Litigation
Litigation
The firm can handle the highly technical litigation in this sector thanks to its excellent knowledge of the automotive industry and the industry's main players.
This type of litigation requires a high degree of attention and a strong sense of diplomacy, as it may involve the big names of the automotive industry set against their sub-contractors. It is therefore important, when the firm acts on behalf of a sub-contractor in conducting the litigation on a specific issue, that a good business relationship is maintained between the subcontractor and its client.
In this sector, the firm's clients are mostly 1 st and 2 nd tier small and medium-sized businesses, which manufacture spare parts or automobile parts.
The firm's clients include Italian, German, British and French businesses with a turnover of between 40 million and 1.6 billion Euros.
The issues may involve, for example, litigation relating to automotive supply agreements, technical incidents and fleet recalls.
- Price negotiations, negotiation of general terms of sale and purchase, negotiations pertaining to the sharing of raw materials costs
- Litigation: defending a French company against an American company placed under Chapter 11. The French company received payment of the sums owed to it
- Acting for a packaging company in recovering its moulds from a sub-contractor experiencing financial difficulties
- Termination of a business relationship in the automobile industry
- Product defect liability
Real estate litigation
The firm's other specialism, in terms of Litigation, is in the real estate sector. Litigation in this area may include co-ownership disputes, construction litigation and issues pertaining to leases, whether for the lessor or the lessee.
Recent real estate litigation work
- Rent reviews
- Wrongful lease termination
- Valuations
BRI litigation
Numerous disputes may arise from insolvency procedure such as actions for recovery, claims of creditors, reserve title, creditor's filing, purchase assets plan.
Kuntz&Associés handles all litigations linked to insolvency.
- Opening of secondary procedure under EC regulation 1346/2000
- preliminary question to the ECJ
- International actions for recovery
- Seller's liability
- Real estate and lease disputes
- Opening of a safeguard procedure of a French group of companies in automotive industry