CORPORATE & M&A

The Corporate – M&A department of WAN Avocats advises start-ups, SMEs, and international groups at every stage of their development, in both advisory and contentious matters.

Our team assists clients with day-to-day corporate structuring and governance as well as with strategic transactions and complex reorganizations.Our areas of expertise include, in particular:

• the incorporation and structuring of companies (shareholders’ agreements, governance frameworks);

• fundraising, equity investments, capital reorganizations, and investor onboarding (private equity);

• external growth transactions (acquisitions, joint ventures, mergers, partial asset contributions, carve-outs);

• business transfers and disposals, including family, industrial, and leveraged transactions (LBOs);

• advising companies and management teams on the negotiation, structuring, and implementation of incentive schemes (management packages);

• ongoing corporate maintenance (approval of accounts, by-law amendments, governance matters);

• prevention and resolution of disputes between shareholders or within management bodies;

• supporting distressed companies, both in the implementation of preventive measures (mandat ad hoc, conciliation) and in judicial insolvency proceedings (safeguard, receivership, or liquidation).