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Our company has a group of skilled individuals who specialise in corporate and business law, regulatory compliance, contracts, restructuring, and navigating through challenging business scenarios. We provide thorough and all-encompassing guidance to our clients, enabling them to make informed decisions that optimise the efficiency of their business operations.
We prioritise our active participation when planning these initiatives, placing great importance on being readily accessible and close to our clients. We aim to offer consistent, effective, and meticulous guidance on matters as they arise, ensuring that our professionals seamlessly integrate into their business teams.
Our areas of specialisation cover, among others, the following subjects:
Corporate and Contractual Law
The dynamic and evolving regulations governing business operations in the market necessitate the presence of strong, expert, specialised, and ongoing legal guidance. This ensures that entrepreneurs comply with the law and fulfil their responsibilities as corporate administrators.
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Our team aims to become an additional facet of our clients’ business, assisting in making informed decisions on various subjects, including but not limited to the following:
- Create companies and branches, joint ventures (UTE) and economic interest groups (IEA), and make all kinds of amendments to the articles of association.
- Advice on regulatory compliance and new developments, including assistance regarding potential options within the applicable legal framework.
- Preparation and advice to corporate governance bodies (General Meeting and Administrative Body), drafting and executing the relevant documents.
- Secretarial functions on Boards of Directors. Corporate lawyer. Preparing and keeping minutes and other mandatory documents (minute book, shareholder book, corporate books with sole proprietor).
- Structuring and execution of funding rounds (at all stages: seed and growth capital).
- Drafting of shareholders’ agreements, family covenants and associated agreements.
- Advice on disputes between partners and directors, challenges to corporate agreements, and liability claims for infringement of the fiduciary duties of management bodies.
- Data protection and privacy: Advice on the implementation of the Data Protection regulations in compliance with the new European Data Protection Regulation, as well as the implementation of protocols for compliance with the Data Protection regulations.
- Advice, drafting, review and negotiation in all kinds of commercial contracts (distribution, franchises, agency, sale, leasing, financing, escrow, guarantee, technology, outsourcing, use licences and IT services, etc.).
- Legal advice on regulatory compliance for websites: LOPD, LSSI, LISI, electronic contracts, consumers, unfair contract terms, accessibility, etc.
- Drafting General Terms of Sale, privacy and cookies policy, returns policies, etc.
- Assistance internationalisation of the company through our global network of ETL offices.
CIVIL AND REAL ESTATE LAW
We have lawyers who specialise in civil law (wills, succession agreements, inheritances, etc.) and real estate transactions, including the acquisition and sale of real estate and other types of property, such as leasing, real estate leasing, and leaseback.
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We have extensive experience advising on inheritance processes, transfers of real estate assets and asset management. Our main areas of action are the following:
- Wills, succession covenants, inheritances, acceptances of inheritance in wills and intestate rules.
- Purchase and sale of real estate (housing, business premises and buildings), whether intended for residential or commercial purposes (mainly hotels); analysis and advice in the preliminary review and drafting agreements and contracts (purchase option; confirmatory deposit contracts, criminal and penitential, etc.)
- Urban, business and industrial leases; old rentals and advice to both owners and tenants throughout the contractual relationship (updates, works, rent limits).
- Asset holding companies and condominiums (creation, dissolution, etc.)
- Horizontal property (division, advice on regulations, statutory amendments)
Due Diligence and Identification of Risk
Our professionals have extensive experience in
Our professionals have extensive experience in due diligence processes and risk investigation, both in M&A operations and for companies that, in compliance with the duty of diligence, require an in-depth analysis of their situation. We guide both buyers by conducting pre-acquisition reviews and sellers who require support gathering and processing all the information during the preparation and execution of the following processes.
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- Tax audit.
- Legal audit.
- Contentious proceedings audit.
- Data protection audit.
RESTRUCTURING AND M&A OPERATIONS (BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS)
We have extensive experience advising in the reorganisation processes of business groups in order to address the new challenges of your business development.
Our team is highly specialised and experienced in this type of operation, having participated in numerous operations of all kinds. The firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions Department is staffed by a multidisciplinary team that takes the best approach to each operation, proposing the most appropriate formula for each operation regardless of the degree of complexity.
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Our main areas of action are the following:
- Mergers, divisions, transformations, stock exchange transactions, non-monetary business contributions and all types of commercial restructuring operations.
- Purchases and sales of companies and businesses in general (sales of shares and assets).
- Business group restructuring.
- Strategy and investment formulas in business.
- Business divestment methods.
- Creation and establishment of investment vehicles.
- Coordinate with the tax team to conduct a comprehensive tax analysis of this type of operation and the application of the special tax regime.
- Coordinate with the Labour team to analyse the implications in the workplace.
- Financial and asset analysis of operations.
- Reduction of partners’ income tax burden.
BUSINESS CRISIS SITUATIONS
We guide entrepreneurs and their managers in assessing their economic and financial position to determine the most effective actions to take in the event of an anticipated, impending, or ongoing insolvency situation. We aim to carefully strategise the optimal bankruptcy or pre-bankruptcy scenario for each case, devising a restructuring plan to overcome insolvency or efficiently liquidate assets by selling productive units or implementing well-designed liquidation plans.
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Restructuring
We have vast expertise in guiding entrepreneurs who are impacted by a potential economic crisis within the company. Among others, our scope of action covers the following matters related to corporate restructuring, particularly through pre-insolvency instruments.
- Debt refinancing and restructuring plans.
- Notification of the opening of negotiations with creditors and preparation of the restructuring file.
- We provide advice throughout the pre-bankruptcy phase, both to debtors themselves and to creditors.
- Negotiations with banks, other financial institutions, and funds.
- Stand-still agreements and “bridge loans”.
- Structuring guarantee packages.
- Acquisition of assets and debt from struggling companies (productive units).
- Debt capitalisation.
- Procedure for approving restructuring plans.
- Procedure for judicial approval of restructuring plans.
- Challenges to restructuring plans.
Insolvency proceedings
- Application and guidance at the venue of the insolvency proceedings.
- Directors’ liability.
- Preparation of the creditors’ agreement.
- Bankruptcy administration.
- Labour regulation files.
- Advice during the liquidation phase.
- Advice during the qualification phase in bankruptcy.
- Structuring investments in bankruptcy assets and liabilities (productive units).
- Bankruptcies without assets or with insufficient assets.
- Special procedure for micro-enterprises.
- Second opportunity law for individual entrepreneurs and consumer debtors.
Credit protection
- Challenge and recognition of claims.
- Defence of creditors’ rights.
- Enforcement of guarantees.
- Bankruptcy incidents.
- Attendance and assistance in the qualification phase.
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