Corporate

Helping you to navigate the complexities of global structuring

In a fast-changing global marketplace, structural and business flexibility has become a competitive necessity for large organisations. Any business undertaking any structuring change, for whatever reason, must be alert to the legal risks involved in that change and the legal tools and solutions available to address them. 

Multinational and local reorganisations are frequently required to streamline or eliminate entities, businesses or intercompany arrangements, as well as to achieve improved business alignment.

How we can help

Our team can help you to navigate the complexities of global and local reorganisations and implement significant corporate transformation projects, working together with tax, accounting, and other business consultants, as well as project managers and technologists as one seamless team. 

We bring: 

• Lessons learned from some of the largest corporate restructuring projects delivered in Cyprus for local and international groups
  
• Centrally coordinated local expertise in more jurisdictions than any other law firm can offer, through our global legal network of 3.700 lawyers in 100 countries
  
• Technology solutions and tools to improve efficiency and rigour, measure our performance and allow you access to information in real time. Our tools ensure projects are managed more effectively, and information is provided in an interactive, user-friendly way
  
• Our core services include the following: 
  
• Pre-deal separations and carve outs
  
• Post-deal integrations
  
• Corporate simplification and business transformation projects, including multi-party and multi-layer mergers, both upstream and downstream (reverse)
  
• Cross-border arrangements, including cross-border mergers, inbound and outbound re-domiciliations, cross-border conversions, SE formation and legal seat transfers
  
• Cash repatriation, including return of capital and business focused flexibility  on distribution of profits and other distributable reserves
  
• Capital restructurings, including complex reductions of capital and / or share premium with multiple shareholders and creditors, cancellation and / or redemption of shares, capitalization of reserves, conversion of capital into distributable reserves and business focused solutions on distributions of capital and reserves
  
• Alignment of legal structure to business divisions, including demergers and partial divisions
  
• Branch establishments and transfers
  
• Financing and refinancing structuring
  
• Setting up and regulating private companies
  
• Setting up joint ventures and other forms of business, including putting in place shareholders’ agreements and specially tailored articles of association