connection with an action for annulment brought by a minority shareholder following a dilutive capital increase
- Defending a CEO subject to (i) an in futurum investigative measure initiated by former manager-shareholders seeking to gather evidence of potential fraud or corruption in connection with the sale of their shares, and (ii) an annulment action of such sale together with liability claims for breach of fiduciary duty
- Representing the executives and founders of a company in connection with the termination of their positions following the sale of their shares and the granting to the purchaser of a representation and warranties agreement
- Advising founders turned minority shareholders in connection with the forced enforcement of a pre-emption right provided for under a shareholders’ agreement
Defending selling shareholders who remained minority holders following their removal from office and the exercise by them of a call option over their remaining shares