Our international, interdisciplinary teams can advise on the establishment of subsidiaries, cross-border acquisitions, restructuring of multinational groups or mergers of individual corporate entities. Globalisation and digitalisation facilitate fast-track business operations and communication, making cross-border activities as commonplace as ever.
To ensure your international partnerships thrive and your business grows, our mergers and acquisitions (M&A) specialists support you in complex processes from the sale and acquisition of companies to setting up joint ventures, helping you overcome obstacles to ensure your goals are achieved.
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Tax
Oratio Avocats has proven expertise in many sectors of activity and benefits from the support of members of the Baker Tilly International network worldwide. Its strength lies in supporting companies, groups and executives in their business and wealth management challenges by securing their decisions.
- Taxation of transactions and restructuring
- International taxation
- Transfer pricing
- Assistance with tax audits and litigation
- VAT
- Tax audits and diagnostics
- Income and wealth taxation – IFI – Inheritance
- Local taxes
- Management package (AGA, BSPCE, stock options, etc.)
- Taxation of non-profit organisations
Company law – Mergers and acquisitions
At every key stage of your business and in a constantly changing regulatory environment, Oratio Avocats helps you optimise and organise your ambitions and projects from a legal perspective.
- Company starting up
- Shareholder agreements – Governance
- Legal monitoring of companies
- Group structuring
- Capital and balance sheet transactions
- Transfer – external growth
Employment
To ensure that labour relations regulations are no longer a headache for human resources departments and company directors, Oratio Avocats provides responsive, comprehensive and practical support.
- Individual relations
- Social controls
- Collective relations
- Dispute resolution
Contracts – Distribution – Consumption
From drafting industrial and commercial contracts to acquiring a business, Oratio Avocats draws on its wide range of skills to assist you.
- Business transfers
- Commercial leases
- Industrial and commercial contracts
- Distribution law – consumer law
- International trade
Business litigation – Arbitration – Mediation
Throughout the entire process, our lawyers will support you with determination and provide you with their experience in litigation strategies.
- Commercial litigation
- Company law litigation
- Litigation relating to the breach of pre-contractual and contractual relationships
- Unfair competition
- Industrial litigation
- IT litigation
- Arbitration and ADR
Restructuring – Companies in difficulty
With in-house cross-disciplinary expertise, Oratio Avocats’ dedicated teams are involved in all aspects of dealing with companies in difficulty, from prevention to resolution. They also assist buyers seeking acquisition or external growth opportunities.
- Risk analysis
- Implementation of preventive procedures (ad hoc mandate, conciliation)
- Implementation of collective procedures such as safeguard, receivership or compulsory liquidation
- Preparation, negotiation and drafting of the continuation plan
Intellectual property and new technologies
Drawing on its recognised expertise in intellectual property, the Oratio Avocats team provides long-term protection for your intangible assets.
- Trademark law, design law, patent law
- Image rights
- IT law (software ownership, Internet)
- Patent/trademark registration in France and abroad
- Licence agreements, transfer of intellectual property rights
- Infringement proceedings
Real estate
We have developed a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary approach to provide all players in the real estate sector with a complete range of services:
- Drafting of real estate contracts
- Drafting of property-related documents
- Urban planning management and litigation
- Participation in real estate development projects
- Litigation related to property sales
- Environmental risk management
- Settlement of construction disputes
- Conflicts relating to co-ownership
Rural law
Oratio Avocats supports and advises agricultural businesses in their establishment, restructuring and transfer processes. Its knowledge and expertise in rural law also enable its teams to assist agricultural businesses with land and regulatory issues.
- Setting up agricultural or wine-growing businesses
- Restructuring and transfer of agricultural or wine-growing businesses
- Rural leases, sharecropping – land issues
- Regulatory procedures for farms
- Asset and family management
Criminal law
In light of the increasing criminalisation of business life, Oratio Avocats’ dedicated teams advise you on criminal risk prevention in companies and assist you before all courts:
- Accidents at work
- URSSAF disputes, labour inspections
- Offences committed by employees (theft, breach of trust, etc.)
- Cybercrime
- Fraud against the CEO
- Traffic litigation
Property law
Thanks to constant monitoring of current legislation and experience gained from over 30 years of handling legal disputes and amicable proceedings, Oratio Avocats can provide you with advice tailored to your specific needs.
- Matrimonial property regimes
- Inheritance and division of joint property
- Adoption
- Separations and divorces
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Our skills
For over 50 years, Oratio Avocats has been supporting you in a relationship built on trust and proximity.
As a member of the Baker Tilly network, which brings together 43,515 professionals of different nationalities in 143 countries across all continents, we are able to act anywhere in the world to advise you on your actions, secure your operations, and represent or defend your interests.
Our services
Whatever your needs, wherever you are, Oratio Avocats is committed to taking the time to understand your business, your challenges and your projects, to advise you and to design the most appropriate legal solutions for you. Thanks to the diversity, excellence, variety and interprofessional nature of our expertise, we are able to meet all your strategic and operational needs. Keen to be as close as possible to your needs, we have built a range of services around specialised centres dedicated to business performance.
A team of experts at your side
Our highly specialised legal experts have a sound understanding of business operations and will assist in negotiating and drafting commercial agreements. This means that you can rely on a solid foundation for your international partnerships and commercial agreements. Through interdisciplinary exchange and our vast knowledge of international contract standards, complex intra-group circumstances can be organised and regulated.
Benoit
Brossard
Partner Lawyer Oratio Avocats - Corporate, M&A and Commercial
Louis
Poinsinet de Sivry
Accountant
Guillaume
Clouzard
Litigation - Insolvency
Cédric
Berto
Intellectual Property
Mathieu
Beauchant
Lawyer specialized in labor law and international mobility
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