Contacts
General corporate law
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- Advice on the different aspects of corporate law
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- Advice regarding the suitable legal form and assistance with the incorporation of companies and related administrative obligations
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- Establishment of more specific legal forms (Partnership, temporary trade association, etc.)
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- Liability of directors, liquidators and auditors
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- Shareholders’ rights and obligations
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- Advice and mediation with regard to shareholders’ conflicts
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- Corporate Governance
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- Conflict of interests
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- Financial assistance – purchase of own shares
Corporate housekeeping
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- Preparations for the organisation of (extraordinary) shareholders’ meeting, boards of directors and other corporate bodies
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- Drawing up different meeting documents and assisting with obligations regarding corporate documents (minutes shareholders meeting, meetings of governing bodies, special reports, shareholder ledgers, etc.)
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- Follow up of all administrative obligations which may derive from decisions of the various corporate bodies
Legal audit and sanity check
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- Screening of the legal ‘health’ of a corporation whereby on the basis of a limited audit it is assessed whether or not the corporation fails in its legal obligations and the risks that this entails
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- Vendor due diligence in preparation of a sale of the company or any other transaction
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- Buyer due diligence
Dispute settlement
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- Company law related procedures and dispute settlements
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- Assistance and mediation in case of disputes between shareholders and directors (mediation, squeeze out procedures, etc.)
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- Minority claims
Restructurings
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- (cross-border) reorganisations of corporations and groups of corporations ((cross-border mergers and (partial) demergers, transfers/contributions of branches and generalities, transformations, etc.)
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- Assistance with special transactions (increases in capital, modification of the corporate purpose,…)
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- Advice in case of financial difficulties (protection against creditors, judicial reorganisations, etc.)
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- Dissolution and liquidation of companies
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- Bankruptcy (declaration, contacts with the curator,…)
Acquisitions
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- Assistance with transfer of shares and business
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- Assistance with the preparation of the sale of the company
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- Due diligence (vendor and buyer, drafting data room rules, confidentiality agreements, etc.)
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- Drafting and negotiation of different agreements (letter of intent, confidentiality agreements, etc.) and documents related to an acquisition
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- Assistance with post-acquisition integration
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- Assistance with collaboration agreements (joint ventures, shareholders agreements, etc.)
Assistance of Start-ups
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- Assistance of start-ups, starting from the beginning of the activities, through the extension of the structure to the accession of third parties or the transfer of the company
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- Advice with relation to the suitable legal form or the establishment of a one-man business
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- Assistance with the incorporation of a company and/or the start up of the activity
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- Assistance with the administrative formalities with relation to the start up of the activities
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Associations, foundations and non-profit organisations
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- Assistance with the choice of structure for the start up and development of the non-profit/social activities and this for both national and international associations
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- Assistance with the incorporation of associations and foundations, and all related obligations
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- Assistance with the acceptance of donations and legacies and fulfilling the related administrative formalities
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- Assistance with the fulfillments of different obligations (submitting membership lists, submitting the annual accounts, publications, etc.)
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- Liability of directors and auditors
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- Modifications of the by-laws
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- Mergers and acquisitions
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- Dissolution and liquidation of associations and foundations