Annulment of the sale of the Be my Cookie cookie bars due to fraud

Two months to sink Bordeaux businesses. Three weeks to save them.

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Our partner Lutèce Bigand has just obtained, before the Bordeaux Commercial Court, the annulment for fraud of the sale of the cookie bars Be my Cookie. A victory after a race against time, against an organized downfall, cases of which are multiplying across the country — Baillardran having narrowly escaped the same fate.

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The scenario: a sale for a symbolic euro to a buyer who, on the day of signing, concealed an imminent ten-year management ban. Seventeen days later, this ban was pronounced. Two months without management, unpaid salaries, no supplies, and sixteen jobs threatened.

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An offensive strategy was deployed on three simultaneous fronts: gathering testimonies in Paris and Gironde to substantiate the recurring pattern, a detailed report to the Public Prosecutor's Office, and a request for the appointment of a provisional administrator. The President of the Commercial Court granted it. Attorney Antoine FEDRY (AJILINK) removed the transferee and allowed the business to continue operating.

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Annulment of the sale for fraud, return of shares to the sellers, and rectification of the Trade and Companies Register (RCS): a substantive procedure completed in three weeks, where it usually takes several months. The fight now continues with the directors to turn the company around.

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The case was featured in an article byAxelle Maquin-Roy for Sud-Ouest.