Corporate and M&A

We provide comprehensive advice on corporate law matters to companies, on their incorporation and up to the extinguishment of their legal personality, providing recurring advice in their day-to-day operations. Our services include tasks such as: the incorporation of companies, drafting and updating the bylaws, drafting shareholders’ agreements for shareholders or joint venture members, providing advice to Board members and Directors regarding their liabilities, and to shareholders regarding the exercise of their rights, designing and implementing corporate governance structures and providing legal support and seeking solutions to shareholders’ conflicts.

The professional career of ARCO’s founding partners has also led them to take part in designing and implementing numerous corporate reorganizations, transformations of business entities and group restructurings. This has involved a wide range of operations, both among companies in the same group and between independent companies: due diligence processes, mergers, spin-offs, share exchanges, contributions, transfer of lines of business or activity, loan capitalizations, joint ventures or special transactions such as MBO/MBI and LBO/LBI, among others.

Our expertise also extends to providing legal support and seeking solutions within the framework of insolvency and corporate crisis situations. Our services include legal and strategic planning for crisis situations and reorganization of companies and corporate groups, advice during the pre-insolvency stage in order to reach the necessary agreements with creditors to avoid the possible insolvency, restructuring and refinancing in corporate crisis situations, legal assistance throughout bankruptcy proceedings, including negotiations with creditors, financial institutions and suppliers. We also act as legally appointed representative for bankruptcy administration on behalf of companies in bankruptcy proceedings serving as bankruptcy lawyers/administrators.