Mercantile law

Specialists in Mercantile law services, which includes the following:

• Company Law
  • Constitution of companies, not-for-profit organisations (foundations, associations…), entities of any type (cooperatives, economic interest groups, joint ventures…) and group structures.
  • Preparation and modification of Articles of Association and regulations of administrative governing bodies.
  • Partnership and syndication agreements.
  • Corporate operations: increases and decreases in capital, transformations of companies, separation and exclusion of partners…
  • Dissolution and liquidation of companies and other entities.
  • Legal adviser and Secretary of Boards of Directors and other decision-making bodies.
  • Advice in the management of all types of corporate documentation: Book of minutes, shareholder register, book of partners…
  • Drafting and development of all types of documents: agenda, calls, minutes, certifications, announcements, minutes for the elaboration of public deeds…
  • Advice to partners and administrators regarding rights, obligations and responsibilities of a preventive nature or in situations of corporate conflict.
• Business restructuring and structural modification operations:
  • Mergers, demergers, segregations, contributions from branches of activity, redemption of securities…
• Legal Due Diligence (legal audit).
• Corporate Compliance.
  • Risk analysis, design and preparation of criminal risk prevention manuals.
  • Legal advice on the implementation of criminal risk prevention manuals.
  • Participation in control and supervision bodies.
• Family Business. Business succession and family protocols.
  • Advice on succession and generational change processes.
  • Design and implementation of family protocols.
  • Adaptation of Articles of Association to succession plans and family protocols.
  • Constitution of holding companies.
  • Restructuring of family assets. Safeguarding the personal family assets of the entrepreneur.
  • Advice on the execution of wills and marriage contracts for members of the business family.
  • Advice on marital situations of crisis for members of the business family.
  • Commercial, civil and tax advice on allocation processes and distribution of estates for members of the business family.
• Commercial contracts. Advice on drafting, reviewing and, possibly, negotiating typical commercial contracts in the activity of the company.
  • General terms and conditions of contracts.
  • Trading contracts: provision of services, collaboration, joint ventures…
  • Commercial contracts: distribution agreements, agency agreements, supply agreements, franchise agreements…
  • Banking and financial contracts: cash pooling, syndicated transactions, equity loans…
  • Guarantee agreements: guarantees and sureties, real and chattel mortgages, pledges…
  • International contracts.
• Elaboration of legal reports on specific commercial issues.
• Pre-litigation and pre-insolvency advice.