• Auditing of targets, with evaluation of the risks mainly associated with their businesses

• Study of the structure of the acquisition in legal and financial terms

• Drafting of pre-contract documentation (letter of intent, MOU, confidentiality agreement)

• Negotiation and drafting of contract documents (offer, assignment agreement, guarantee of assets and liabilities, shareholders’ agreement)

• Negotiation and drafting of financing agreements

• Negotiation and drafting of agreements for the purchase of goodwill

• Drafting of ancillary legal documentation (adaptation of Memorandum and Articles, resolutions of companies’ governing bodies) and study of post-acquisition implications, especially in terms of company law, employment law and legislation specific to the target company’s business.