Corporate Law
The Corporate Department is made up of a team of experienced professionals specialized in various areas of corporate law, both legal and tax, fully aware of the importance of an integrated and highly specialized approach to provide and ensure solid, qualified interdisciplinary consulting and a strong international presence.
The experience of our most senior professionals, combined with the enthusiasm of younger colleagues, enables the Corporate Department to handle and manage the most complex issues in the field. Moreover, daily interaction with colleagues from Andersen Global offices around the world allows us to maintain an up-to-date view of international dynamics in many countries.
Finally, when it comes to ESG-related opportunities, the Andersen team provides integrated advice on sustainable innovation, exploring how to combine ethics with business operations within the current regulatory framework.
The cross-disciplinary expertise of Andersen’s Sustainable Innovation Desk makes business operations a conscious expression of responsible organizations, through assessments and measurements of the organization, policies, expected and actual impacts, and stakeholder engagement.
The project is a meeting point between new business models, scientific progress, and a people-centric approach. It promotes economic processes aimed at improving living and working standards through a management model that values each individual’s talent.
Support to Boards and Corporate Bodies
- Advisory Board: support in planning and managing governance procedures
- Assistance, support, and advice to the Board of Directors in decision-making related to extraordinary transactions and capital operations
- Assistance, support, and advice to the Board of Directors, board committees, and shareholders’ meetings in the proper reporting and recording of board and shareholders’ resolutions
- Assistance in establishing board committees and defining governance procedures
- Assistance in the formation and definition of corporate governance structures of holding companies and management of related obligations
- Assistance in defining the corporate governance frameworks of club deals and investment SPVs for institutional investors, private equity funds, and family offices
- Analysis, drafting, and revision of bylaws
- Executive compensation: advice on remuneration procedures and governance of top management compensation
- Company formation
Assistance to family businesses
Assistance to family businesses and families:
- Wealth and succession planning and optimization of corporate and asset structures
- Family governance: organization of family assemblies and family councils
- Definition of corporate governance tools such as trusts and family agreements
Research and analysis of international corporate governance best practices
Corporate Legal Opinions
The Firm provides legal opinions:
- To management bodies
- To control and supervisory bodies
- To various company functions
Main topics:
- Potential liabilities arising from management actions
- Potential liabilities for failing to identify or oppose actions contrary to the duty of care
- Assessment of contractual breaches
- Assessment of the possibility of terminating contracts for excessive onerousness or supervening impossibility of performance
- Assessment of the possibility of renegotiating contractual relationships
Corporate and commercial contract law
The Corporate Department has extensive experience in negotiating and drafting commercial contracts. Main examples include:
- Distribution agreements
- Agency agreements
- Procurement contracts
- Service agreements
- Letters of patronage
- Pledge agreements
- Sureties/first-demand guarantees
Intellectual property
- Protection and management of trademarks and related agreements
- Protection and management of patents and related agreements
- Copyright consulting
- Drafting of software development, transfer, and licensing agreements
- Identification of the best forms of protection for corporate know-how