Etude Jouval

Areas of expertise

Everyday legal challenges require professional advice

Property rights

• Advice and representation in all areas relating to property (including neighborhood law, easements, and liens).

Traffic law

• Advice and representation in matters relating to traffic offenses (accidents, speeding, drunk driving) and license revocation.

Family law and inheritance law

• Advice and representation in all areas of family law (matrimonial property regimes, protective measures, divorce, filiation and adoption, partnership).
• Estate planning.
• Transfer of family businesses and SMEs.
• Taxation.

Commercial law, contract law, and economic law

• Establishment, restructuring, and liquidation of all types of companies.
• Advice and drafting of all types of contracts related to the company's activity (sales contracts, collaboration agreements, etc.).
• Corporate organization and governance.
• Implementation of financing, restructuring, sale, or purchase agreements (transformation, merger, spin-off, etc.) for companies.
• Negotiation, conclusion, and implementation of shareholder agreements, protection of their property and social rights.
• Business transfers.
• Business succession.

Labor law

• Advice and representation in matters of private and public labor law, in particular the drafting and review of employment contracts or company regulations, as well as in the event of individual or collective labor disputes (dismissal, collective redundancies, non-competition clauses, etc.).

Corporate law

• Advice and representation in disputes relating to company law (protection of shareholders' rights, annulment of a decision of the general meeting, liability action against a director, etc.).

Construction law

• Advice and representation in court in matters relating to agency contracts (architects' and engineers' contracts, etc.) and construction contracts.
• Proceedings relating to legal mortgages for craftsmen and contractors.
• Disputes concerning guarantees for defects in construction work.

Lease law

• Advice and representation for all matters relating to leases (repair of defects, eviction proceedings, etc.).
• Analysis, negotiation, and drafting of leases.

Criminal law

• Advice and representation in criminal law and criminal procedure, including economic crime.
• Development of defense strategies and assistance during investigations and trials.
• Drafting of complaints or civil claims.

Debt collection and bankruptcy law

• Advice and representation in all areas of debt collection and bankruptcy law, in particular restructuring procedures, including composition agreements.
• Requests for debt collection, requests for release from seizure, requests for receivership, requests for bankruptcy.
• Conducting proceedings on the merits in the context of debt collection, such as actions for debt relief, actions to cancel debt collection, actions to contest the status of collocation or the status of charges, etc.