Saint Georges Avocats

Business Lawyers

The firm's lawyers are renowned for their professional practice in business law and contract law, as well as for the usual operations of commerce, whether banking or insurance.

Our Business Lawyers regularly intervene in the following areas:

Purchase and sale of goodwill or clientele, creation of a company or takeover of businesses

Our clients most often ask us to intervene for purchases or sales of goodwill. Often, the companies are in society and it is necessary to choose between the transfer of the shares or the transfer of goodwill. The advantage of the choice is to pay less registration fees or costs when carrying out the operation. We draft the deeds of acquisition or sale of companies and goodwill only after we are assured of the feasibility and viability of the operation. Before buying a "business", it is necessary to inquire about its value, and the parties generally provide for the consequences of their agreement in a letter of intent or a promise of purchase and sale, which includes obligations of precise information,

Employment contracts, subcontracting

We also assist companies in the context of the day-to-day management of their business contracts, in particular for the employment of employees or the subcontracting contracts that they may conclude.

Commercial development and corporate real estate

As part of the establishment of new shops or new stores, we draft legal documents for the acquisition, lease, renovation or construction of business real estate.

Commercial contracts, partnerships

We regularly draft and review terms and conditions of sale or service such as updating them, due to new consumer law, drafting or reviewing partnership or co-branding contracts or inter-company trade agreements. E-COMMERCE. Many of our customers are internet shops. E-commerce presents a growing part of developments in consumer law in which we have eminent specialists, particularly in the field of group actions with distance selling.

Risk management – ​​fraud

The management of a company does not happen without a bank, insurance or transport system. Asset integrity management and the fight against any form of predation must remain priorities, and we intervene in the context of any fraud that may occur, which is most of the time committed by staff.

Prevention of business difficulties and handling of disputes

Safeguarding, legal redress and liquidation, commercial litigation, unfair competition, fraud and counterfeiting, litigation between partners or between companies, performance of contractual commitments, enforcement of guarantees.

Insurance Lawyers

Our Lawyers are practitioners renowned for their professional practice in insurance law thanks to a long experience acquired in the service of the largest insurance companies, particularly in the field of construction insurance, industrial risks and professional liability.

Today, our clients ask our Insurance Lawyers to intervene against their insurance company when it refuses to implement the guarantees subscribed to in their insurance policy, for various reasons.

They also ask us to intervene to challenge a professional liability due to damage that has been caused to them, whether this damage is personal or economic.

Indeed, there are few accidents that do not leave a causal relationship and that are due exclusively to a twist of fate or a case of force majeure. In this case, it is the search for civil liability and its implementation that will determine the responsible assets and the extent of its reparation debt and therefore that of its insurer.

In this regard, our clients most often ask us to intervene in the following areas:

• Damage insurance, work damage, machine breakdown, operating losses, damage compensation
• Liability of product manufacturers, industrial risks, operator risks, IT risks
• Liability of builders, two-year, ten-year warranty, natural disasters
• Accidents, fires, explosions, miscellaneous risks, water damage, theft, burglary, car insurance, home insurance, inexcusable fault of the employer
• Professional civil liability: architects and contractors, design offices, banks and financial institutions, product manufacturers, pharmaceutical laboratories, etc.
• Compensation for bodily injury, domestic accidents, car accidents, transport accidents
• Responsibilities of insurance companies and agents or brokers
• Proceedings before the tribunal de grande instance or the commercial court

Criminal Lawyers

The lawyers of the firm are renowned for their professional practice of business criminal law and criminal procedure where they obtain results to guarantee the security, freedom and fundamental rights of people.

Our Lawyers are renowned for their practice of criminal law and criminal procedure where they intervene to defend people whether they are implicated during police investigations, indicted before the examining magistrate, even referred to the criminal court to be tried for one or more offences, whether they are imprisoned or victims of offences.

We have intervened in the major lawsuits that make the legal headlines, such as the Mediator case where we defend several dozen victims or during the Bretigny sur Orge rail disaster where we defend more than fifteen victims (in the review Press).

Our clients most often ask us to intervene in the following areas of business criminal law:

• Defense of the defendants, police investigations, police custody, indictment, summons to the accused before the Criminal Court, Court of Appeal, Court of Assizes, requests for release, erasure of the criminal record, requests for restitution of assets seized
• Criminal traffic law, traffic offences, criminal traffic law, driving licenses and transport licenses, traffic accidents, driving while alcoholic or under the influence of narcotics
• Theft, fraud, breach of trust, fraud committed by employees, social fraud, tax fraud, insurance fraud, bank fraud, document fraud
• Criminal consumer law, repression of consumer fraud, labeling, food fraud
• Labor criminal law, safety and hygiene in the company, accidents at work, homicides and involuntary injuries
• Criminal transport law, breaches of driving and cabotage rules, traffic accidents
• Customs criminal law, customs offences, indirect contributions, offenses in financial relations with foreign countries
• Business criminal law, breach of trust, money laundering, forgery and use of forgery, misuse of corporate assets, damage to the environment
• Criminal press and communication law, defamation, insults, invasion of privacy, harassment
• Offenses committed by foreign nationals, relief from inadmissibility
• Defense of victims of crimes or offences, civil action before the Criminal Court or the Court of Assizes, claims for damages