Practice areas

Pauline Borczuch, Marion Moisan-Poissonnier and Sarah Madi bring expertise, rigor, clarity, and responsiveness to addressing each client’s legal issues.

Corporate law

Team led by Pauline Borczuch

Mergers and acquisitions
Legal and tax structuring of transactions; defining negotiation strategies

Conducting legal and tax due diligence, organizing and monitoring data rooms

Drafting and negotiating financing documentation (bank and bond financing)

Drafting and negotiating all pre-contractual documentation (letters of intent, memoranda of understanding, term sheets, etc.) and contractual documentation (share purchase agreements, representations and warranties agreements, share purchase options, etc.)

Managing closing and post-closing matters
Private equity and fundraising
Series A, B, and C financing transactions

Drafting and negotiating shareholder-relations documentation (shareholders’ agreements, etc.)

Leveraged buyouts (LBOs)

Implementation of management incentive packages (free shares, preferred shares, BSPCE warrants, etc.)
Corporate
Incorporation of commercial companies

Structuring and restructuring transactions (mergers, universal transfer of assets, partial asset contributions, business carve-outs)

Capital markets transactions (capital increases/reductions, issuance of complex securities, implementation of equity incentive instruments)

Ongoing legal support for companies and groups of companies
Commercial law
Commercial activity (advice on setting up a commercial business)

Drafting commercial contracts

Sale of business assets (fonds de commerce) and lease assignment

Drafting general terms and conditions

Employment law

Team led by Marion Moisan-Poissonnier

Defense of employers
Day-to-day practical HR management (support with collective bargaining, drafting collective agreements, remote-work charters, internal rules and employment contracts)

Supporting companies in their individual relations with employees (labor disputes, securing termination and disciplinary procedures, whistleblowing rights, occupational disease, work-related accidents)

Setting up and renewing employee representative bodies

Corporate restructuring operations, redundancy procedures

Assistance with labor audits

Litigation: support and defense before the Labor Court (Conseil de Prud’hommes) or the Social Division of the Judicial Court (disputes relating to performance or termination of employment contracts, criminal employment law matters, assistance with employer inexcusable-fault proceedings)
Defense of employees
Handling all legal aspects of the employment relationship and working conditions

Optimizing terms of entry and departure, assisting with negotiation of settlements and mutually agreed terminations

Assistance interpreting and applying collective bargaining agreements on an individual basis

Challenging dismissals for personal grounds (professional inadequacy, disciplinary grounds, or unfitness) and for economic grounds

Challenging fixed-day annual work arrangements (forfait jours) and related back-pay claims

Challenging working conditions (unfair performance of duties, breach of safety obligations, harassment, discrimination)

Assistance with labor court proceedings and before appellate courts (filing claims and defending employees)

Assistance with employer inexcusable-fault proceedings

Intellectual property/IT law

Team led by Sarah Madi

Intellectual property protection
Developing strategies to protect intellectual property rights

Analyzing the validity and availability of intangible assets, in particular trademarks and product shapes… (e.g., prior-rights clearance searches)

Filing and managing portfolios of intellectual property rights (trademarks, designs, etc.)

Drafting and negotiating confidentiality agreements
Intellectual property value creation
Intellectual property audits (investment and M&A transactions)

Drafting and negotiating intellectual-property-related contracts

assignment and license agreements,

manufacturing, distribution, franchise, partnership, and brand-collaboration agreements, influencer agreements,

agreements with photographers, videographers, models, and freelancers,

terms and conditions of sale/use, marketplace regulations, etc.

Risk analysis for the launch of products or content
Intellectual property enforcement
Upfront assessment of the chances of success of various actions

Pre-litigation matters (cease-and-desist letters, evidence gathering)

Online enforcement (monitoring and takedown of online content, unlawful websites and apps; fraudulent domain name transfer proceedings — UDRP, Syreli, and local equivalents; anti-phishing and cybersecurity)

Court litigation, as claimant or defendant, before courts and intellectual property offices (including oppositions, revocation actions, invalidity actions, infringement actions…)

Enforcement of judgments and decisions

Fees

The practical arrangements and fees of Mérimée Avocats are agreed upon with the client, who is kept regularly informed and involved in monitoring their matter.
Fees take into account the nature and complexity of the matter, response times, and the client’s particular situation.

They may be structured in several ways (hourly billing, flat fee, success fee) and are accompanied, where applicable, by a statement of work detailing the time spent on each task.