MA Abogados offers comprehensive advice on mergers and acquisitions, from their design and planning to their implementation and, where appropriate, the post-closure and integration phases, conducting the necessary due diligence procedures to prevent unforeseen contingencies in commercial and corporate, employment, tax, criminal, administrative and financial areas.

Our scope covers advice on these operations when they are conducted both as part of the company’s ordinary activities and growth, and as a result of crisis processes, in areas such as:

• Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) of both national and international groups
• Public M&A operations: OPAs and OPA-exempt acquisitions; IPOs (OPS, OPV), capital increases, de-listings, and other withdrawals and admissions to trading (splits and counter-splits)
• RCO (private equity, venture capital and seed capital): investment, divestment, acquisition, alternative divestment processes through private placement or IPO (dual-track divestment processes), establishment, investment and divestment in management agencies and venture capitalists
• Operations relating to companies in difficulties and distressed assets, including real estate assets or loan portfolios (non-performing loans)
• Advice to family business groups
• Due diligence procedures: seller or buyer, public information, and regulated entity shareholders and board members (listed companies, investment services, collective investment institutions, venture capital)
• Drafting and negotiating contracts and related documents
• Drafting and negotiating partnership or joint venture agreements, investment contracts, pacts between partners and family protocols
• Drafting and negotiating incentive schemes for managers, executives, employees and other strategic partners
• Drafting and negotiating covenants not to compete
• Drafting and negotiating company and asset purchase option agreements