Corporate Advisory

We assist companies and groups with their entity optimization to align corporate form with strategy, risk appetite, tax efficiency, and investor objectives. We advise on mergers, carve-outs, and integrations, and assist with the implementation of complex corporate reorganizations, carve-outs, demergers, and JV exits/entries. We advise and assist to execute group-level restructurings, intra-group hybrids, holding structures, treasury platforms, and capital management.

We support companies and corporate groups in optimizing their legal structures to align with strategic objectives, risk tolerance, tax efficiency, and investor priorities. Our services include advising on mergers, carve-outs, demergers, spin-offs, and joint venture entries and exits, ensuring these transactions are executed smoothly and in compliance with applicable laws.

We assist with the planning and implementation of complex corporate reorganizations, helping clients restructure operations, streamline governance, and enhance group efficiency. This includes the creation or restructuring of holding companies and intra-group financing or hybrid entities.

Our expertise extends to group-level reorganizations aimed at improving capital management, regulatory compliance, and operational clarity across jurisdictions.

Whether driven by growth, transformation, or market shifts, we deliver tailored legal solutions that are both effective and scalable, ensuring structures are resilient, compliant, and aligned with long-term goals.

We provide strategic and results-driven legal counsel in resolving shareholder disputes, whether they arise from governance breakdowns, deadlocks, breaches of shareholder agreements, or minority shareholder oppression. Our team combines deep legal expertise with commercial sensitivity to protect client interests while aiming to preserve long-term value wherever possible.

We advise both majority and minority shareholders, as well as company boards, on their rights, obligations, and remedies under corporate law and shareholders’ agreements. Our services include pre-litigation negotiation and conflict resolution, enforcement of shareholder rights, unfair prejudice claims, derivative actions, and disputes relating to share transfers, dividend policies, dilution, and management conduct.

When early resolution is not possible, we are equipped to represent clients in mediation, arbitration, or litigation before courts and tribunals. We also assist in implementing governance reforms to prevent future disputes. Our approach is focused on minimizing risk, protecting reputations, and delivering outcomes aligned with business strategy. We combine legal precision with practical judgment, helping clients navigate high-stakes shareholder disputes with clarity and confidence.

We lead negotiations from due diligence to closing deals. We structure carve-outs and spin-offs and exit strategies with tailored contracts, governance, and post-deal protection. We assist with JV formation and governance, and draft shareholder agreements, governance charters, pricing mechanisms and exit protocols. We advise investors, portfolio companies, and founders on rounds, buyouts, exits, minority investments, and partner transitions.

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We provide comprehensive, forward-looking regulatory and licensing advisory services across the full spectrum of financial services, fintech, and emerging digital sectors. Our work is grounded in a deep understanding of fast-evolving regulatory environments and the commercial realities of operating in tech-driven, highly regulated industries. We support a diverse client base that includes banks, payment providers, electronic money institutions (EMIs), investment firms, and crypto-asset service providers (CASPs).

Our services span the entire lifecycle of regulatory engagement. This includes preparing and submitting licensing applications, liaising with domestic and international regulators, drafting supporting documentation, and advising on organisational structure, governance, and control frameworks. We also assist clients with cross-border structuring, passporting rights, regulatory sandboxes, and navigation of pan-European regimes such as PSD2, MiCA and AMLD.

In the digital compliance space, we offer specialised support on cybersecurity, data privacy, systems resilience and product governance frameworks. Our team helps fintechs, CASPs and other online operators to build policies that meet expectations not only of regulators, but also of banking partners, investors, and institutional clients. We ensure that our clients’ compliance frameworks are robust, scalable, and tailored to their business model and risk profile.

We advise on regulatory risk in product development, distribution models, outsourcing, cross-border service delivery, and digital customer onboarding. Our approach combines technical accuracy with commercial awareness, offering practical, actionable solutions that enable innovation while mitigating regulatory exposure.

Whether launching a new platform, expanding into new markets, or responding to regulatory changes, our clients trust us to deliver clear, strategic guidance that balances compliance with competitive agility. We act as long-term partners, not just legal advisors, helping our clients maintain regulatory confidence while growing in dynamic, high-stakes environments.

We provide strategic, responsive, and discreet legal support to companies, boards, and stakeholders facing high-stakes corporate disputes and crisis situations.

We advise on a wide range of matters, including internal governance conflicts, director removals, shareholder activism, or regulatory investigations, boardroom deadlocks, breach of fiduciary duty claims, director misconduct, joint venture fallouts, and disputes arising from M&A transactions or shareholder exits.

In each case, our team acts swiftly to protect business continuity, reputation, and value. Our approach prioritises early resolution through negotiation or mediation, but we are equally prepared to pursue or defend urgent litigation, including injunctions and unfair prejudice petitions where necessary.

In crisis scenarios, such as regulatory enforcement, data breaches, reputational harm, or financial distress, we guide clients through legal risk management, internal investigations, and strategic communications. We work closely with senior leadership, crisis teams, and PR consultants to ensure a coordinated, legally sound response.

Our experience spans listed and private companies, investment firms, regulated entities, and cross-border corporate structures. We combine legal clarity with commercial pragmatism, offering board-level advice tailored to dynamic, high-pressure situations.

We draft, review, and negotiate complex contracts for a wide range of commercial agreements that are critical to our clients’ day-to-day operations and strategy. We tailor each agreement to reflect the commercial realities, risk profile, and industry-specific requirements of the client while ensuring legal clarity and enforceability.

We provide corporate support to manage board minutes, corporate records, resolutions, filings, support on corporate housekeeping, directorships, and officer changes.

For clients operating across multiple jurisdictions, we coordinate legal strategies globally by working with trusted networks of local counsel.

Our role is both strategic and practical, helping businesses maintain regulatory good standing while enabling commercial flexibility and resilience in a rapidly evolving global environment.

We adopt to our clients’ strategic timetable, commercial levers, and risk thresholds, delivering advice that’s pragmatic, effective, and perfect for boards and stakeholders. In each engagement, we prioritize our client’s need, partner with our clients to build trusted relationships, and work to stand to our reputation for high-end delivery.