Legal

protect clients' assets

Legal Practice Leader
Giuseppe Lupi

Merger & acquisitions

We work closely with consultants in dedicated practices, and assist clients in all stages of M&A and private equity operations.

We provide assistance to companies, financial institutions, investment banks and start-up incubators in arranging purchase transactions involving shareholdings and corporate finance.

We perform due diligence, negotiation, contractual and articles of association documentation preparation and shareholding purchase and sale contract preparation activities as well as providing assistance with closing.

We support the client in extraordinary transactions (mergers, demergers and conversions) and, working closely with Corporate Governance consultants, we assist the client in identifying the company's organisational structures, preparing articles of association and shareholders' agreements and in structuring management and control bodies.

Corporate and commercial contract management

We help companies with the various aspects of corporate and commercial business contract management, offering support in preparing and negotiating various types of contracts.

We provide assistance in property investment transactions.

Working closely with consultants in other practices, we assist the client with Corporate Governance (equity funds, trust funds, patti di famiglia [family business agreements], trusts and successions), Tax Planning (intercompany agreements and contract management regarding transfer pricing), Restructuring and Businesses in Distress (recovery plans, debt restructuring agreements, composition with creditors and insolvency arrangements).

Corporate law

We offer opinions and support to directors and auditors and perform analyses of the liability of directors.

We help clients structure corporate groups, provide support in the legal management of intra-group relations and in preparing articles of association and shareholders' agreements.

We support innovative start-ups and innovative microenterprises from the moment they set up their businesses.

We assist businesses in various phases of commercial and corporate litigation.

We support business activities by providing corporate secretary services (preparing notices of meetings, preparing and reviewing minutes of meetings and board of directors' meetings and amending articles of association).

Industrial and intellectual property, competition

We help businesses protect their assets and associated rights in relation to unauthorised use and third party use, and support them in the proper handling of interactions with other parties in various commercial dealings to help protect against unfair competition.

We work in the area of protecting and safeguarding industrial and intellectual assets (trademarks, parents, models, industrial drawings and know-how, software, databases, domain names, R&D contracts, 3D products) helping clients to draft and negotiate suitable contracts, register and renew trademarks, in disputes brought before Italian and EU patent and trademark authorities.

We perform appropriate assessments and provide consultancy services regarding the establishment of corporate protection protocols.

Privacy and anti-money laundering

We support businesses and their legal managers in meeting all compliance requirements set out by privacy regulations (preparation of documentation and compliance forms for the proper protection of personal data, performance of dedicated assessment, management of privacy risks, data protection officer and training activities) and in the event of inspections by assessment bodies and in dealings with the regulatory authority.

We have significant experience in matters relating to anti-money laundering regulations both for professionals and companies (compliance, opinions and support in terms of procedural management).

Internet and IT

We provide clients with consultancy services and legal assistance regarding contracts relating to IT matters, including licenses and distribution software, cloud-based agreements, app development and use contracts, outsourcing and intragroup IT development service contracts, website and web platform legal compliance, supply of IT goods and services, online advertising and commercial agreements and social media policies.

With regard to e-commerce, we offer consultancy services and appropriate assistance to develop and manage e-commerce systems for goods and/or services.

We perform assessment and mapping of legal risks associated with IT infrastructures (231, IT networks, assessment of organisational suitability in relation to management activities and supervisory bodies) and provide support during investigations into illegal on-line behaviour and computer forensics.

We also offer e-health support (e-health folder and file, management of security measures, regulatory compliance).

Litigation

We assist companies in the negotiation, definition and action phases of disputes relating to industrial and intellectual property.

We manage credit collection and help clients with enforcement procedures relating to securities and property.

Working with consultants from other practices, we assist companies in insolvency and financial litigation (derivatives contracts).

Real Estate

We offer advanced and intelligent advice across a range of practice areas where real estate is at the center of the transaction.

Therefore, recognizing that real estate issues often require local resources and expertise in many other areas of the law, Adacta builds cross-disciplinary teams according to clients’ needs.

Whether it is direct acquisition, corporate acquisition of a property holding company, real estate financing or indirect real estate investments through minority shareholdings or joint ventures, our real estate team can support the client.