GENERAL CORPORATE

Our corporate practice complements our M&A
abilities as well as the requirements of other
practices in providing specialised legal advice on
corporate matters. Highlights of our lawyers'
experience gained from previous engagements
include:

• Shareholders’ agreements: assisting
  private equity funds or significant real estate
  developers in preparing and negotiating
  shareholders agreements with the co-investors or
  assisting the investors in negotiating shareholders’
  agreements governing the relationships and exit
  routes following privatisation deals or public-private partnerships.
• Group restructurings at a national and international level such as the merger of two of the
  main players in the steel industry, restructuring
  and demerger of various companies active in the
  construction field in view of a better operational
  organisation and divesture of businesses.
• Structuring and securing effective corporate
  governance structures such as structuring the
  business of a major pharma distributor or of a
  telecom company in view of international IPOs or
  implementing customised management
  structures as to render effective joint control
  schemes or address post-privatisation
  requirements.

Other highlights include structuring and
implementing exit routes for private equity funds,
other minority or financial investors, designing
employee compensation schemes, setting up structures
for avoidance of financial assistance, ensuring
compliance by public companies with listing rules,
disclosure obligations and special approvals or
structuring of different classes of shares.