Shareholder dispute and exclusion of a minority shareholder acting against the company’s interest

The matter

Advising and representing an international textile manufacturing group in its dispute with a foreign minority shareholder acting against the interest of the company through unfair competition, diversion of customers, disruption of the business and poaching of employees. Insertion of an exclusion clause in the articles of association, implementation of the procedure for the exclusion of a shareholder, judicial recognition of its regularity, assistance with the valuation of the excluded shareholder’s shares, then settlement of the accounts between the parties within confidential mandat ad hoc proceedings (article L. 611-3 of the French Commercial Code).