Corporate / Company Law

Let’s leave aside simple case of establishing a limited liability company or changing the director. That does not describe the legal practice. Our legal practice covers clients who have reached the point when they control a list of companies, and even more complicated, they control it not on their own but share their rights and obligations with fellow shareholders.

It is expected that the body of corporate law allows for efficient, predictable and secure agreements and relationships. In practice, the law provides a framework with many unanswered questions. The higher the value of assets, the more one should deal, in a professional, diligent and proactive manner with the following issues:

  • Corporate governance and management issues
  • Majority premium and minority protection
  • Golden shares
  • Capital increase and anti-dilution clauses
  • Group cascade, horizontal planning and vertical planning
  • Share options
  • Enforcement tools.

Through utilizing corporate law, corporations can determine how best to protect the interests of their shareholders and facilitate commercial transactions with customers and lenders.

LEXTAL represents both large public corporations and smaller privately held firms engaged in a broad array of businesses, among them manufacturing, real estate, construction, health care, business and personal services, and retailing.

LEXTAL advises clients who intend to establish a presence in the Baltic States on the available options such as the incorporation of local companies, forming of joint ventures and registration of company branches in the Baltic States. This important aspect of business usually involves drafting company memoranda and articles, sponsorship agreements or contracts as well as assistance in the discussions and negotiations leading to their conclusion.

Additionally LEXTAL provides services covering all aspects of corporate law, including:

  • Incorporation of corporations in Baltic States
  • Corporate entity formations and dissolutions
  • Legal entity formations and dissolutions
  • Partnership and joint venture agreements
  • Shareholder agreements
  • Start-up and venture capital agreements
  • Strategic alliance agreements
  • Sale and purchase of businesses/major assets
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Corporate financing and leasing agreements.