COMPANY/CORPORATE LAW
Our professionals have a unique litigation experience in arising corporate conflicts – claims and specialise in various aspects of corporate law, consulting about the mechanisms, processes and relations by which corporations are controlled and directed and in relation to the governance structures and principles which identify the distribution of rights and responsibilities among different participants in the corporation (such as the board of directors, managers, shareholders, creditors, auditors, regulators, and other stakeholders) and the rules and procedures for making decisions in corporate affairs. In specific our services in the area of corporate law include:
- formation, acquisition and dissolution of Greek and foreign corporations, legal entities & subsidiaries (personal companies, sole traders, general partnerships, limited partnerships, capital-based entities, public companies limited by shares, limited liability companies, private capital companies, joint ventures);
- due diligence services and reports;
- articles of association drafting and amendment of articles, company’s capacity and related matters, exercise of members’ rights, duties of directors and liabilities, minutes of directors’ meetings & resolutions, claims and proceedings by members, shares and share capital issues of a company, distributions, shareholder remedies, transfer and transmission of shares, transparency obligations and related matters, dissolution and property of dissolved company;
- claims arising out of personal liability for debts of company, lifting the corporate veil actions and proceedings;
- bankruptcy – insolvency, corporate reorganization and reconstruction, orders of distribution of assets, pre-bankruptcy procedures for the reorganization of the debtor’s business and its continuation following an agreement with the majority of its creditors, rescue and insolvency procedures under the Greek Bankruptcy Code (Law 4738/2020), such as Rehabilitation process, post-bankruptcy reorganization process and post-bankruptcy liquidation process and proceedings for the repayment of creditors before the relevant Courts;
- investment agreements, shareholder agreements, memoranda of understanding, joint venture contracts and corporate governance issues;
- takeovers & mergers (horizontal, vertical, conglomeration) and acquisitions at all stages of consolidation process;
- legal issues arising in capital-raising transactions;
- multinational and transnational companies & group of companies;
- management buy-outs and earn-outs;