CORPORATE
Studio Legale Guidotti provides legal assistance in all aspects of corporate law, from the incorporation of companies and partnerships to their transformation, restructuring, dissolution and liquidation. Studio Legale Guidotti supports corporate bodies in their ordinary activity, sees to the drafting of constitutional documents, by-laws and shareholders’ agreements, advises on litigation between shareholders and especially on the relationship between majority and minority shareholders. Finally, Studio Legale Guidotti assists foreign clients in the establishment of branches and representative offices.
MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS AND OTHER EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS
Studio Legale Guidotti provides assistance to Italian and foreign companies, investment funds, managers and individual investors in a wide range of extraordinary transactions, both domestic and international, including acquisition and sale of companies and businesses, purchase and transfer of interests, mergers and demergers, capital increases, private equity and corporate joint ventures, also abroad and with the involvement of Italian institutions devoted to the internationalisation process of Italian enterprises.
BANKRUPTCY, INSOLVENCY AND RESTRUCTURING
Studio Legale Guidotti advises companies in financial distress (both potential and actual), facilitating restructuring or liquidation. Legal assistance ranges from preliminary advice on management of the business crisis and eligibility for specific insolvency proceedings to the preparation of the relevant application, thus assisting the entrepreneur from inception to closure of the entire process. Activity may include transfer of business or portions thereof, sale of assets and properties, relationships with banks and with third parties however involved in the insolvency proceedings. Over the years, Studio Legale Guidotti has been involved in several compositions with creditors and certain members of the firm have been appointed as bankruptcy receivers and administrators, besides having been recently filed in the official register of experts within the composition for business crisis management.
PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY
Studio Legale Guidotti acts as reference to insurance companies, public entities (mainly local health authorities and hospitals) and private persons for consultancy in relation to professional liability and medical malpractice. In such latter respect, the firm has actively followed through academic activity the legislative evolution and judiciary trends on misconduct and negligence, causation and burden of proof.
COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS
Studio Legale Guidotti regularly advises its clients on commercial contracts, including distribution and agency agreements, commercial development agreements, contracts for the management and supply of logistics and other services, real estate lease contracts and business lease agreements, outsourcing, franchising and license agreements.
REAL ESTATE AND CONSTRUCTION
Studio Legale Guidotti offers a complete range of legal services in the real estate sector. More specifically, the firm can assist its clients (construction companies, private and institutional investors, real estate funds) in the acquisition, development, management and disposal of their real estate portfolio. After completion of the acquisition phase, Studio Legale Guidotti takes care of drafting and negotiating the agreements for the establishment of temporary partnerships between architects and engineers, companies, joint ventures and consortia with the aim to develop the projects, design agreements and construction contracts, as well as preparing and managing construction claims and reserves, providing consultancy on insurance coverages and performance bonds, including during closure of projects and testing phase.
LITIGATION AND ARBITRATION
Studio Legale Guidotti has gained extensive experience in the civil litigation sector, both before the courts and arbitration panels. By way of example, actions for corporate bodies’ liability, corporate, commercial, real estate, insurance and banking litigation can be mentioned. Certain members of the firm have been appointed as arbitrators in the relevant proceedings.
BANKING AND FINANCE
Studio Legale Guidotti is able to provide legal assistance in various sectors of banking and finance to credit institutions and private entities. This includes consultancy on capital markets with specific focus on the Italian Finance Regulations Consolidated Act, consultancy on banking laws according to the Italian Banking Regulations Consolidated Act, drafting and negotiation of banking and loan agreements, leasing and factoring arrangements, bank guarantees, patronage letters and other types of security packages, together with protection of credit institutions, companies and consumers against usury, breach of informative duties and other hypotheses of responsibility.
INHERITANCE, TRUSTS AND GENERATIONAL TRANSITION IN FAMILY BUSINESSES
Studio Legale Guidotti provides assistance to individuals, both Italian and foreign, in the field of succession and inheritance, in the constitution of trusts and in Family Law in general. Services include management of obligations arising from family relationships, including marriage and divorce, treatment of children, and related economic matters, as well as protection of estates and assistance during generational transitions.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Studio Legale Guidotti offers legal assistance in licensing of intellectual and industrial property rights, copyright infringement and unfair competition.
LABOUR
Studio Legale Guidotti mainly advises on drafting and negotiation of employment contracts and collaboration agreements for executives and other top managers. Studio Legale Guidotti also assists its clients in issues and claims that should arise from such relationships, including settlements before the competent trade unions and associations, termination of employment and management of non-competition obligations, litigation and legal opinions within the context of corporate transactions and business transfers.
ENVIRONMENTAL, H&S AND SUSTAINABILITY
Studio Legale Guidotti advises companies during their implementation process of corporate environmental and sustainability policies. Services range from assistance in outlining and executing energy projects from renewable sources to support in obtaining environmental and administrative permits and authorisations, from drafting and negotiating EPC and O&M contracts to the ordinary management of plants until their natural disposal or sale on the secondary market. Studio Legale Guidotti also assists companies in the field of health and safety at work, including consultancy in the creation of adequate organisational processes, delegations of powers and protocols.
PRIVACY PROTECTION
Studio Legale Guidotti assists its clients in the organisation and implementation of adequate privacy policies and protocols, guiding companies in their compliance process with the principles of GDPR, also in the exchange of personal data with foreign countries.