Private Equity

UGGC & Associés has recognized expertise in all domains of the Private Equity. Our firm is involved in transactions concerning all aspects of capital investment: venture capital, development capital, transmission capital and turnaround financing.

Venture Capital / Development Capital

Our firm’s Private Equity team has developed a strong practice of venture capital and development capital, with top ranking investment funds in particular (venture investment funds, proximity investment funds, investment funds for innovation).

Investment funds are assisted by lawyers who are experts on the technical and strategic issues specific to venture capital and development capital, and also have an in-depth knowledge of regulatory constraints, thus combining reactivity, legal security and capacity to be innovative.

Our firm’s expertise covers all issues:

- creating and structuring investment funds;
- assisting with investments made by the funds: drafting and negotiating memorandums of investment, shareholders’ agreements, guarantee agreements, issuing compound securities such as ABSAs, warrants, convertible bonds, convertible debentures, etc.;
- setting up management packages and investment tax strategies;
- fund ethics, relations with supervisory authorities (financial market watchdog…).

Capital transmission (Leverage Buy Outs)

Our firm’s Private Equity team is highly referenced in the field of leveraged acquisitions (LMBO, LMBI, BIMBO, OBO). The firm advises both investment funds and managers on all legal and tax issues of leveraged transactions:

- letter of intention, confidentiality commitment;
- due diligences and anticipating difficult aspects of a transaction (such as permits required in connection with the monitoring of concentrations in particular);
- setting up tax and profit sharing strategies for managers, drafting transaction structuring memo;
- drafting and negotiating legal acquisition documentation;
- drafting and negotiating transaction financing documentation.

Turnaround financing and financial restructuring

With our expertise of over 15 years in the area of collective proceedings, UGGC & Associés has developed a significant practice of turnaround financing transactions.

Our firm can be involved, before collective proceedings begin, as a consultant on renegotiation and restructuring plans of bank or bond loans made to companies or on behalf of capital investors wishing to make contributions to companies in trouble (purchasing an interest or granting structured loans).

Once collective proceedings have started, our firm assists its clients with the preparation of their takeover project, negotiations with the various parties involved (creditors, bodies in charge of proceedings), the scope of the takeover project, evaluation of risks, assistance in court and implementation of the takeover project.