Corporate restructuring

Our corporate restructuring practice involves the following areas, both domestically and internationally:

• Sale and acquisition transactions involving shares, assets, entire businesses and business lines;
• (Cross-border) mergers, (partial) divisions and transfers of businesses and branches of activity;
• Share buy-back schemes;
• Capital increases and reductions;
• Equity & dividend-stripping advice and implementation;
• Simplification of group structures and single-entity projects;
• Establishing branches; converting them into subsidiaries and vice versa;
• Company liquidations;
• International migration of companies;
• Advising on corporate governance models and issues (e.g. setting up executive and daily management committees; directors' liability);
• General corporate legal advice and compliance.

Many of such transactions form intra-group projects arising in the context of M&A (e.g. a pre-sale reorganisation, a post-acquisition consolidation), intra-group (re)financing or business transformation schemes. Our broad range of legal services in this domain are dovetailed with our Tax, Finance and HR colleagues, to offer a full, efficient "one-stop shop" solution.

The tax structures we propose are analysed in terms of their legal feasibility, and are implemented with consideration for specific tax objectives and sensitivities. Because our Legal corporate structuring team works closely with PwC’s international Legal Services network, domestic and cross-border transactions can often be implemented within strict deadlines.