Vivant Avocats supports companies as they prepare and manage reorganisations, including workforce-related aspects. We challenge project goals and rationale, putting forward innovative, alternative solutions in which redundancies are only a last resort.
Our services, from strategic input through to project implementation:
- Employment law consultancy and risk assessment
- Legal structuring of projects
- Drafting documentation
- Developing arguments
- Managing employment relations and collective bargaining
- Handling relations with the authorities
- Crisis management, from PR to handling collective disputes
- Drafting documents for court proceedings
- Handling collective and individual litigation
Our ethos focuses on good-quality employment relations, social dialogue, balance, information-sharing, supportiveness, and risk prevention.
No negotiations and no flexibility mean no room for manoeuvre. Collective bargaining plays a key role in companies’ management, organisation, and performance. At Vivant Avocats, we see collective bargaining as offering plenty of scope for innovation, creativity, and quality employment relations at all levels: in national, branch, group, and company-wide agreements; in the interaction between these levels; and in how they mesh with mandatory requirements and other aspects.
Our services :
- Defining negotiating frameworks
- Defining the scope and topics for negotiations :
- Working time
- Vocational training
- Strategic workforce planning
- Handling collective disputes, etc.
- Negotiation strategy
- Drafting agreements
- Taking part in negotiations
- Gestion des aspects juridiques des relations et du dialogue social
- Managing the legal aspects of employment relations and social dialogue :
- Procedures for staff representative bodies
- Trade union law
- Dealing with labour-related disputes (elections, negotiations, agreements)
Mindful of the reality that employment law and company law are not mutually exclusive, Vivant Avocats’ attorneys have all worked in multidisciplinary organisations, giving them a real-life perspective on the business world that informs your national and international corporate projects.
Vivant Avocats assists companies in mergers, acquisitions, disposals, stake purchases, joint ventures, capital contributions, ipos, lbos, competition control, legal compliance control, and more.
Our corporate support services :
- Due diligence and corporate support audits
- Definition of the legal procedures forming part of the overall legal process
- Timetabling
- Assistance in drafting deeds
- Anticipating compliance audit risks
- Post-transaction management of company integration
- Deploying CSR, ESG ratings
- Compliance schemes (anti-corruption, compliance, French Sapin II Act, duty of care)
Our services address all the social implications of mergers and acquisitions :
- Transferring contracts of employment
- Collective status (collective bargaining agreements, etc.)
- Social protection schemes
- Outcomes for staff representative bodies
- Employee shareholding and savings schemes
- Preparing information/consultation and announcements for France and the EU
- Transfer litigation, challenges to articles of incorporation
Vivant Avocats benefits from an international network, facilitating regular work on international transactions.
Compensation is key when it comes to recognising an employment relationship, encouraging loyalty, and attracting talent. It can quickly become complex, requiring a thorough knowledge of a swath of rights, figures, and contractual techniques – all offering further scope for innovation and creativity.
Vivant Avocats joins forces with compensation and employee shareholding strategy consultants to support you as you seek to define and implement your policies for individual, collective, immediate, and deferred schemes.
Our services:
- Defining overall compensation policy and structure;
- Non-mandatory profit-sharing;
- Mandatory profit-sharing;
- Employee savings (company savings plans, group savings plans, collective pension savings plans, etc.)
- Employee shareholding (shares, stock, share purchase warrants, etc.)
- Compensation-related litigation
Vivant Avocats assists companies in the prevention and management of occupational accidents and diseases and in gross negligence claims.
The attorneys in the practice advise companies in their relations with social security bodies, employees, and their representatives, including ongoing assistance during litigation proceedings with social security bodies and employees.
Vivant Avocats also assists companies in how they apply social security legislation, in particular with regard to social security contributions, for instance during the course of compliance audits and inspections by social security bodies.
In addition, Vivant Avocats can advise its clients on how to implement social security cover in a company.
Litigation is a specialised field, and it’s what attorneys specialise in. That includes preventing, preparing, and handling litigation, as well as anticipating issues such as reputation risk, room for manoeuvre, and executive officers’ criminal liability exposure.
Vivant Avocats has an experienced team headed up by a former magistrate, ensuring we deliver excellence and exhaustive knowledge of legal proceedings, and enabling the firm to handle all types of litigation, including mass litigation.
Our services span litigation assistance and management for a range of proceedings :
- Industrial tribunals
- Social security
- Elections and appointments
- Administrative proceedings
- Collective proceedings
- Criminal proceedings (discrimination, obstructionism, harassment, occupational accidents, sub-contracting, working time, health and safety, undeclared loan of labour, improper subcontracting, etc.).