International corporate tax

• Optimizing the tax treatment of acquisitions and group operations.
• International structures and financing VAT, customs and indirect taxation.
• Transfer pricing.

Intellectual property – Information technologies

Intellectual and Industrial Property (“IP”)

• Advice and registration assistance of trademarks, designs, models and patent, software codes.
• License agreements, technology transfer agreements.
• IP Rights infringement assistance.

Information and Communication Technology

• Helping Startups and Established ICT Businesses with all their legal needs from set up to ongoing, funding and investing.
• Regulatory compliance.
• Privacy law: privacy and data protection policies, compliance, GDPR, DPO mission.
• Drafting and negotiating complex IT Developmentcontracts
• Advising in the creation and maintenance of websites
• Protecting and licensing copyrighted content on the Internet
• Counseling on issues such as privacy, defamation, electronic commerce

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Assistance with negotiations..
• Legal and tax due diligence reviews, preparation of data rooms.
• Contract law: letters of intent, non disclosure agreements, acquisition agreements.
• National and international taxation.
• Antitrust law aspects.
• Employment law aspects.
• Corporate law aspects.

Banking and Finance

• Relations with supervisory authorities.
• Strategic alliances in the finance sector.
• Refinancing and risk-transfer operations.
• Financing (corporate, project, intra-group).
• Setting up regulated structures.
• Collective investment products.

Corporate law

• Determining and setting up appropriate legal structures.
• Foreign investment licensing, company incorporation, private equity.
• Identifying and setting up State aid and project financing solutions.
• Restructuring operations, mergers, divisions, acquisitions, share transfers, liquidation.
• Business transfers.
• Capital transactions, issuance of securities.
• Corporate governance structures, regulatory compliance
• Corporate secretarial services
• Managing intra-group relations
• Corporate officer compensation and liability
• Company domiciliation, business center services

Real estate

• Leases.
• Construction – Development.
• Environment.
• Valuations.
• Ownership / Co-ownership.
• Town Planning:
  • Assistance on real estate transactions in connection with industrial or isolated investments,
  • Comprehensive assistance in real estate development projects.

Human capital

• International mobility (International Executive Services): expatriation and repatriation.
• Executive compensation.
• Labour law / Employment law: advising on, and managing collective and individual labor relations and disputes, managing the labour aspects of national and international restructuring operations.

Civil law Wealth management Executives personal assets

• Civil law: international marriages, international divorces, adoption.
• Marital property systems, assistance to surviving spouse.
• Successions, donations, inter vivos estate distribution, hand to hand gifts.
• Management of real estate assets, Business transfer.
• Executives’ personal assets, personal income tax.

Competition Distribution Franchising

(pharmaceuticals, perfumes & cosmetics, luxury products, retail, etc.)

• Negotiating with manufacturers/suppliers/distributors/franchisors or franchisees
• Serving as liaison
• Project implementation
• Consumer law

Project management & International contracts: Turnkey solution

• Business center services, company administration and domiciliation, translation of official documents, visa & work permit application
• Administrative assistance to identification of targets, recruitment & HR, bank account opening, insurance policy
• Legal and contractual set-up of your trade, services (IT, NTIC, design, consultancy) and industrial projects (pharmaceutical, agrifood, textile, furniture, equipment etc.)
• Preliminary study to assess the feasibility of your project and structuring of the funding
• Strategic assistance and regulatory analysis to define the best legal structuring for your project including innovative structures
• Assistance in negociations with local partner(s), provider(s), lessor, Governement and State institutions
• Product registration, advertising and promotion regulatory compliance, trademark advice and registration
• Investment and business Licensing; shareholder and joint venture agreements
• Development of projects related in particular to real estate and the tourism industry (developing and operating hotels, leisure activities and travel agencies)
• Design, drafting and negotiation of complex contracts
• Mediation, pre-litigation and litigation related to your international operations
• Tenders, Public Procurement, International biddings (Public Private Partnerships, Build Operate Transfer)