Lynda BINATE
Lynda Binaté assists and represents French and foreign clients before commercial, civil or criminal Courts from prelitigation stage to the enforcement of decisions in any litigation case that may arise from business relationships. Lynda is also a specialist of financial services regulation and assists professionals of the financial sector especially asset managers and financial advisors in regulatory matters and in any financial or disciplinary litigation before judicial Courts or independent regulatory authorities (AMF and ACPR).
Member of the Paris Bar since 2007, Lynda holds a master degree in commercial Law from the university Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne and a Financial and accounting studies diploma (DECF). After gaining some work experience in the Legal Studies Department of the Commission bancaire now Autorité de Contrôle Prudentielle et de Résolution (ACPR), Lynda worked in an international Law Firm as an associate for eleven years before founding Deyla Partners.
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
Commercial litigation
- Assistance of a proposed acquirer of a company in a tort action for having allegedly terminated the negotiations wrongfully.
- Assistance of a company leader in supplying medical technology in an action for breach of contract in relation to a documentary credit for the delivery of a medical scanner to a joint venture in Saudi Arabia
- Assistance of a transport company in the negotiations with one of its biggest clients which terminated their established commercial relationships
- Assistance of the majority shareholder of a group of companies in a legal action against a bank for having wrongfully terminated their financing whereas the group was about to be sold
Corporate litigation
- Assistance of the manager of a company sued by his partner for alleged mismanagement further to the tax adjustment received by the company
- Assistance of the majority shareholders of a company which disputed that a provisional administrator should be appointed because of the alleged paralysis of the company due to the disagreement between its partners
- Assistance of the shareholder and managing director of a company in a tort action for fraud after he sold for a higher price the shares he acquired shortly before from one of his partners
Post-acquisition litigation
- Assistance of the seller of a company to be paid of the earnout provided in the share purchase agreement after he was revoked as manager by the acquirer of the company
- Assistance of the seller of a company sued for unfair competition by the acquirer
- Assistance of a shareholder in a dispute relating to commitments to sell shares to a determined price depending on the existence of a fault committed by the seller
Criminal law
- Assistance of the CEO of a company prosecuted for fraud due to the double financing of some assets of the company
- Assistance of a company victim of embezzlement of its funds by its accountant.
- Assistance of the CEO of a company developing tax optimization products prosecuted for (i) conspiracy to defraud investors and the State of France and (ii) misappropriation of his company’s assets.
Financial services
- Recurrent assistance of investment advisors and assets management company sued for malpractice by their clients
- Assistance of a portfolio manager before the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) in disciplinary proceedings initiated on the grounds that he would have not fulfilled his obligations relating to the management of conflict of interests.
- Assistance of an investment advisor investigated by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers concerning the scope of its activities in respect with the limits of its legal status
- Memorandum on the legal status necessary for structuring an investors club deal to finance the purchase of a building
- Assistance of a Canadian asset management company in order for it to deal with assets located in France for the benefit of clients located in France.
- Assistance of a client in the negotiation and the draft of an agency agreement for a credit broker
Lynda BINATE
+ 33 (1) 89 16 48 86
Lynda Binaté assists and represents French and foreign clients before commercial, civil or criminal Courts from prelitigation stage to the enforcement of decisions in any litigation case that may arise from business relationships. Lynda is also a specialist of financial services regulation and assists professionals of the financial sector especially asset managers and financial advisors in regulatory matters and in any financial or disciplinary litigation before judicial Courts or independent regulatory authorities (AMF and ACPR).
Member of the Paris Bar since 2007, Lynda holds a master degree in commercial Law from the university Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne and a Financial and accounting studies diploma (DECF). After gaining some work experience in the Legal Studies Department of the Commission bancaire now Autorité de Contrôle Prudentielle et de Résolution (ACPR), Lynda worked in an international Law Firm as an associate for eleven years before founding Deyla Partners.
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
Commercial litigation
- Assistance of a proposed acquirer of a company in a tort action for having allegedly terminated the negotiations wrongfully.
Assistance of a company leader in supplying medical technology in an action for breach of contract in relation to a documentary credit for the delivery of a medical scanner to a joint venture in Saudi Arabia
Assistance of a transport company in the negotiations with one of its biggest clients which terminated their established commercial relationships
Assistance of the majority shareholder of a group of companies in a legal action against a bank for having wrongfully terminated their financing whereas the group was about to be sold
Corporate litigation
- Assistance of the manager of a company sued by his partner for alleged mismanagement further to the tax adjustment received by the company
- Assistance of the majority shareholders of a company which disputed that a provisional administrator should be appointed because of the alleged paralysis of the company due to the disagreement between its partners
- Assistance of the shareholder and managing director of a company in a tort action for fraud after he sold for a higher price the shares he acquired shortly before from one of his partners
Post-acquisition litigation
- Assistance of the seller of a company to be paid of the earnout provided in the share purchase agreement after he was revoked as manager by the acquirer of the company
- Assistance of the seller of a company sued for unfair competition by the acquirer
- Assistance of a shareholder in a dispute relating to commitments to sell shares to a determined price depending on the existence of a fault committed by the seller
Criminal law
- Assistance of the CEO of a company prosecuted for fraud due to the double financing of some assets of the company
- Assistance of a company victim of embezzlement of its funds by its accountant.
- Assistance of the CEO of a company developing tax optimization products prosecuted for (i) conspiracy to defraud investors and the State of France and (ii) misappropriation of his company’s assets.
Financial services
- Recurrent assistance of investment advisors and assets management company sued for malpractice by their clients
- Assistance of a portfolio manager before the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) in disciplinary proceedings initiated on the grounds that he would have not fulfilled his obligations relating to the management of conflict of interests.
- Assistance of an investment advisor investigated by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers concerning the scope of its activities in respect with the limits of its legal status
- Memorandum on the legal status necessary for structuring an investors club deal to finance the purchase of a building
- Assistance of a Canadian asset management company in order for it to deal with assets located in France for the benefit of clients located in France.
- Assistance of a client in the negotiation and the draft of an agency agreement for a credit broker