Executive & Manager/C-Level Departures

LWM Avocats provides strategic and legal support to executives and companies, particularly at key moments such as the departure or termination of company officers, directors, executives or managers.

We take a cross-disciplinary approach, drawing on our cutting-edge expertise in tax law, employment law and commercial litigation to secure each stage of this delicate transition and guarantee legal certainty.

With our interdisciplinary capabilities and thorough understanding of the human, legal and economic issues involved in executive departures, we provide both upstream (advice, risk anticipation, auditing) and downstream (litigation management, exit negotiations, mediation) services to offer a 360-degree view of the issues related to departure.

LWM Avocats supports clients – companies, executives and managers – in the following areas:

• Financial aspects, including optimization of all tax and social security charges associated with executive departures (severance payments, AGAs (RSUs under French law), BSPCEs (startup stock options under French law), stock options, management packages, capital gains regime, etc.).
• Contractual aspects,  including drafting and securing of departure protocols, negotiation of severance payments, management of disputes related to the status of company officers and directors (particularly for executives of SAS, SA or SARL companies), and application of specific social security regimes.
• Litigation aspects, including anticipation and management of disputes arising from the departure of an executive, corporate officer or director (unfair competition, breach of non-competition commitments, disputes between partners, liability of outgoing executives, forced sale and valuation of securities, etc.).