Corporate law. Investments. M&A.

• Preparation of documents required for state registration of companies, opening of representative offices and branches of foreign companies.

• Selection of the optimal organizational and legal form of the newly created company, taking into account the assessment of risks associated with the planned economic activity, the structure of partners and the size of assets.

• Assistance in the formation of a corporate governance model, distribution of functions, powers and responsibilities, establishment of corporate control over the enterprise.

• Full legal support for business restructuring, as well as assets of legal entities.

• Legal support for the reorganization of companies in any form prescribed by law, including spin-off, division, takeover, as well as transactions for the alienation and acquisition of business.

• Structuring of transactions aimed at mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

• Consolidation of blocks of shares, management of rights in the interests of the Client.

• Corporate representation, holding annual and extraordinary meetings of participants and shareholders of business entities.

• Organizing, coordinating and conducting internal corporate checks and investigations in relation to alleged violations, drafting legal opinions.

• Development and implementation of a program of legal action in a corporate conflict.

• Protection of rights and representation of interests in corporate conflicts: appeal against the results of meetings of founders and shareholders, division of assets, exclusion of participants, conclusion of major transactions, challenging rights to shares and shares in the authorized capital.

• Advocate protection in case of raiding and hostile takeovers.

• Development of an option program for key employees of the company.

• Legal audit of the existing option program for the company’s employees in order to eliminate the main risks and preparation of recommendations to improve the terms of the program.