# Driss FALIH
Role : Partner
Organization : Mac Mahon Avocats
Location : Paris, France
URL : https://avyonia.com/en/carte/driss-falih

## Summary
Co-founding partner at Mac Mahon Avocats, specialized in legal and financial restructuring of distressed companies for over twenty years.

## Profile
Co-founding partner at Mac Mahon Avocats, Driss FALIH has been advising companies facing distress, transformation or crisis situations for over twenty years.

His expertise covers preventive and collective proceedings as well as complex debt restructuring. He began his career in the Banking & Finance departments of White & Case, Shearman & Sterling and Weil Gotshal & Manges, specializing in structured finance and LBO/M&A transactions.

Before founding Mac Mahon Avocats in 2021, he was a partner at RFB Associés where he led the distressed companies practice.

He advises companies, executives, shareholders, investors and creditors on: crisis prevention (ad hoc mandates, conciliation), debt renegotiation, comprehensive restructurings, safeguard and judicial reorganization proceedings.

Notable references: advising major corporations and mid-cap companies on restructurings ranging from €25M to over €300M.

## Expertise
Droit des affaires, Associé, Contentieux

## Professional experience
- Partner — Mac Mahon Avocats (2021 – Present) : Leading financing and restructuring cases.
- Partner — RFB Associés (2014 – 2021) : Leading strategic restructuring cases.
- Associate — Weil Gotshal & Manges (2010 – 2013) : Acquisition financing, syndicated loans, mezzanine debt.
- Associate — Shearman & Sterling LLP (2008 – 2009) : Complex financing practice in an international environment.
- Associate — White & Case (2004 – 2008) : Banking and acquisition financing (LBO).

## Education
- DESS Banking & Financial Law • DEA Business Law — Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
- Master in Management — HEC Paris

## Client references
- SEMATRA / Air Austral : Financial support advisory
- December Digital : Complex multi-tranche financing restructuring
- Services Company (Reunion Island) : Regional leader in its sector
- URCOOPA : Agricultural cooperative group advisory

## Contact
Email : driss.falih@macmahon-avocats.fr
Phone : +33 6 61 88 54 05
LinkedIn : https://fr.linkedin.com/in/driss-falih-8984845b

Available languages : fr, en
Profile verified on 2025-12-31
Last updated : 2026-09-18