Herve Diogo Amengual

Hervé’s experience includes representing:

• The shareholder in the bankruptcy proceedings and pre-pack sale of its French biotech subsidiary
• The unitranche lender in the restructuring of the financing of the People & Baby Group
• The unitranche lender in the restructuring of the LBO financing relating to the acquisition of Football Club Girondins de Bordeaux
• The unitranche lender in its acquisition of the BVA Group, the third-largest French market research and consulting firm    
• One of Europe’s leading paper manufacturers in its bid to acquire the specialty papers business of Greenfield, an ArjoWiggins Group company, in a bankruptcy proceeding
• A leading US company in the pharmaceutical industry in the context of the acquisition, in bankrupcy proceedings, of the assets of Biom’Up, a company specializing in the manufacture of haemostatic products     
• Debt and private equity funds as shareholders in the debt restructuring of Delsey Group
• A leading international bank as agent in the financial restructuring of CGG 
• The major senior lender in the restructuring and acquisition of control of Mediannuaire Holding, the parent company of Solocal Group (formerly PagesJaunes Groupe), the French listed directories company
• One of the world’s leading print and finishing systems companies to acquire certain businesses from the Goss Group
• Shareholders in Hediard’s bankruptcy proceedings (delicatessen)     
• A bondholder in the expropriation by the Dutch state of securities issued by SNS Reaal NV and SNS Bank NV     
• One of the market leaders in prepaid business services, with respect to acquiring the business of one of its distributors out of bankruptcy (service vouchers)     
• The major supplier in the restructuring of AreaFranceram (tile manufacturing)     
• The lenders in the restructuring of the capital structure of Tiama, a world leader in hollow glass inspection solutions, leading to the transfer of control of the group through a debt-to-equity swap
• The major creditor in the judicial liquidation proceedings of Alkor Venilia (self-adhesive PVC papers and frames)     
• The major bondholders in the financial restructuring of Orco Property Group (real estate investment and development)  
• Various purchasers of certain assets of Nortel Networks SA and Nortel Networks France (engineering, manufacturing, installing, and distributing telecommunications systems)   
• A group specializing in building maintenance, repair, and renovation, in their bankruptcy proceedings