OUR EXPERTISE
RASS provides qualified and thorough assistance and advice in the various areas of corporate law, corporate finance and M&A, which constitute the Firm’s core business.
RASS has developed its expertise in this field through consolidated experience acquired over decades of practice, representing national and international clients (leading industrial and financial operators) in managing their companies and business activities in Italy and abroad.
The Firm’s professionals specializing in Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and M&A, together with their teams, are able to assist clients both with day-to-day operations and extraordinary transactions, providing a wide range of tailored services covering all aspects of corporate law, corporate finance and M&A, including:
- analysis and definition of the structure of extraordinary transactions, including determination of the implications thereof (also from an employment, antitrust and regulatory perspective)
- acquisition and disposal of companies (whether wholly owned and/or involving majority or minority stakes)
- shareholders’ agreements
- transfers and contributions of businesses and business units (acting for the seller or purchaser)
- mergers and demergers
- capital and financial structure transactions: equity, debt and “hybrid” instruments, financing
- Joint Ventures (contractual and corporate) and consortia
- Private Equity
- Venture Capital
- Due Diligence
- Negotiation
- preparation of contractual documentation (NDA, Letter of Intent, Term-Sheet, SPA, R&W, escrow agreement, financing and related security interests, merger/demerger plans and related resolutions and corporate documents)
With regard to corporate law, the Firm’s advisory and assistance services include:
- incorporation of companies (including innovative Start-ups), definition of corporate structures and drafting of articles of association; transformation, dissolution and liquidation of companies
- corporate governance, including analysis and definition of relationships among shareholders, intra-group relationships, management and control systems, corporate structure, allocation of powers, delegations, powers of attorney and functions (including in relation to environmental matters, occupational health and safety and personal data processing)
- generational succession of business assets
- direction and coordination of companies
- corporate services (drafting minutes of corporate bodies, participation in shareholders’ meetings, maintenance of corporate books, registered office and domiciliation services, management of corporate and regulatory compliance, drafting of legal opinions and legal opinions)
- serving as non-executive directors
