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Our business and M&A consultants offer assistance with complex negotiations and all types of company operations including start-ups, leveraged buyouts, mergers, reorganizations, spin-offs and joint ventures. They also represent those taking part in M&A in almost all of its capacities.

Studio Bocca assists its clients with all aspects of company and general business law including the writing of contracts, the setting-up of companies, assistance to the board members with the fulfilment of business tasks and administrative and control board meetings.

We also offer consultancy on the organization and structure of operations including the coordination and the carrying out of legal and fiscal due diligence and the writing and review of agreements and shareholder’s agreements.

The tax department of Studio Bocca and our partners have more than 20 years of experience. We are proud of having a tax team, which allows us to guarantee our clients with full support and assistance in complex operations.

The department offers a complete range of tax advice services both to Italian and international companies as well as to individuals (residents and non-residents). National and international tax advice is offered as well as matters regarding regulations including all aspects of company law.

Our professionals are experts in direct taxation (on businesses and individuals) and indirect taxation, such as VAT and registration tax. They also offer international tax advice with particular attention paid to tax issues concerning multinationals as well as tax planning for firms and individuals.

The professionals at Studio Bocca are also specialized in the resolution of tax disputes in front of competent authorities and, in the case of litigation, before all types of tax commissions.

Studio Bocca offers judicial and extra-judicial advice for both individuals and businesses with regards to all aspects of national and international problems.

Our expertise focuses on advice and assistance in:

• Tax issues relating to mergers, splits, acquisitions and successions in companies.
• Issues relating to the sale of business property, company changes, liquidation and joint ventures.
• Studies and advice.
• Tax planning.
• The preparation and finalisation of trusts.
• National and international tax planning.
• VAT and indirect taxation.
• Financial and tax planning for the purchase of assets.
• Preparation of appeals and arbitrations.
• Assistance with composition with creditors and bankruptcy.

Our experience includes advice and assistance in:

• The drafting and negotiation of national and international contracts.
• Configuration and preparation for joint ventures.
• The establishment and management of consortiums.
• The supervision of consortiums and temporary associations of enterprises.
• Tender contracts.
• Loan and finance contracts.
• The establishment of concession contracts / the use of brands and other laws of intellectual property including those for software, know-how and merchandising.

Mergers and acquisitions, Corporate Finance Transactions, Private Equity, Regulated Markets.

Our experience includes advice and assistance in:

• The management of the duties of the administrative body and assistance during such meetings.
• Identification of models of corporate governance within the internal subdivision of operations that can be delegated.
• The different phases of purchase for companies both as major and minor shareholders in Italy and abroad.
• The transfer of companies or branches including the necessary due diligence, modification and negotiation of relevant contracts and / or instruments- letters of intent, purchasing contracts and corporate agreements. Acquisition financing and mezzanine capital.
• Business divisions, mergers, takeover bids, public exchange offers, company quotations in controlled markets – public offers for sale and privatizations.
• Advice and assistance in private equity, venture capital, management buy-out and buy-in.
• Advice and assistance in the real estate industry on behalf of individuals and corporate acquirers.

The professionals at Studio Bocca are qualified in the statutory auditing of accounts as per the national legislation decree 39/2010. They can therefore be employed as members of the board of statutory auditors or as individual auditors when businesses, either by law or by choice, decide to entrust legal control of the accounts to a qualified professional.

Studio Bocca helps both Italian and foreign investors in all legal and administrative aspects relating to all real estate projects, property investment funds, owners, asset management companies, developers and banks.

For small, medium and large acquisitions as well as the divestment of real estate, advice is offered on the creation of mediums of investment for real estate, on the valuation of properties, the resolution of development and management problems of real estate as well as potential regulatory, environmental or administrative issues that may arise.

We have considerable experience in financing for the purchase of real estate and can advise on Italian law, secured loans, pledge agreements, share purchase agreements and the creation of special purchase entities.

By means of its partnership with CIE SRL, Studio Bocca owns advanced technological equipment, which allows its clients to go online for book-keeping and the writing of annual and interim accounts. This provides total independence and allows all book-keeping and tax performances to be correctly recorded.