At the service of managers and small, medium-sized or large business ventures, our firm has a wide scale of skills in business law. Our team will help you in all steps of your operations, to ensure their success, thanks to knowledge nurtured and developed at length since the firm was established.
Among our skills, you will find the organisation and redaction of your commercial agreements, commercial leases, corporate and commercial litigation, debt collection, establishment of the general sales conditions and help to your business when confronted with insolvency procedures
Skills
1. Commercial agreements
BH & Associés advises and assists businesses and individual, French and foreign, in the establishment of their commercial agreements. We help our clients during the whole contractual process, from the preliminary agreement to litigation that may arise after the signature of the agreement.
• Help in negotiating agreements: Offer of the best tools, legal advice
• Establishment of commercial agreements
• Help in the execution of agreements
• Extension or termination of agreements
• Forced execution of agreements
• Contractual liability
2. Corporate and commercial litigation
Based on its extensive experience, BH & Associés protects the interest of its clients in conflicts with their clients, suppliers, as well as shareholders, managers and other businesses.
Identify and prevent future risks also is a part of the arsenal of our lawyers, who perfected their legal techniques in such various cases as:
• Post-acquisition litigation (cancellation of sales, sellers’ liability, etc.)
• Management liability
• Conflicts regarding shareholders
• Implementation of asset and liability guarantees
• Abuse of minority or majority rights
• Litigation on the execution of commercial agreements
• Brutal break-up of established commercial relations
3. Debt collection
BH & Associés assists its clients in collecting debts, at every step of the pre- and post-litigation procedure:
• Negotiation with the debtor
• Formal notice
• Request and order for payment
• Procedure in front of the judge for the execution
• Preventive seizure, escrow
4. General sales conditions
Increasingly important obligation, the general sales conditions set the general terms of sales agreements between a supplier and its clients. In case one or more of its provisions is invalid, the legal consequences may be quite heavy: clauses deemed excluded, onerous accountability, etc.
BH & Associés advises you in the establishment of your general sales conditions in order to organise your contractual relations serenely and in terms complying with the legislation, in both form and substance, and therefore prevent any risk of conflict and maintain lasting relations with your clients.
5. Commercial leases
BH & Associés advises and assists its clients in negotiating and establishing commercial leases, and regarding related litigation.
6. Businesses in difficulty
BH & Associés developed a strong and efficient activity in preventing and treating the difficulties of businesses. As it is, we have strong skills regarding insolvency procedures and can assist you with every step of the procedure, whatever your quality:
Prevention of difficulties:
• Ad hoc mandates and conciliation
• Operations of liability restructuration
Treatment of difficulties:
• Assistance to businesses during safeguard, legal redress or judicial liquidations procedures
• Assistance of creditors: declaration of claim, appointment of controllers, enforcement of security rights, assistance during the procedure
• Responsibility of managers
Acquisition of businesses in difficulty:
• Establishment of trade-in offers
• Negotiation and assistance during the procedure