Practice areas

Temperaa is regularly involved in venture-capital, private equity and distressed M&A transactions with listed and unlisted companies, for French or foreign,  industrial or institutional clients (investment funds, family offices, etc.)

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Acquisitions and disposals of companies or strategic assets
• Venture capital and risk capital (structuring and fundraising)
• Issuing complex financial instruments
• Management incentive plans for executives and key employees
• Restructuring and equity transactions
• Creation of joint ventures
• Distressed M&A

Listed Companies

• Stock market regulations and relations with market authorities (AMF, Euronext, etc.)
• IPOs and secondary offering
• Tender offers and delisting
• Drafting of reference documents and financial reports
• Market abuse

Financing       

• Credit agreements, inter-creditor agreements and other financing agreements
• Collateral security or guarantee

Temperaa assists its French and foreign clients with technology or digital transformation projects and intellectual property issues. Temperaa provides its services in the following fields :

IT Sales or Procurement

• Contract review, drafting and negotiation for domestic and international transactions (software licensing, cloud solutions, data hosting, etc.)
• Assistance with IT procurements (pricing metrics, RFQ/RFP processes, risk analysis)
• Securing integration/development projects (agile methods, quality plans, reversibility, etc.)
• e-commerce (general terms and conditions)

Intangible Assets

• Protection of intangible assets (source code escrow, open source code)
• M&A IP/IT due diligence (software, database, website)

Personal Data and Privacy

• GDPR audits and tailored made compliance programs
• Outsourced DPO/ assisting the DPO
• Protection of e-reputation, image rights and privacy

Dispute Resolution

• Settlement negotiation, civil judicial expertise and trial litigation

Temperaa assist its clients with pre-insolvency and insolvency proceedings. Temperaa advises and represents debtors, managers, creditors and shareholders as well as trustees and creditor representatives.

Preventive or judicial treatment of difficulties

• diagnosis of the company's difficulties
• support during preventive procedures (ad hoc mandate, conciliation, credit mediation), safeguard procedures, receivership and judicial liquidation
• representation of the debtor before the bodies involved in the procedure

Assistance to buyers, creditors, partners and managers

• research and assistance in identifying targets for potential buyers
• preparation and submission of takeover bids for the purchase of companies in difficulty or of part of their assets
• negotiation of settlement agreements, debt restructuring agreements and investment agreements, within pre-insolvency or insolvency proceedings, on behalf of creditors and investors
• representation before the courts

Temperaa assists companies or managers, in France or abroad, in consulting and litigation, with HR strategies and day to day labor and employment issues. Temperaa provides its services in the following fields :

• Employment and corporate officers' contracts
• Management of the employment relationship (disciplinary procedures, harassment, mobility, etc.) and termination (individual or collective dismissal, negotiated departures, etc.)
• Compensation policy, employee saving plans, management packages
• Collective bargaining and management of relations with employee representative bodies (health and safety, working hours, pensions, insurances, etc.)
• Drafting of corporate documents (collective bargaining agreements, charters, etc.)
• Due diligence
• Assistance in relations with control bodies (social security, labor inspection, etc.)
• Defense and representation in civil, criminal and administrative jurisdictions

• IT litigation
• Civil judicial expertise
• Commercial litigation
• Contract litigation
• Post-acquisition and shareholder litigation
• Mediation
• Negotiations
• Settlements

Temperaa assists its French and foreign clients with the drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts. Temperaa provides its services in the following fields :

• IT sales or procurements: software licensing, cloud solutions, data hosting,  integration, development,  maintenance services
• Production infrastructure related contracts: commercial leases and professional leases, subleases, land concession contracts
• Production-related contracts: subcontracting, supply, cooperation agreements
• Distribution: general terms and conditions of sale, distribution contracts, franchise agreements, commission-affiliation, concession, license, referral agents, advertising, advertising agency, promotion

Temperaa assists its French and foreign clients with all issues related to consumer products’ risks and regulations. Temperaa leverages the collaboration of scientific experts to deliver pragmatic and relevant solutions.

Regulatory Monitoring and Advice

• Alerts on French and European consumer goods regulations
• Regulatory impact analysis
• Advice on a regulation applicable to a specific product: requirements applicable to the product & obligations/liability of the company
• Training on regulatory issues

Crisis Management

• Case by case assessment of the risks related to the product and the company
• Relations with stakeholders, in particular government authorities
• Crisis monitoring and control

Risk Management applied to consumer goods

• Company products’ risk mapping (in particular, in relation to health and environmental issues)
• Diagnosis and support in the implementation of risk management procedures