Corporate law

Contacts

Dirk Beeckman

 

General corporate law

    • Advice on the different aspects of corporate law
    • Advice regarding the suitable legal form and assistance with the incorporation of companies and related administrative obligations
    • Establishment of more specific legal forms (Partnership, temporary trade association, etc.)
    • Liability of directors, liquidators and auditors
    • Shareholders’ rights and obligations
    • Advice and mediation with regard to shareholders’ conflicts
    • Corporate Governance
    • Conflict of interests
    • Financial assistance – purchase of own shares

 

Corporate housekeeping

    • Preparations for the organisation of (extraordinary) shareholders’ meeting, boards of directors and other corporate bodies
    • Drawing up different meeting documents and assisting with obligations regarding corporate documents (minutes shareholders meeting, meetings of governing bodies, special reports, shareholder ledgers, etc.)
    • Follow up of all administrative obligations which may derive from decisions of the various corporate bodies

 

Legal audit and sanity check

    • Screening of the legal ‘health’ of a corporation whereby on the basis of a limited audit it is assessed whether or not the corporation fails in its legal obligations and the risks that this entails
    • Vendor due diligence in preparation of a sale of the company or any other transaction
    • Buyer due diligence

 

Dispute settlement

    • Company law related procedures and dispute settlements
    • Assistance and mediation in case of disputes between shareholders and directors (mediation, squeeze out procedures, etc.)
    • Minority claims

 

Restructurings

    • (cross-border) reorganisations of corporations and groups of corporations ((cross-border mergers and (partial) demergers, transfers/contributions of branches and generalities, transformations, etc.)
    • Assistance with special transactions (increases in capital, modification of the corporate purpose,…)
    • Advice in case of financial difficulties (protection against creditors, judicial reorganisations, etc.)
    • Dissolution and liquidation of companies
    • Bankruptcy (declaration, contacts with the curator,…)

 

Acquisitions

    • Assistance with transfer of shares and business
    • Assistance with the preparation of the sale of the company
    • Due diligence (vendor and buyer, drafting data room rules, confidentiality agreements, etc.)
    • Drafting and negotiation of different agreements (letter of intent, confidentiality agreements, etc.) and documents related to an acquisition
    • Assistance with post-acquisition integration
    • Assistance with collaboration agreements (joint ventures, shareholders agreements, etc.)

 

Assistance of Start-ups

    • Assistance of start-ups, starting from the beginning of the activities, through the extension of the structure to the accession of third parties or the transfer of the company
    • Advice with relation to the suitable legal form or the establishment of a one-man business
    • Assistance with the incorporation of a company and/or the start up of the activity
    • Assistance with the administrative formalities with relation to the start up of the activities
    • ….

 

Associations, foundations and non-profit organisations

    • Assistance with the choice of structure for the start up and development of the non-profit/social activities and this for both national and international associations
    • Assistance with the incorporation of associations and foundations, and all related obligations
    • Assistance with the acceptance of donations and legacies and fulfilling the related administrative formalities
    • Assistance with the fulfillments of different obligations (submitting membership lists, submitting the annual accounts, publications, etc.)
    • Liability of directors and auditors
    • Modifications of the by-laws
    • Mergers and acquisitions
    • Dissolution and liquidation of associations and foundations