{{insights.date}}
{{insights.type}}
{{insights.contentTypeTag}}
Florence Cotillon
Partner
Florence Cotillon specialises in corporate law and reorganisations of entities and groups.
She assists French and international clients in their day-to-day or one-off operations involving their French entities, from their establishment in France to their dissolution.
Her areas of expertise include, in particular, shareholders’ relations, status of directors, delegations of powers, day-to-day corporate matters, operations on share capital and on equity, all types of reorganisations, national or cross-border (mergers, demergers, partial contributions of assets, TUP, transfers of assets or activities, etc.).
- Restructuring of the French entities of an international real estate group.
- Global restructuring, as part of a merger, of one of the leading French groups in the sugar industry.
- Global restructuring, with a view to both organisational and tax optimisation, of one of the leading French groups in the fields of electrical engineering, information and communication systems and related services.
- Setting up of the “securities management” activity within one of the world's leading French banking groups.
- Assistance in issuing securities for one of the leading French groups in the field of text mining software publishing.
- Assistance in the acquisition of a family group by one of the leading French private groups in Europe in the field of public transportation.
- Assistance in the creation of a common mutual insurance company by means of contributions and portfolio transfers of existing mutual insurance companies.
Education
- Université Paris-Sud, D.E.S.S., de fiscalité international, 1987
- Panthéon-Assas University, Maîtrise, de Droit des affaires et fiscalité, 1986
- Université Lyon III – Jean Moulin, M.S., de sciences de gestion, 1983
Admissions
- Paris, 1992
Languages
- French
- English
- Best Lawyers 2023
- “Jurisclasseur Formulaires Sociétés, sociétés anonymes” (companies forms for French corporations), models to be used in order to draft the Articles of Association, 1993 and updates.
- “Jurisclasseur Formulaires Sociétés, sociétés anonymes” (companies forms for French corporations), models to be used in order to draft all the legal documents relating to decrease of the share capital’s operations, 1993 and updates.
- “Jurisclasseur Formulaires Sociétés, sociétés à responsabilité limitée” (companies forms for French limited liability companies), models to be used in order to draft the Articles of Association, 1993 and updates.