BDGS Associés is one of France’s leading independent law firms, specialising in mergers and acquisitions, competition and regulatory, tax, dispute resolution, restructuring and insolvency and finance. The firm is committed to providing a first-rate service that is tailored to the needs of its clients and focused on adding value, assisting clients on the most complex aspects of their domestic and cross-border transactions. - Mergers & Acquisitions: The firm’s lawyers are leaders in their field having worked on a large number of the most significant domestic and cross-border M&A transactions to have taken place in France during the last 35 years. - Competition & Regulatory: With offices in both Paris and Brussels, the firm’s competition practice advises on all aspects of competition and regulatory law at both a national and European level, including merger control, antitrust, state aid and complex competition litigation. - Tax: The firm advises on tax issues relating to high-end private equity and M&A transactions as well as with regards to real estate activities and high net worth individuals. - Dispute Resolution: The firm regularly handles a wide range of disputes before the French and European courts, regulatory authorities and arbitration tribunals, including shareholder disputes and competition litigation. - Restructuring & Insolvency: The firm’s restructuring practice advises distressed companies, their boards, their shareholders or industrial or financial investors in respect of out-of-court debt restructurings and insolvency proceedings. - Finance: The firm’s finance practice primarily assists companies and private equity funds as well as private debt funds on complex financing transactions in the context of domestic and cross-border corporate, M&A and leveraged and project financing transactions.