Mergers and Acquisitions

Velvet Avocats acts on behalf of executives, founders or managers, minority or majority shareholders, industrial or financing stakeholders, or public operators on equity operations and if necessary as part of negotiations and / or litigation that may occur during their existence.

For instance, Velvet Avocats acts in the following operations:

• Sales or acquisitions of business companies, in particular negotiation of contractual and pre-contractual documentation. (letter of intent, SPA, liability guarantee, due diligence or VDD)
• Private equity transactions: acquisition of minority shareholdings in venture capital or development transactions. (negotiation and implementation of the investment agreement and the shareholders’ agreement, issuance of securities)
• Setting up partnerships and joint-ventures, establishing agreements between shareholders within public, industrial or financial partnerships.
• Negotiations of management packages.
• Operations concerning simple or complex securities issuance as part of financing or executives and / or employees share schemes.

The team regularly publishes articles in the specialist press and on LinkedIn.