Restore,

conquer

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demand, INTENSITY AND CONVICTION

Business law firm dedicated to resolving the difficulties faced by companies and their stakeholders.

A philosophy focused on performance, particularly for companies in difficulty.

CW brings together a dozen lawyers, the majority of whom have worked faithfully together for many years, mainly in commercial, civil, tax and criminal (business) law.

The differences in their profiles, backgrounds and seniorities enrich the professional qualities brought together around our interventions.Our assignments are always related to French and European Union law, but have no geographical limits, even if they are most often concentrated on the European continent, and mainly in mainland France.

The recent experience of our team's association within a major English and international law firm has confirmed the sense of our newfound independence, which has not diminished, on the contrary, the capacities and resources we mobilize without interruption in the service of our clients and assignments.  

We claim a positioning and even a philosophy, focused on performance, without sacrificing the requirement for security.We maintain an offensive culture of added value, which guides all our interventions, including in the handling of corporate difficulties, which is at the heart of our practice.  

Our maturities and characters are appreciated in this practice, reputed at times to be vigorous, or even virile.

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Companies supported

Restructuring

Restructuring

Cahn Wilson's team assists all stakeholders and partners involved in the fate of companies facing financial, economic and legal difficulties, in the preventive, amicable and/or judicial handling of corporate difficulties. It advises debtors, managers, buyers, suppliers and bank creditors, as well as shareholders and, where applicable, bondholders. Since 2013, Cahn Wilson has been faithfully identified as one of the leading French lawyers providing assistance to companies in difficulty, by Legal 500 and Chambers in particular.

Prevention / Turnaround

Prevention / Turnaround

Prevention: Mandat ad hoc and conciliation; negotiation under the aegis of the State (CCSF, Commissaire au Redressement Productif and CIRI); research, structuring and implementation, where appropriate, of back-up solutions and new money.

Company takeovers

Company takeovers

Cahn Wilson assists companies and their managers with takeovers and acquisitions.

We are involved from the earliest stages, from analyzing opportunities to negotiating and securing legal and financial aspects.

Collective proceedings

Collective proceedings

Advice, assistance and representation of companies and their managers in the context of insolvency, safeguard, reorganization or judicial liquidation proceedings, including opening of proceedings, monitoring of the observation period, search for recovery solutions, implementation and execution of recovery plans..

Civil and commercial litigation

Civil and commercial litigation

To defend, re-establish or even win, Cahn Wilson provides its clients with all the assistance they need in the amicable, preventive and judicial resolution of disputes, before civil, consular and criminal courts.

Cahn Wilson's approach to monitoring and managing contentious proceedings is rigorous, strategic and, more often than not, results-oriented, so as to better respect the stakes and costs involved.

Corporate

Corporate

Cahn Wilson usually drafts all the routine deeds of business life, whether for the establishment of commercial relationships, on the occasion of sale or acquisition transactions, or even for the legal secretariat of equity transactions.

Since 2017, the firm has been developing in-house, with a dedicated team, and already with success, complementary assignments for the search for industrial, commercial and/or financial partnerships, in order to optimize and make a success of joint ventures, which are not only sometimes, but more often than not - which is not to say that this is always the case, of course - the solution or alternative to the continued judicial treatment of a company's difficulties.

Our teams have earned their reputation through their in-depth technical knowledge of all aspects of business law. Our exacting standards and the experience we have acquired over more than 20 years also set us apart by our ability to assert our arguments, manage contradiction and defend the solutions that will unravel the most complex of issues.

We therefore attach the utmost rigor to the preparatory work for all our legal actions, in order to offer the most informed and effective advice and services possible. Our sole aim is to serve the interests and success of all our clients.

Our firm has long developed leading-edge expertise in the management of insurance companies' financial lines, and in particular directors' and officers' liability (D&O) policies, with the recognition and support of numerous institutional players in this market, to defend the objective community of interests between an insurer and its insured(s).

Banking industry

Banking industry

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Contemporary art market

Contemporary art market

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Investment funds

Investment funds

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Insurance companies

Insurance companies

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Industries

Industries

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Service companies

Service companies

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Press organizations

Press organizations

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Professional associations

Professional associations

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Audiovisual production

Audiovisual production

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Fashion groups

Fashion groups

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Administrators and court-appointed agents

Administrators and court-appointed agents

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Auditors

Auditors

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Serving your interests

The firm brings together a team of expert and complementary lawyers, whose varied backgrounds combine to offer the best possible collective intervention, and thus best serve the missions entrusted to it.

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Michael Cahn
Lawyer at the Paris Bar -
Founding partner
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Thomas Alho Antunes
Lawyer at the Paris Bar -
Senior Partner
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Sarah Mincel
Lawyer at the Paris Bar -
Confirmed partner
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Leslie Mankikian
Lawyer at the Paris Bar -
Confirmed partner
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Gérard Fohlen-Weill
Lawyer at the Paris Bar -
Partner Advisor