Legal skills
Collective procedure
Derriennic Associates advises its clients on all matters relating to insolvency and collective proceedings, whether they are businesses facing financial difficulties, court-appointed officers, company directors or wage-guarantee institutions.
The firm intervenes as soon as difficulties emerge (preventive support, mandat ad hoc, conciliation, safeguard proceedings, declarations of cessation of payments, negotiations with creditors, debtor guarantees, etc.), and continues to assist its clients throughout every stage of the collective procedure.
Derriennic Associates also advises creditors (claims, proof of claim filings, rights of retention, etc.) and is regularly entrusted with controller mandates, including by the AGS (Association for the Management of Employee Claims).
Our assistance extends to representing clients before labour courts in matters relating to insolvency proceedings, as well as in the context of business or asset transfers conducted under court supervision.
The firm’s principal areas of intervention include:
- Restructuring operations
- Assistance to governing bodies
- Mandat ad hoc
- Conciliation
- Assistance with declarations of cessation of payments
- Monitoring and management of the observation period
- Debt renegotiation
- Support in restructuring plans
- Monitoring of collective proceedings
- Defence of managers (actions for liability for insufficiency of assets)
- Assistance to creditors and proof of claim filings
- Creditors’ committees
- Claims and rights of retention
- Controller mandates