Victoire Guespereau

Associate

巴黎 + 33.1.56.59.46.25

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Victoire Guespereau advises debtors, creditors, investors, and shareholders on all forms of French insolvency proceedings (sauvegarde, redressement judiciaire, and liquidation judiciaire) as well as complex cross-border restructurings. She delivers strategic counsel on matters involving operational or financial distress, whether through consensual out-of-court solutions or within court-supervised insolvency proceedings.

Her practice also encompasses strategic carve-outs, group reorganizations, and the sale of, acquisition of, or investment in distressed equity interests, as well as sensitive commercial litigation arising from insolvency matters.

She serves a diverse French and international client base, private equity firms, investment funds, banks, and corporates across a wide range of sectors, including pharmaceuticals, cloud computing, aeronautics, and household appliances.

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  • OVHcloud acquires Dragon LLMJones Day advised OVHcloud, a sovereign, global player and European leader in cloud, in the acquisition of Dragon LLM, a French company that develops specialized, sovereign generative AI models, originally founded under the name Lingua Custodia to target the financial sector.
  • GOJO Industries winds down its European operations via pan European court-supervised proceedingsJones Day advised GOJO Industries, a leading global producer and distributor of hand sanitiser, in connection with the underperformance of its European business.
  • Diebold Nixdorf obtains $1.25 billion senior secured exit credit facilityJones Day represented Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated, a multinational financial and retail technology company that specializes in the sale, manufacture, installation, and service of self-service transaction systems (such as ATMs and currency processing systems), point-of-sale terminals, physical security products, and software and related services for global financial, retail, and commercial markets, in connection with a new $1.25 billion senior secured term loan facility as part of it’s emergence from chapter 11 bankruptcy and other domestic and foreign court-supervised restructuring proceedings.
  • Diebold Nixdorf successfully restructures over $2.7 billion in funded debt and completes the first-ever dual proceeding under the U.S. bankruptcy code and Dutch restructuring law in 71 daysIn the first-ever cross border restructuring involving dual main proceedings under chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and a scheme of arrangement (the "Dutch Scheme") under the Dutch Act on Confirmation of Extrajudicial Plans (Wet Homologatie Onderhands Akkoord ("WHOA")), and the first-ever chapter 15 recognition of Dutch Scheme proceedings and a sanctioned WHOA reorganization plan (the "WHOA Plan"), Jones Day represented Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated ("Diebold") and certain of its U.S. and Canadian subsidiaries (the "Debtors") in connection with (i) the prepackaged chapter 11 cases of In re Diebold Holding Company, LLC, et al., (Case No. 23-90602-DRJ) commenced on June 1, 2023, in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas (the "Bankruptcy Court"); (ii) the Dutch Scheme, commenced on June 1, 2023 by Diebold Nixdorf Dutch Holding B.V. (the "Dutch Issuer") in the District Court of Amsterdam (the "Dutch Court"), and (iii) the chapter 15 proceedings before the Bankruptcy Court commenced by the foreign representative of the Dutch Issuer, wherein the Bankruptcy Court recognized the Dutch Scheme proceeding as a foreign main proceeding and recognized and extended comity to the WHOA Plan that was sanctioned by the Dutch Court.
  • American Industrial Partners Capital Fund VII takes control of Aluminium Dunkerque companiesJones Day has advised American Industrial Partners Capital Fund VII, L.P. in connection with the acquisition of the Aluminium Dunkerque companies through the foreclosure on the shares of Liberty France Industries 1 SA, which were pledged to affiliates of AIP under mezzanine financing arrangements previously provided to Aluminium Dunkerque, due to ongoing payment and other defaults.
  • Electrolux challenges extension of judicial reorganization procedure against one of its subsidiaryJones Day is representing the Swedish multinational home appliance manufacturer group Electrolux group in several lawsuits related to the interpretation of a decision of the French Supreme Court dated 11 March 2020 ruling on the annulment of an extension of judicial reorganization proceedings.
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