We help start-ups and scale-ups navigate the myriad challenges they face – from their earliest stages to their expansion into new markets. As our clients innovate, our team meets the new legal challenges that arise with creative and rigorous solutions that are tailored to their objectives and needs.
Our team advises on critical aspects such as financing rounds, IPOs, mergers and accessing innovation funds. We also have extensive experience in complex litigation in innovative sectors, and regularly advise founders, managers and investment funds on domestic and international transactions, providing our clients the best service and solutions in this demanding and fast-moving environment.
We assist with:
- Company incorporation and restructuring, including shareholders’ agreements and agreements regarding compensation for managers and shareholders
- Early-stage growth strategies: seed rounds raising equity and debt capital, joint ventures, raising public innovation funds, joining technology hubs, shareholders’ agreements and dispute-resolution strategies
- Late-stage growth strategies: advanced or crossover financing rounds, complex shareholders’ agreements and preparing remuneration agreements for management
- Mergers and acquisitions as a growth strategy in mature stages
- IPOs, direct listings and SPAC mergers
- Litigation over a wide range of key disputes, including those related to the company’s technology (ownership, infringement of third-party rights, etc.); contractual claims; IPOs, mergers or other transactions; unfair-competition claims, corporate governance, and more
- Merger analysis and defence in inspection and sanctioning proceedings carried out by the competition authorities
- Strategic advice on intellectual and industrial property matters
- 360º tax advice during business growth and consolidation
- Venture debt
