Lauriane Chauvet
Senior Associate
Lauriane is a restructuring and insolvency specialist, recognized for her precision and composure in guiding clients through complex matters.
Senior Associate
Lauriane is a restructuring and insolvency specialist, recognized for her precision and composure in guiding clients through complex matters.
Languages - French, English
Jurisdiction - France
Lauriane advises all stakeholders faced with an insolvency situation or crisis, including distressed companies, shareholders, creditors, investors, purchasers and insolvency practitioners. She assists them on all aspects of restructuring and insolvency matters, whether involving financial or operational restructurings or distressed M&A transactions, in both amicable frameworks and judicial insolvency proceedings.
She also has extensive experience in managing disputes connected with restructuring and insolvency situations, acting for clients both in claims and in defence, including appeals of insolvency court decisions, claim challenges, asset recovery actions, contract terminations, clawback actions, liability claims brought against directors, shareholders or other counterparties. She also advises on broader commercial disputes involving shareholders, creditors or business partners of distressed companies.
Before joining Stephenson Harwood, Lauriane worked for four years in the restructuring and litigation department of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, where she was involved in landmark restructuring transactions.
She is a graduate of Université Paris Nanterre and the University of Chicago (LL.M.) and is admitted to the Paris and New York Bars. Lauriane speaks French and English fluently.
Almaviva Santé
Advised Almaviva Santé, a leading group in the private healthcare sector, in its strategic acquisition of the Sainte-Marguerite clinic (Hyères), combining a court-approved asset deal in receivership proceedings with a major real estate transaction for the purchase of the clinic’s premises.
CMAI – Etablissements Sogal
Advised the CMAI Group, a leading manufacturer of interior doors, in the successful acquisition of selected assets and activities of the Keyor group, notably Magri and Réseau Bois, in receivership proceedings, and on the implementation of the transaction.
