(1) CORPORATE – COMMERCIAL & BUSINESS LAW
Assisting the Clients through all stages of their transactions and handling all aspects of complex domestic and cross-border corporate operations, also partnering with local experienced colleagues for:

• Setting up Companies (including Innovative Startups) for doing business worldwide
• Corporate Governance, directors’ duties & shareholder issues
• Private Equity, Due Diligence and Closing
• Shareholders’ agreements and Joint ventures
• Drafting and negotiating day-by day contracts (including but not limited to distribution agreements, agency, leases, sales contracts, services contracts, franchising, licensing arrangements & financing contracts)
• Put & Call options
• Escrow Agreements
• Bank debt, convertible notes & other debt financing or borrowings
• Lending money or extending credit
• Contract Review and ‘legal sign off’ of business documents

 

(2) LITIGATION, ARBITRATION AND ADR (ALTERNATIVE DISPUTES RESOLUTION)
Giving legal advice and assistance in commercial disputes arise from (for example but not limited to):
• Debts due and payable
• Breach of contracts that Private or Companies may have entered into
• Negligence and clients’ claim
• Goods or Services
• Misleading and deceptive conduct
• Bankruptcy proceedings
• Sale of businesses
• Employment & Labor issues
• Building (Real Estate)
• Restraints of trade
• Theft of Intellectual property and confidential information
• Shareholder oppression claims

 

(3) CRISIS LAW & STRATEGY GROUP
Combining rapid response during the first critical hours and days of a crisis with strategic guidance to mitigate long-term legal, business, commercial and institutional relations impacts for example in:
• Environmental disasters and pandemics (COVID-19 included)
• Product recalls and foodborne illnesses
• Mass torts
• Data security breaches
• Transport incidents
• Disputes between Shareholders and/or Directors and/or Employees and/or Clients and/or alleged compliance or governance failures.

Assistance in Crisis and Insolvency proceedings: bankruptcy law is often and widely modified in order to provide for more modern and flexible proceedings through anticipated and contractual proceedings for the solution of crisis or insolvency of a firm or of an individual debtor, also consumer.