Corporate Law. Mergers and Acquisitions

Corporate practice is one of the key activities of Verkhovodko & Partners law firm.

In our work we use our knowledge of hundreds of nuances in the sphere of corporate relations, which have to be taken into consideration during establishment of legal entities, their mergers and acquisitions, as well as during the process of their activity.

The firm provides a full range of legal services to support the establishment of new legal entities of all organizational forms on a turnkey basis, mergers and acquisitions (including in various jurisdictions), their reorganization, alienation or liquidation. Our lawyers will professionally consider all the wishes of the client concerning the formation of the shared capital by means of monetary, property and non-property contributions, ensuring of the rights of the founders, competence of the managing bodies, labor relations and many other aspects.

We provide a wide range of services to organizations in the course of their activities. Our lawyers have given thousands of consultations to its clients over many years of work and have prepared a great number of legal documents (contracts, internal local acts of organizations, etc.).

The firm has also successfully provided consulting and other services, in particular, in creation of corporate structures, changes in the structure of company's shareholders, holding general meetings of shareholders, resolution of disputes of founders, etc.

Owing to our legal support our clients have an opportunity to optimize substantially the manageability of their companies, structure them for the purpose of selling them, attracting investments and loans, minimize various risks.
Verkhovodko & Partners law firm has a unique experience of participation in the resolution of corporate conflicts through negotiations, mediation, etc., representation of clients' interests in courts when considering disputes of founders (shareholders).

We offer the following services:

• advising on a wide variety of corporate issues in different spheres;
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  Legal support of establishment, reorganization, liquidation of legal entities, including organizations with foreign capital, holdings, associations, etc.;
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  legal support of mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, including those in different jurisdictions, including legal due diligence, taking into account national peculiarities of antitrust and competition regulation, taxation, currency regulation and currency control
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  development and legal support of corporate agreements of the founders (participants, shareholders, partners) on the organization and conduct of business, creation and transformation of corporate structures, preparation and support of transactions with stocks (shares, assets, property), option agreements
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  legal support of the organization, conduct and registration of meetings of the management bodies of legal entities, changes in the shared capital and constituent documents, the organization and operation of corporate governance
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  legal support of corporate restructuring of groups of companies for the purpose of economic and tax optimization, access to public markets
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  building a strategy and tactics of combating corporate raids;
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  assistance in negotiations, resolution of corporate conflicts and court disputes.