Group reorganisations
The team can advise on any corporate aspects of multi-national group reorganisations including, but not limited to:
- Intra-group share sales, or business and asset sales
- Mergers and de-mergers
- Group simplifications including strike-offs
- Inter-company loans, facility agreements, loan notes or other methods of group financing
- Maintenance of capital issues including reductions of capital (both private company supported by a solvency statement and Court approved), share buy backs (out of distributable profits, proceeds of a fresh issue of shares or capital) and redemptions of share capital
- Financial assistance
- Transactions at an undervalue
- Dividends and distributions (whether in cash or in specie), including disguised distributions corporate benefit, directors' duties and insolvency implications of transactions
- Redenominations of share capital
- Drafting all types of share rights
Transactions regularly include not only companies (private and public, and limited by shares or guarantee and unlimited) but partnerships, limited partnerships and limited liability partnerships.
The team also regularly project manages multi-jurisdictional transactions and co-ordinates the legal advice to be received from and provided by advisers in other European and worldwide jurisdictions.
In addition, the team has considerable expertise in advising on and undertaking European cross-border mergers and advising on Societas Europeas (SEs).