Florence Cotillon’s practice focuses, for all kind of entities and group of entities (companies, economic interest groups, associations, mutual associations, insurance companies, pension and contingency funds, agricultural cooperatives), on:

• Corporate law, both for day–to–day advise (notably concerning the relationships between shareholders / members / managing directors, in accordance with Articles of Associations or other agreements) and for occasional transactions (notably regarding equity operations or drafting of shareholders agreements),
• Restructuring transactions (in particular, mergers, split–ups, spin–offs, complete transfer of assets and liabilities),
• Transfers and acquisitions.

Publications

“Jurisclasseur Formulaires Sociétés, sociétés anonymes” (companies forms for French corporations), forms to be used in order to draft the Articles of Association, 1993 and updates.

“Jurisclasseur Formulaires Sociétés, sociétés anonymes” (companies forms for French corporations), forms to be used to draft all the legal documents relating to decrease of the share capital’s operations, 1993 and updates.

“Jurisclasseur Formulaires Sociétés, sociétés à responsabilité limitée” (companies forms for French limited liability companies), forms to be used in order to draft the Articles of Association, 1993 and updates.

Representative Experience

• Overall restructuring of one of the French leading groups of the sugar industry, within the framework of a merger.
• Overall restructuring of one of the French leading groups specialized in energy networks, information and communication systems and relating services, for tax and in-house organization optimization purposes.
• Legal setting up of the activity of « securities management » for one of the French worldwide leading banking groups.
• Assistance in the issuing of securities by one the French leading groups providing Text Analytics software solutions.
• Assistance in the acquisition of a family group by one of the largest private French operators of public transport networks in Europe.
• Assistance in the constitution of a joint mutual association, by spin-off and portfolios’ transfers of existing mutual associations.