Alice Segard

Lawyer

She assists French and international clients, composed of public institutions, large groups, SMEs and start-ups, which she advises and represents for their business law disputes under French law, with a predominance for commercial litigation, before civil and commercial courts.

Contract drafting and negotiation

Litigation – Arbitration – Mediation

Restructuring and companies in distress

distribution contracts – franchise, commercial agency, exclusive and selective distribution
sale and service agreement
joint-venture

ad hoc mandate proceedings
conciliation, safeguard, receivership or judicial liquidation
appointment as controller
litigation of collective proceedings (recourse against judgments and orders, liability actions – nullity of the suspicious period, extension of proceedings, abusive support, etc. – professional or asset sanctions against the executive, actions in connection with debt verification, etc.)

Paris

French, English

2019 Nantes University, Distance Learning University Degree (DU) in Intellectual Property (With Honours)
2015 CAPA
2014 King’s College London, LL.M. (with merits)
2012 Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Master II Private International Law and International Trade

Assistance and representation of a company in the IT field in the context of termination of established commercial relationships relating to software development and operation.
Assistance and representation of a Belgian company in the agri-food sector, in its capacity as the so-called “de facto director” in the context of a liability action initiated by a judicial liquidator in connection with negotiations initiated before the judicial liquidation of a French group, for the purchase of said group (acquisition having failed).
Assistance and representation of a company in the banking sector in the context of a pre-litigation with the assignee and co-shareholder of two subsidiaries, in Benin and Togo, relating to the non-performance of the recapitalisation commitment entered into by the latter. This case is subject to French and OHADA law.
Assistance and representation of a Cameroonian public institution in connection with an action brought against French and Cameroonian financial institutions concerning failures in their account-keeping obligations.
Assistance and representation of a Togolese banking sector group in connection with actions to recover a debt of €35 million and the correlative implementation of securities, held by its Chadian subsidiary on a group of companies and individuals. This case has the particularity of being conducted under French and OHADA law.