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The challenges
We provide assistance to companies and their directors at every stage of their deals: creation, development, transfer. Our expertise, understanding of our clients’ business and experience enable us to propose adapted solutions based on a combination of business law and taxation considerations. We aim to:
- Help directors make strategic decisions
- A ssess the business implications of the transactions we advise on
- Provide clients with effective and constructive assistance throughout the structuring and negotiation of transactions
- Ensure that deals are technically watertight in a pragmatic manner.
Our practice areas
Business creation:
- Choosing adapted structures
- Forming companies
- Arranging joint ventures and shareholder relations (shareholders’ agreements).
Business development:
- Deal structuring, legal engineering, financial structuring, equity deals, investor relations
- Sales and acquisitions: negotiations, due diligence, agreements
- Legal structuring: mergers, spin-offs, partial mergers
- Managing crisis situations, shareholder disputes
- Assisting companies facing financial difficulties insolvency and bankruptcy
- Stock exchange law.
Business transfer:
- Asset structuring
- Real estate investment strategy.
Our approach
We offer clients tailored services based on our understanding of the company’s specific situation. We provide adapted solutions which are designed based on clients’ needs. The high stability and low turnover of our teams enables us to develop a thorough understanding of companies and their history.
Moreover, we closely monitor legal developments. As a result, we are able to propose solutions to our clients which make the most of new opportunities. Finally, our clients benefit from the firm’s wide-ranging expertise in all areas of business law.
Our clients
Listed and unlisted companies in all business sectors.
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Corporate/M&A Insights
Local market knowledge. Global outlook
We provide future-facing legal advice to help your organisation thrive. Combining local market knowledge and a global perspective, and with lawyers in locations worldwide, your organisation benefits from the expertise it needs, even across borders.
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