Mergers, acquisitions, and joint
venture agreements.
We advise our Italian and foreign clients in mergers
and acquisitions, purchase of businesses or shareholdings, both in
Italy and abroad. Advice in this field is provided by a full team
of professionals with the specific skills needed (tax consultants,
employment law consultants, engineers) covering all the operations
involved, including the initial phase activities of due diligence
as well as those to assure compatibility with antitrust national
and international regulations, and the drafting and negotiation of
the preliminary and final agreements. We also have a well-established
experience in joint venture agreements involving Italian and foreign
entities operating both in the industrial and commercial sectors.
The complexity of M & A and joint venture operations and of the
different steps involved require constant engagement by a group of
dedicated professionals able to work in close collaboration in a
highly interdisciplinary environment. This is why our firm has created
a well tested network of professionals who are able to provide assistance
in all relevant fields: from the planning of the operation (the correct
set up of the corporate, financial, tax and administrative aspects
are particularly important) to the following steps dealing with the
drafting of the agreements aimed at regulating the joint venture
and its dissolution.
When dealing in foreign operations, the vast network of preferential
partners and correspondent lawyers allows the firm to have quick
access to all the information necessary to set up the operation successfully,
while also relying on the aid of the local professionals chosen according
to the legal system where the joint venture has to be set up.
This
assistance includes drafting all of the agreements relating to the
operation (financing, management, transfer of know-how etc.) as well
as taking all of the necessary precautions to ensure the stability
and effective independence of the joint venture business by signing
the shareholder agreements and drafting the special clauses included
to solve conflicts and avoid deadlock situations. |
