Corporate, Public M&A, Finance

Our proven experience and extensive professional and academic background in administrative law, together with our distinctive interdisciplinary and business-oriented approach, enables our professionals to understand client’s needs, whether they are private companies operating in regulated sectors, or permit or concession holders, i.e. public companies. We provide tailored, practical, and innovative advice to help clients achieve their goals.

We assist our clients with creating corporations, managing operations, and corporate compliance processes, raising capital, and all aspects of corporate governance and shareholder relations, particularly for public entities. We implement growth, restructuring, or exit strategies, and we define and execute complex investment, divestiture, or integration processes based on industrial, financial, or functional logic, depending on the case.

In line with our focus on Public Law and Economics, in the area of Corporate/M&A we have specific expertise in relation to public and private companies, concession holders of works or services, corporate and financial vehicles created as part of public-private partnership transactions, and "special purpose vehicles" regulated by the Public Procurement Code (Leg. decree No 36/2023).

Providing assistance to these types of entities requires a deep understanding of complex administrative law, and an interdisciplinary approach capable of integrating corporate law with a profound jurisprudential sensitivity. Moreover, the publicly held company and the in-house company are entities that are particularly close to the public sector, and which play an important role within the administrative and economic system of countries, raising relevant issues of public financing, competition, and public aid, relations with public shareholders, and the liability of board members. Providing meaningful counsel to the different classes of companies therefore requires solid knowledge not only of corporate law, but also of the Consolidated Law concerning companies in which all or a majority of the share capital is publicly owned (Leg. Decree No 175/2016), the New Public Procurement Laws (Leg. Decree No 36/2023) and the new Laws on Financially Significant Local Public Services (Leg. Decree No 201/2022).