Business law
Business law
1 Company law
- Advice on incorporation projects : deciding on the most suitable form of company, director’s social and fiscal status, rules of governance;
- Incorporation : drafting articles of association and completing legal formalities;
- Legal department services : follow-up and formalisation of the annual approval of company accounts, company legal record keeping;
- Assistance with one-off operations : increase or decrease of share capital, change of registered address, closing date, directors and statutory auditors, company form (for example from limited liability company to simplified joint-stock company);
- Assistance with restructuring : structuring study, implementing the restructuring scheme (merger-acquisition, asset transfer, spin-off);
- Corporate development (business acquisition and sale, whether for buyer or seller, LBO): due-diligence, negotiating and drawing up sale protocols, representations and guarantees and shareholders agreements;
- Management equity plans : designing and implementing stock option plans or share purchase schemes for French and international groups (establishing a foreign plan’s acceptability in France) and schemes involving bonus issues, BSPCE enterprise creator share warrants, the issuing of securities (preferred shares, share subscription warrants…);
- Monitoring of legal obligations binding upon listed companies;
2 Commercial law
- Assistance with matters linked to the sale of businesses or leasehold rights : assisting with negotiations, drawing up pre-sale and sale agreements, discharging any pre-emption rights, employee pre-advices, completing all legal and tax formalities;
- Drafting or reviewing commercial lease contracts;
- Drafting of intra-group agreements (management fees, cash pooling, tax consolidation agreements…).