ARPA Lawyers Consultants offers professional advice within the trade and corporate fields assisting, inter alia, in contracting, M&A, Joint Ventures, distribution agreements and competition law.
COMPANIES
ARPA Lawyers Consultants offers you corporate advice throughout the lifespan of your society:
At the time of its creation: ARPA Lawyers Consultants analyses what the most appropriate company would be in each case, drafting Company Statutes and other documents (Partner Agreements, Internal Rules of Operation, Vote Syndication Agreement), implementing procedures and management relating to the company.
During the course of its services. ARPA Lawyers Consultants advises on all areas required (negotiating and drafting contracts, ongoing advice on legal and economic matters). Furthermore, our Legal Department is working on the development and formalization of the Minutes of General Meetings held by Partners or Shareholders and Board of Directors, the maintenance of company Register Books of Partners, Books for the Register of Shares, Contract Books of Unipersonal companies, and corporate/company agreements in general. Our professionals also have a vast experience in performing Secretarial duties or office advising lawyers within numerous Boards of Directors.
Finally, our professionals’ advise on processes of dissolution and liquidation, meetings of creditors, and general restructuring of operations.
CONTRACTING
One of the best ways to avoid conflicts in the company, or tackling them from the most advantageous position, is to have proper professional advice when drawing up the contracts. In this field, we offer our services within the areas of negotiation, formalization, development and resolution of all the contracts needed by the company. We emphasize the following areas:
- Contracts for the sale and supply/purchase.
- Contracts for tenancy (Tenancy Agreements), leasing and renting.
- Financing contracts (loans, credits, discounts, factoring or any other form of financing).
- Guarantee contracts (guarantees, mortgages, pledges, guarantees on first demand, etc.)
- Agency Contracts, distribution and franchising.
- Contracts relating to Industrial and Intellectual Property: Trademarks, patents, utility models.
M&A, J.V
Since the creation of ARPA Lawyers Consultants, transactions for the sale of companies have been one of the areas with the greatest demand. As a result, our professionals provide all the services that are required, namely:
- Validating companies.
- Drafting of confidentiality and exclusivity agreements in negotiations.
- Conducting of due diligence processes.
- Negotiating the terms of transaction.
- Developing protocols for the sale/purchase of businesses.
- Preparing syndicate agreements, setting up output and divestiture pacts, anti-lock systems.
- Drafting the internal corporate documentation required for the operation (records, certificates, registers, etc).
- Tax advice throughout the entire process of the transaction.
ARPA Lawyers Consultants has also been regularly working in the planning and execution of mergers, divisions and / or transformation of companies with the aim of organizing a company or a group of companies in the most efficient possible manner, as well as in the creation of industrial, commercial or other kind of Joint Ventures.
RIGHT OF DISTRIBUTION
Amongst the most common problems faced by businesses today, we emphasize those arising, directly or indirectly, from their commercial networks. Therefore, ARPA Lawyers Consultants has been providing special attention to such area, and offers the following services:
- Study and design of the commercial network that better suits every company (commercial agents, distributors, franchisees, mediators or combinations of them).
- Drafting of contracts with members of the commercial network, with particular emphasis on the system of remuneration, territory, exclusivity and non-competition covenants, compensation for failure and customer regulations.
- Continued advice for all issues that may arise in relation with the commercial network.
- Defense of corporate interests before the court, especially in cases relating to contract termination, compensation claims by customers or damages as well as any other claims related to the right of distribution.
COMPETITION LAW
In the current scope of business relations, Competition Law has gained special importance when undertaking certain operations. In these areas ARPA Lawyers Consultants offers their advice defending their clients in the following actions, or preventing them from falling victims of such actions:
- Abuse of dominant position.
- Execution of appointed practices.
- State assistance.
- Acts of Unfair Competition: Proceedings of confusion, deception, vilification, comparison, imitation, exploitation of others’ reputation, violation of trade secrets, or any form of inducement and a contractual or non-contractual breach.
Additionally, our lawyers may handle the processing of proceedings before the National Competition Commission and the competent bodies in each (Spanish) Autonomous Community, or the conduct of court proceedings regarding UCTA or the Competition Defense or Unfair Competition