Our expertise
- Corporate Law
We ensure client support in all aspects of running a business, including business formation, corporate governance, establishing branches and representative offices, drafting and advising on corporate by-laws, obtaining licenses, permits and authorisations, advising on capital restructuring, sale of shares and capital increases.
Our team assists clients in navigating multipart M&A transactions from acquisition due diligence and transaction structuring to drafting related documentation, and following through closing and post-closing issues.
- Commercial Law
We cover most areas of the commercial law including general commercial contracts, distribution, supply, leasing, acquisition or sale of equipment or real estate.
- Employment
We provide tailored advice and personal attention on labour law cases, including employment contracts, employment termination, personnel lay-off and restructuring, work permits, labour conflicts.
- Finance, Banking & Regulatory
- General Lending and Transactional Services
We represent both lenders and borrowers in commercial lending transactions including inter-company loans, cross border and domestic loan transactions, including advising on LMA based documentation and related security.
We can assist with day-to day advisory activity for both corporate and consumer business of financial institutions. We have insight on the full range of banking operations, achieved during years of experience as in house counsels or during long term secondments with banks.
Our expertise include foreign exchange regulations, local and cross-border funds transfers, various payment mechanisms, letters of guarantees, letters of credit, treasury and money market transactions, custodial services, escrow structures and outsourcing issues. We have detailed knowledge of consumer protection regulations including unfair commercial practices, advertising rules, abusive contractual clauses, consumer lending rules, bancassurance products.
- Structured Products: Our team has wide experience in structuring asset-based lending, advising on leasing transactions, trade finance, real estate finance, project finance, factoring transactions.
- Corporate Finance: We support clients to maximize their shareholding value by assisting and advising them on debt and equity financing including bi-lateral and syndicated loan, bonds financing and securitization.
- Regulatory and Compliance: We have extensive expertise in compliance and regulatory issues, providing a risk-based approach advice to banks and other financial institutions on the often intricate regulatory environment, including anti-money laundering and prevention of terrorism financing, insider dealing and market abuse issues, consumer transparency and consumer protection, personal data protection, bancassurance, consumer credit, conflicts of interest. Our expert partners hold strong knowledge of local regulatory framework as well as an in depth understanding of the US and UK bank regulatory environment. We have a track record in designing and implementing compliance programs for banks.
5 . Restructuring and insolvency
We deliver focused, efficient advice on corporate debt restructuring and insolvency matters, sustaining clients to achieve satisfactory solutions to their debt restructuring and insolvency issues in the nowadays challenging market environments.