Corporate law.
Over the years, Franco Baudino e Associati has developed
skills in corporate law and dedicated resources in studying
in depth the new law discipline introduced by the corporate law reforms.
Evidence of this engagement is shown by the many publications on
this subject written by our lawyers who work mainly in this field.
Studying the theory of these innovations, as well as their possible
applications, allows us to use the acquired expertise in finding
the best and most recent solutions available to meet the ever more
complex needs and demands of businessmen, who are forced to work
in a global market where the adoption of the most suitable legal
tools and models is often crucial to be successful.
Our law firm takes into consideration all aspects of corporate law
for Italian and foreign companies, from their incorporation to their
dissolution. In the initial planning stage of the corporate activity,
we advise clients in choosing the most suitable kind of corporate
entity to be established and in writing its bylaws, in order to adopt
the most suitable organization and governance aspects to reflect
the relationships and balance among the parties involved. Special
attention is paid in inheritance planning, for the corporate structure
of family owned businesses, so as to protect and preserve them for
future generations, through the most appropriate shareholder agreements
and any other suitable legal instrument.
In the following stage, relating to the business, we offer advice
to the business partners and management in dealing with shareholders’ meetings,
board of directors’ meetings, and more generally with carrying
out all of the steps necessary to fulfil all of the corporate management
requirements. In this field, the legal assistance and advice given
to directors include analyzing business areas and corporate procedures,
identifying risk areas and setting up the most suitable compliance
programs to meet the corporate administrative requirements as well
as all of the related activities aimed at complying with the above
mentioned programs as well as granting powers to the appointed officers.
Working with the external professional team, we are also able to
advise on extraordinary operations such as conversions, mergers,
division and re-structuring of groups of companies. We advise company
directors and statutory auditors in corporate difficulties or conflict
among shareholders, in order to set up all of the safeguards to protect
the directors and the board of statutory auditors.
We have gained a wide experience representing cases in court concerning
corporate issues governed by the recently issued procedural law.
This is an area in which our lawyers are often called to advise directors
and statutory auditors as well as advising against them in connection
with actions for liability brought by the corporation, shareholders,
or trustees in bankruptcy, also representing shareholders and companies
in contestations against resolutions of shareholders’ and board
of directors’ meetings as well as in precautionary measures.
We have taken advantage of this knowledge to advise public entities
in the process of privatization of state-owned enterprises and consortia.
With respect to this sector of corporate law, our clients are public
entities and state-owned companies operating in the public utilities
sector, for which we handled their conversion to public limited companies.
We advise on the resolutions of the board and shareholders’ meeting
required to achieve privatization as well as complying with the standard
requirements imposed by public cost reduction regulations. |
