Media & Entertainment Law
- Copyright regulatory compliance
- Negotiation and preparation of co-production and content development agreements for film, television and other media; music contracts; publishing contracts
- Copyright due diligence in commercial transactions
- Copyright content acquisition and validation
- Advising on procurement and commercialization of media rights
- Pre-contractual advisory on, drafting and reviewing agency agreements, royalty contracts, sponsorship and endorsement agreements, music contracts, etc.
- Advisory services on issues of breach of confidence in the media and entertainment industry
Corporate & Commercial Law
- Incorporation of corporate entities, divestitures & restrucring
- Domestic & International joint ventures
- Corporate governance issues
- Shareholders agreements
- Corporate & shareholders disputes, litigation, dispute resolution, settlements, arbitration
- Contracts structuring & negotiation
- Sales & Purchase of shares & other assets
- Structuring of international sale agreements
- Agency & distributorship agreements
- Corporate finance
- Secured transactions
- Cross-border transactions & Contracts
- Non-Profit Organisations
- Company Secretarial
Real Estate & Property Development
- Real estate development, planning and land use
- Real estate sale and acquisition
- Real estate finance, refinance and tax
- Lease agreement for commercial and residential use
- Construction, engineering and turn-key contracts
- Infrastructure and other major projects, including PPP and concession structures
- Public works
- Real estate securities
- Construction insurance
- Property damage and subrogate recoveries
- Cross-border transactions
- Leasehold properties
- Property management related arrangements
- Hotels and resorts
- Real estate portfolio restructuring
Taxation & Insolvency
- Corporate taxation solutions
- Personal income taxation(expatriates included)
- Property tax and available incentives
- Special taxation regimes for disfavored areas and foreign investments
- Banking taxation and regulatory regime
- Profit repatriation
- Value added tax
- Income tax(fiscal depreciation and thin capitalization rules included)
- Tax allowances for capital expenditures
- Withholding taxes
- Custom duties and levies
- Tax litigation
Labour/Industrial Relation
- Employee benefits
- Employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions
- Staff secondment and relocation, cross-border included
- Personnel restructuring strategy
- Individual and collective lay-offs
- Voluntary retirement schemes
- Employees stock option plans
- Trade Unions issues
- Management agreements
- Private pension schemes
- Employment related contributions
- Outsourcing and transfer of employees in the process of transfer of undertaking
- Individual and collective employment agreement
- Employment related disputes, including benefits and executive compensation litigations
- Workmen’s compensation
Natural Resources
- Electricity generation, transmission, supply, distribution
- Licensing and operation of independent power plants
- Privatization and corporata restructuring in the energy sector
- Service agreement, public procurement included
- Financing and security documents, including project finance
- Regulatory issues
- Greenfield/brownfield structures
- PPPs & concessions in the energy field
- Renewables
- Energy trading
- Green certificates
- Nuclear power
- Cogeneration and independent power production
Energy
- Electricity generation, transmission, supply, distribution
- Licensing and operation of independent power plants
- Privatization and corporata restructuring in the energy sector
- Service agreement, public procurement included
- Financing and security documents, including project finance
- Regulatory issues
- Greenfield/brownfield structures
- PPPs & concessions in the energy field
- Renewables
- Energy trading
- Green certificates
- Nuclear power
- Cogeneration and independent power production
Merger & Acquisition
- Acquisition and divestiture of state-owned and private entities
- Cross-border mergers & acquisitions
- Extensive due diligence analysis
- Regulatory issues
- Bid and tender preparation
- Takeover tactics and flexible bid repositioning
- Mergers & acquisitions finance
- Management buyouts
- Feasibility analysis
- Assistance in negotiations, pre-closing and post-closing issues
- Post-privatization issues
- Post-acquisition transition consulting and integration
- Merger reorganization
- Corporate restructuring
- Private Equity
- Debt restructuring
Capital Market & Insecurities
- Securities public offerings (IPOs, Voluntary and mandatory takeovers included)
- State bonds and treasury bills issuance
- Capital market divestitures
- International securities issues
- Investment funds and brokers
- Derivatives trading
- Assets and other Assets based structures securitization
- Share issues, including share purchase agreement, share valuations
- Stock option plan
- Stock exchange listings
- Stock repurchases programs
- Municipal bonds and Euro bonds
- Periodic reporting and other disclosure obligations
- Minority shareholders right and shareholders disputes
Intellectual Property
- Patents-registration & Protection
- Distinctive Signs,including Trademarks
- Copyright & Related Rights
- Trade Secrets & Know-how
- Industrial Designs
- New Varieties of Plants
- Internet & Domain Name Registration
- Drafting & Negotiating licence & assignment contracts
- Franchise agreements
- Unfair competition & business practices
- Comparative & misleading advertising
- Protection & enforcement against piracy & counterfeiting
- Intellectual Property litigation
- Trademark Registration and Maintenance
- Technology Transfer
Litigation & Arbitration
- Commercial and civil litigation
- Contractual disputes
- Bankruptcy insolvency and restructuring litigation
- International dispute resolution
- Fraud and deceit
- Administrative litigation
- Environmental and public law litigation
- Product liability
- Professional liability
- Enforcement of foreign judgements
- Early neutral evaluation
- Tort actions
- Family law/Matrimonial Causes
Banking & Finance
- Domestic and International lending and credit (including syndicated and bilateral loans and related security)
- Asset financing (equity finance included) and securitization
- Banking law and regulatory issues
- Banking services provision, direct provision based on freedom of services movement included
- Export credit finance
- Factoring and receivables purchase
- Debt structured finance
- Credit risk analysis & non-performing loans
- Debt recovery
- Investment banking
- Electronic banking
- Mortgage and charges
- Property finance and leasing
- Consumer finance
Telecommunications
- Telecommunications and satellite regulatory issues
- Operation of telecoms/IT/media businesses
- Infrastructure, project and equipment finance
- Lisences and authorizations
- Broadcasting and media law
- Licencing type interest transfer
- Mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures
- Hardware sale, lease and Purchase
- Software development and licensing
- Technology transfer
- Internet use
- E-Commerce
Maritime, Shipping, Aviation Transport
- Cargo claims and damage
- Carriage of goods
- Rail, road and air transport
- Shipping and transportation litigation
- Marine insurance and reinsurance
- Shipping document compliance
- Shipping and transport finance and related collateral
- Dispute and litigation under shipping documentation
- Aviation regulatory issues
- Aviation licensing
- Aviation finance
- Airport regulations
- Aircraft sale, lease and purchase
- Aircraft mortgages
- Aviation insurance and reinsurance
Debt Recovery & Insolvency
- Business restructuring & insolvency
- Complex judicial reorganization and bankruptcy procedures
- Liquidation of debtor’s assets and liabilities under insolvency procedure
- Restructuring and rescue strategies
- Receivership services
- Insolvency court proceedings
- Insolvency and voluntary liquidation regulatory issues
- Due diligence of companies undergoing insolvency procedure or voluntary liquidation
- Financial institutions insolvency
Insurance
- Personal injury claims
- Professional indemnity disputes
- Pollution claims
- Product liability
- Fire, flood, storm
- Reinsurance and retrocession
- Coverage issues and insurance products
- Directors’ and Officers’ liability
- Employer liability
- Financial risk insurance
- Fraud investigations and assset recovery
- Insurance and re-insurance disputes
Infrastructure and Public Private Partnership (PPP)
- Energy and infrastructure projects
- Environmental Reporting
- Waste management
- Planning(Zoning)
- Regulatory and compliance
- Occupational safety and health
- Accidental Events
- Climate change
- Compliance issues
- Brownfield development
- Environmental auditing and due diligence
- Contamination and remediation
- Emissions trading
- Transboundary impact
- BAT
- Environmental impact assessment
Environment
- PPPs agreement structuring and negotiation
- Public tender and bid preparation
- Concession of public assets and services
- Regulatory issues
- Royalties and tariffs
- Infrastructure projects, Utilities and mining projects
- Public procurement contract and dispute settlement
- Joint venture, Consortium and other partnering arrangement
- Regulatory advice
- Risk allocation and analyses matrix
- Tax and legal advice in optional contractual and corporate structure