Expertise

Business Litigation

Cabinet Ollivry intervenes in all types of business litigation, from corporate law disputes including shareholders disputes, directors’ liability, transfers and post-acquisitions, to financing-related disputes, and contractual and commercial liability issues.

In addition, we assist in civil and inheritance matters, cross-border disputes, and seizures and enforcement.

Experiences

Several French and international banks

Counsel in connection with litigation brought by investors following the Madoff fraud.

Several French and international banks

Counsel in connection with approximately one hundred proceedings brought by local entities in relation to so-called “toxic” financial products.

Mutual insurance group

Counsel to various entities within a mutual insurance group seeking to withdraw from a cooperative federation.

German investment fund

Counsel in connection with an action for nullity on grounds of fraudulent misrepresentation following the acquisition of a French industrial company.

Art investor

Counsel to a collector in connection with a conservatory seizure and judicial sequestration of approximately one hundred contemporary artworks valued at €200 million.

Chinese industrial group

Counsel to the beneficiary of an on-demand guarantee against a French issuer in connection with an industrial project in China.

Italian company

Counsel in connection with conservatory seizures enforced pursuant to an Italian judgment ordering a French company to pay hundreds of millions of euros in damages.

Real estate investor

Counsel to an investor sued for nullity of a real estate transaction on grounds of fraudulent misrepresentation (asset valued at tens of millions of euros).

Notary

Counsel to a Notary in connection with the forced sale of a protocol for the transfer of shares in their practice.

Bailiff

Counsel to a Bailiff in connection with an expert valuation of the transfer price of shares in their practice.

Succession

Counsel to two heirs in connection with contested wills, judicial partition proceedings and succession claims (estate jointly held at a value of €100 million).

Numerous shareholders / companies

Counsel in connection with a broad range of shareholder disputes involving removal from office, enforcement of share purchase undertakings, shareholders’ agreement claims, forced transfer of shares, mismanagement, and related matters.