Expertise

Our expertise and experience allows us to provide our clients with innovative and practical solutions to commercial problems that may arise in planning and executing complex mergers and acquisitions. We have consolidated over time specific sector training and expertise, in-depth industry knowledge as well as a close collaboration with our other specialized practices. We have tailored transactional approaches specific to companies conducting regulated business activities.

Our advice encompasses the entire scope of legal services relevant for merger and acquisition transactions, including:

High-level and multidisciplinary legal due diligence exercises on existing businesses

We specialize in conducting high level and multidisciplinary legal due diligence investigations of target businesses, whether for a proposed acquisition or intended disposal; providing our clients with the expertise of our specialists who create pragmatic and focused findings reports.

Project structuring

We advise our clients in the preparation of complex structures for the establishment, development, trimming for sale, disposal or acquisition of businesses, based on in-depth knowledge of all circumstances that may affect each project.

Implementation of remedial measures (including corporate restructurings)

We advise our clients in the process of implementing a wide range of corporate remedial measures, starting with planning the process, drafting the relevant documents and ending with implementing the measures and monitoring the effects.

Preparation and negotiation of transaction documents

We have extensive experience in drafting and negotiating a wide range of transaction documents in the area of mergers and acquisitions, whether in tender processes or direct negotiations acting both on behalf of the seller and that of the buyer or in the process of establishing joint venture companies.

Finalization of the acquisition, disposal or reorganization and advice on post-acquisition matters

We assist our clients in the process of finalizing the transaction by drafting all the relevant corporate documents and performing corporate and other types of registrations with the relevant public authorities.

Privatization processes

We have been involved in most of the major privatization processes in Romania, both on behalf of strategic investors and of the state entities, advising on the whole range of related services, including assessment of applicable legal framework, legal due diligence analysis, preparation of presentation files and tender documentation, assistance in preparation of the privatization strategy, drafting and negotiation of the contractual framework, fulfillment of conditions precedent and pre-closing and post – privatization aspects, covering regulatory matters, fiscal incentives, state aid aspects and legislative amendments.

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