Practices

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.