Biography

Anne-Sophie Noury is a partner based in the Paris office.
Anne-Sophie co-heads the Paris Restructuring/Insolvency practice at the Paris office of Weil Gotshal & Manges and is one of the preeminent restructuring practitioners on the French market, who is regularly recognized by her peers as a rising star.
She joined the firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP as partner in May 2019 after leading the restructuring practice of a French boutique for three years (2016-2019) where she created and developed the restructuring practice with the support of experienced lawyers.
Anne-Sophie has acquired an extensive experience in restructuring matters in the context of distressed LBO transactions, French and cross-border safeguard and reorganization insolvency proceedings, the outcome of which is either a business sale plan or a rescheduling plan and liquidation proceedings.
She has also acquired very good knowledge of the main corporate tools to restructure a debtor company or to set up a management package in connection with distressed LBO transactions. She has advised distressed funds and corporate clients on taking over distressed French companies in the context of either a share deal or an asset deal, Anne-Sophie is also extremely familiar with complex financing documentation.
Anne-Sophie embodies the rise of a new generation of leading lawyers.
Legal 500 called her “one of the best lawyers in her generation.”
Over the last three years, she has been involved in a significant number of major restructuring matters in France: CGG, Bourbon, SoLocal Group, Necotrans, Ascoval, Presstalis, Camaïeu & Sonia Rykiel.
She is a member of the Association du Retournement des Entreprises (ARE) and Insol Europe.
She became a member of the International Insolvency Institute in February 2018.
Anne- Sophie is part of the Women in Restructuring Network.
She has contributed to various publications.
In June 2019, she was a panelist on “The Recognition and Enforcement of Insolvency Related Judgments” at the 19th Annual III Conference Barcelona.
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Latest Thinking
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The Weil European Distress Index
Blog Post — Weil European Restructuring Watch
— By
Andrew J. Wilkinson,
Neil Devaney,
Britta Grauke and
Anne-Sophie Noury
— March 23, 2023
Corporate distress in the UK has risen to its highest level since June 2020, despite easing marginally across other key European markets, according to the latest Weil European Distress Index. The quarterly study, which aggregates data from more than 3,750 listed corporates and financial market indicators, reveals an increasingly mixed picture across Europe. While remaining ...