Businesses & Executives
Decide with confidence
Advice that moves at the pace of your business
Creating, growing, restructuring or transferring a business involves consequential decisions in a constantly changing legal, tax, employment and economic environment.
Our practice supports SMEs, mid-sized companies, groups, investors and business leaders with their strategic and operational challenges in France, Portugal and European or international transactions.
Structure, negotiate, secure
Corporate life and capital transactions
We advise from incorporation to succession: articles and shareholders’ agreements, governance, capital transactions, restructurings, acquisitions, disposals, due diligence, shareholder relations, executive liability and dispute prevention.
Contracts and commercial relationships
We draft, review and negotiate terms and conditions, services, supply, partnership, distribution, subcontracting, confidentiality, licence and digital contracts designed to be protective, clear and practical.
Anticipate the risks that come with growth
We incorporate tax and customs implications from the project design stage: business and executive taxation, investments, cross-border transactions, audits and succession.
We also advise employers on employment contracts, management and executives, working-time arrangements, mobility, collective relations, reorganisations and employment disputes.
Finally, we identify, protect and enhance intangible assets: trade marks, copyright, software, data, know-how, domain names, e-commerce and digital compliance.
France–Portugal: a single point of contact
With our presence in Bordeaux and Porto, we assist French, Portuguese and international clients with all their legal and strategic challenges. Our teams work directly in France and Portugal, while coordinating cross-border matters with a leading network of correspondents throughout theEuropean Union.
Each client benefits from a dedicated single point of contact, ensuring consistency, responsiveness and personalised follow-up of their matter. This contact coordinates all the professionals required, whether notaries, accountants, tax advisers, banks or specialist advisers, to ensure smooth and fully integrated management of transactions.
Beyond traditional legal assistance, our offices can act as an outsourced legal department, helping businesses secure their activities, negotiate and review contracts, comply with regulations, carry out strategic development transactions and prevent and manage litigation risks.
This approach gives our clients coordinated, pragmatic international legal support that meets the needs of business leaders, investors and groups operating in several European jurisdictions.
Explore your France–Portugal projects further
See our pages on setting up in Portugal, external legal counsel and business acquisition or sale.