Henri Cazala

Practice Areas

Partner advising distressed companies, their boards, their shareholders, their creditors and industrial or financial investors on special situations, including debt restructurings, distressed M&A, and insolvency proceedings.

Recent work includes advising Crédit Agricole Assurances (Predica) on the restructuring, through a safeguard plan, of €600 million of debt held by Comexposium, a company co-controlled by Predica and the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry and on the €1.5 billion refinancing plan adopted by Clariane to strengthen its financial structure with the support of Predica in its capacity as key shareholder; and Canal+ on the acquisition from Orange of the OCS pay-TV package and its film and series co-production subsidiary, Orange Studio.

Professional Memberships

Member of the “Association pour le Retournement des Entreprises” (ARE) (French business turnaround association). Member of Insol Europe. Member of the International Bar Association (IBA).

Personal

Paris Bar (2011). Master’s Degree in Private International Law and International Trade Law, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2009), Master’s Degree in Private Law, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2008).