Corporate / M&A
LWM Avocats provides strategic support to growing companies, investors and structured groups on issues of corporate law, private equity, and complex transactions. Our expertise spans the entire life cycle of a company: creation, structuring, financing, restructuring and legal monitoring.
Our team is regularly called upon to provide support in high value-added areas, including legal and tax structuring of companies or groups; drafting of shareholder agreements; fundraising (equity and debt); equity investments; and asset contribution transactions. We also support clients with their investments in innovative companies and market transactions.
LWM Avocats stands out for its ability to work in synergy between the tax, IP/IT and employment law teams, particularly in the context of acquisition audits, due diligence processes and post-transaction monitoring (intra-group contracts, governance, partner relations, etc.).
Reconnue pour sa rigueur, sa réactivité et son accompagnement sur mesure, l’équipe s’adresse prioritairement aux start-ups et scale-ups, aux fonds d’investissement, aux holdings familiales et aux dirigeants souhaitant structurer ou faire évoluer leur entreprise dans un cadre sécurisé.
Areas of practice
- Creation of companies (SAS, SARL, etc.)
- Structuring of corporate groups
- Drafting of shareholder and partner agreements
- Clients : Entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, family groups, holding companies, co-founders, investors
- Fundraising (equity and debt)
- Capital increases, bond issues
- Asset contributions, mergers, restructurings
- Clients: Start-ups, scale-ups, SMEs, intermediate-sized enterprises, investment funds, growing groups or groups undergoing restructuring
- Minority or majority equity investments
- Support for investments in innovative companies
- Legal and tax structuring of private equity transactions
- Clients: Venture capital funds, development capital funds, business angels, family offices, corporate investors
- Market transactions (IPOs, stock market listings, private placements)
- Structuring of investment vehicles
- Clients: Growing companies, holding companies, investment banks, investment funds
- Intra-group contracts, post-transaction governance
- Partner relations, post-agreement follow-up
- Clients: Structured groups, boards of directors, legal departments, partners and shareholders
- Legal, tax, IP/IT and social audits during the acquisition phase
- Clients: Investors, acquirers, M&A firms, funds
