Assign or defend against a distributor

As war is the extension of diplomacy, litigation is the extension of unfinished pre-litigation discussions. Its virtue is most often to allow its completion. In economic matters, due to the importance of the time factor, it is often essential to quickly find an acceptable arrangement.

As lawyers for distribution networks, our approach to litigation lies primarily in the prevention and anticipation of these.

When litigation occurs, our knowledge of distribution networks and distribution law allows us to be very pro-active with you in researching and producing relevant evidence. 

Your challenges can be financial, defending your network, your economic model or others. In any case, your litigation challenge is to reduce the uncertainty related to the procedure: we are here to reduce it as much as possible and achieve all the reasonable objectives of the litigation.

Method for assisting the heads of networks against a distributor

We define with you the litigation strategy after analysis of the documents and the legal situation to define the litigation strategy and decide on the means, including budgetary means to devote to litigation.

We have the capacity to conduct multiple, fast and if necessary aggressive procedures, taking into account that the distributor is most often economically weaker than the network promoter, and that, as is often the case, does not have the means to pursue and/or lose complex instances and may prefer a fast transaction. 

We have managed very high-stakes disputes in distribution and competition law in recent years: 

• litigation where the claim amounts were several tens / hundreds of millions of euros; 

• litigation involving many distributors of a network and/or associations of distributors; 

• litigation of a systemic type, threatening the construction /economic model of a distribution network. 

We assign to the treatment of litigation associate lawyers, law professors and very experienced members of the team: the choice of arguments, the management of the procedure is a subtle art that requires in-depth experience to produce a result. 

Better chances of success for your litigation against a distributor

The outcome of litigation is more predictable, the outcome better controlled and the objectives most often achieved.