Square Legal offers a leading expertise in Corporate law, Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity. The law firm assists its French and foreign clients, industrial and service companies, investment funds, shareholders and managers, at all stages of their growth or strategic reorientation.

SPECIFIC SKILLS:

Corporate law

Square Legal offers day-to-day assistance with legal monitoring of corporate life and transactions, as well as specialized legal advice for major structural operations:

• Incorporation of companies: study and choice of the corporate form, status of officers, amount and composition of the share capital, place and powers of the shareholders, achievement of the legal formalities.
• Standard corporate secretarial services (annual approval of financial statements, operations on the share capital, changes in the corporate form, the corporate office or the companies’ officers).
• Legal engineering and advice on corporate transactions and restructurings (mergers, contributions, spin-offs, winding-up with or without liquidation).
• Issues of complex securities (in particular as part of corporate finance transactions with complex financial instruments) and the implementation of profit-sharing and incentive mechanisms for employees, managers and corporate officers.
• Company and group agreements, in particular the structuring and implementation of intragroup agreements, shareholders’ agreements, cooperation agreements and joint ventures.

Mergers and acquisitions

Square Legal assists its acquiring or selling clients in their growth or transmission operations, at all stages of the file, including:

• Structuring of acquisitions, mergers, contributions or transfers of companies, businesses or assets.
• Organization of data rooms and legal due diligence with risk analysis.
• Drafting and negotiation of pre-contractual documentation (non-disclosure agreements, letters of intent, offers, MOU).
• Drafting and negotiation of contractual documentation (purchase agreements, representations and warranties, net worth guarantees, shareholders’ agreements, financing contracts).

Private equity

Square Legal assists its clients in minority or majority equity operations. This includes, in particular, the drafting and negotiation of the following documentation:

• Non-disclosure agreements.
• Letters of intent.
• Investment protocols / purchase agreements.
• Shareholders’ agreements.
• Net worth guarantees.
• Setting up of management package.