/ Assistance in the application of company law; designing and start-up of business and management of daily operations.

/ Contracts for the purchase and sale of equity investments and businesses.

/ Setting up and restructuring of companies and corporate groups; drafting and negotiation of shareholders' agreements; management of relationships between majority and minority shareholders.

/ Corporate transactions such as mergers, demergers and reorganizations, leveraged buy-outs and management buy-outs; company procedures (preparation of activity agendas, reports to corporate bodies, memoranda for shareholders); rights of minority shareholders; rules and regulations that apply to corporate transactions.

/ Contracts and opinions concerning commercial transactions; supply, distribution, franchising, agency, lease, and licensing (including trademarks and patents) agreements.

/ Preparation of business plans; due diligences; business appraisals and valuations.

/ Assistance in insolvency proceedings: bankruptcy, arrangement with creditors, extraordinary administration, administrative compulsory liquidation.

/ Restructuring and debt consolidation.

/ Reorganization of companies in financial difficulty.

/ Support to customers in taking over businesses or assets from insolvency proceedings and enforcement actions.

/ Assistance to securities issuers and underwriters, investors, lenders, borrowers and guarantors in relation to all legal aspects related to various types of financing transactions.

/ Assistance in the negotiation of credit facilities and medium and long term loans, in the granting of collateral (pledges and mortgages), bank guarantees, free-standing guarantees

/ Assignment of receivables as collateral or to fulfil obligations.

/ Finance leases of assets (leasing).

/ Assistance and advice regarding taxation of companies and of domestic and transnational corporate groups; tax planning of M&A and corporate restructuring transactions; analysis and application of domestic and international rulings.

/ Assistance to customers in their relations with the Tax Authority for the application of measures designed to reduce litigation; representation and defence before the tax commissions of all instances and the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.

/ Companies indirect taxation: value added tax, registration tax, mortgage and cadastral taxes related to the transactions described above.

/ Direct taxation of natural persons and legal entities; tax return obligations and intercommunication services with the Tax Authority.

/ Taxation of financial income, tax planning in the succession of assets.