Fabienne Goubault
Fabienne Goubault is a partner with PLM Avocats in Paris, where she mostly focuses on restructuring and litigation. She has advised several distressed companies and their directors in the context of amicable restructuring proceedings under French law, several investment funds in the renegotiation of ailing LBO debts worth from EUR 30 to 50 million, a food and beverage company subject to an ad hoc mandate to find a new shareholder (namely an Asian company), and restructuring its acquisition debt,<br>the potential buyers of several businesses (including a fast-food franchise group and a company service group) in court-supervised sales. She also has defended company directors in several personal liability suits before the French courts, advised a Far East creditor in the recovery of real estate assets belonging to a European debtor, represented shareholders and former shareholders in the context of a dispute on the alleged breach of a shareholders’ agreement, and represented European clients in French court claims relating to the construction of buildings. Ms. Goubault was previously with Vier & Barthélémy<br>as special counsel before the French Supreme Courts before joining Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and<br>Dewey & Leboeuf LLP in Paris. She then became a founding partner of a pluridisciplinary firm in July 2011. Ms. Goubault is a former lecturer in Insolvency Law and Banking law at the University Paris II and a frequent speaker in professional training courses and University Seminars on Bankruptcy. She is a graduate of ESCP Business School in Paris, where she majored in economics via a joint program with Babson College in Boston, and she studied law at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), where she earned two Master’s degrees in business law and private international law and a post-graduate degree<br>in business law.