Combating delays in payments

Late and unpaid payments are a scourge for businesses. 

Your first challenge is to limit late payments so that your cash flow is not penalized. 

Your second challenge is to avoid non-payment, which will impact your margin and the profitability of your company. 

Debt collection procedures are essential. 

Our method to limit late and unpaid payments

GOUACHE AVOCATS intervenes in the first instance before late payment and non-payment:
 

contractual
• organisation of the protection of your receivables (by your GTCs): interest, penalty, exception to non-performance, revocation of supplier credit, organisation of conventional payment guarantees;
  
• organisation of the reminder and formal notice process (drafting of standard letters to be implemented in an automated manner), as well as monitoring of outstanding amounts and debtors.
   

When an unpaid debt persists despite these precautions, we implement with you a collection strategy adapted to the stakes to seek to recover your debts amicably, but also judicially if necessary:
 

• drafting of lawyer’s letter for formal notice to pay;
  
• preservation of your claims by the taking of guarantees (conventional or by judicial authorization, precautionary seizures, judicial mortgages, judicial pledge of goodwill);
• obtaining an enforceable title to your claims (order for payment, interim relief procedures in particular);
• coordination of seizure measures to obtain the attribution seizures or to have the pledged assets judicially realized;
• declarations of claims and defense of the claim against the bodies of the collective proceedings (safeguard, reorganization or judicial liquidation) of your debtor.
   

Gouache Avocats supports you in limiting payment deadlines and bad debts

Anticipation through the implementation of systematic processes based on appropriate GTCs makes it possible to limit abnormal payment deadlines and bad debts. 

The early assistance of the Gouache Avocats team on key debts allows a better recovery rate: it is necessary to anticipate the debtor’s situation as much as possible and not to play all the late shots to recover well. 

Gouache Avocats has the ability to manage massive collection processes through appropriate software tools and can manage serial collection disputes for the same creditor.