Thomas Doyen

Thomas Doyen represents clients in major French pre-insolvency and insolvency proceedings cases, as well as high-profile out-of-court and complex cross-border restructuring matters.

Thomas leverages extensive experience across multiple industries to guide corporates, management teams, private equity sponsors, hedge funds, credit funds, banking institutions, and alternative capital providers on:

- Balance sheet restructurings (out-of-court or judicial), including loan-to-own and debt-to-equity swap strategies

- Distressed new money financing

- Acquiring or selling distressed businesses through share deals (distressed M&A) or asset deals under insolvency proceedings (plan de cession)

- Restructuring litigation cases

- Alternative / special situation matters

Thomas is a member of the Association pour le Retournement des Entreprises (ARE), INSOL Europe, and the Young Restructuring Professionals Association (Association des Jeunes Professionnels du Restructuring, or AJR). He has been involved in several working committees of the main restructuring professional association (ARE), including the one in charge of working on the transposition in France of the EU Directive on restructuring and insolvency. Thomas frequently lectures on restructuring matters at business law schools.