PRACTICES > Corporate Law; Mergers & Acquisitions

Arco-legal assists French companies, subsidiaries of foreign corporations and their company directors with corporate law issues such as transactional, governance, and compliance matters. Overall Arco-legal assists its clients with their development or restructuration challenges.

For instance Arco-legal provides assistance in :

 • starting-up (choice of legal form, incorporation, choice of directors' status…),

 • organizing the balance of power within the company and the relations between shareholders
    (Board composition and election contests, governance setup, Shareholder proposals and agreements…),

 • providing corporate practice (legal corporate secretariat),

 • managing capital and stockholders' equity movements
    (capital increase, issuance of complex securities, employee share ownership…),

 • managing external growth, corporate reorganizations or partnership setup,

 • carrying out due diligences,

 • drafting and negotiating of the documentation related to the sale or acquisition of stocks/assets, mergers, splits, spinoffs,
    partial business/asset transfers or joint-ventures,

 • preventing, assessing and dealing with their legal issues

Arco-legal assists its clients in pre-contentious issues as well as in litigation in matters such as stockholder conflicts, protection of minority stockholders, asset and liability guarantee disagreements, and criminal business/ corporate law.