Assistance through Phases of Growth

LEXTAL assists their clients throughout all the phases of the business growth process:

Starting your business
We have in depth knowledge of business sectors such as construction, engineering, insurance, international trade and investment, and financial services as well as many other. The knowledge of the specific business areas is indispensable for advising our clients on a variety of issues related to the process of starting a business. Among other, we:

  • Consult on the appropriate form of business association
  • Draft articles of association
  • Negotiate shareholders’ agreements
  • File documents with the Registry of Enterprise
  • Represent shareholders’ interests in shareholders’ meetings
  • Open company bank accounts
  • File documents with the State Revenue Service.

Financing your business
Our mission is to achieve for our clients the optimum financial solution consistent with their commercial objectives. Many of our clients perform transactions involving bank loans, share issues or other means of financing. In order to help our clients, we:

  • Negotiate loan agreements
  • Ensure complete project management
  • Prepare the necessary documentation for receiving financial means
  • Draft all sorts of contracts
  • Consult on corporate, commercial and tax law matters.

Doing business
Our aim is always to add value to clients’ businesses. In order to achieve this, we:

  • Consult on receiving the necessary licenses and permits for doing and expanding business
  • Draft shareholder and management agreements
  • Structure corporate financing
  • Draft sales, distribution, franchise and lease agreements
  • Advise on tax and customs issues.

Protecting your assets
We work with our clients to create structures, which enable those involved to have confidence in the strength of this relationship without constraining them from pursuing other important projects. Our clients ask us to:

  • Draft the employment agreements with a view to ensure employee motivation and avoid employees becoming a competitor’s asset
  • Develop legal solutions to protect company’s data
  • Conduct due diligence in potential mergers and acquisitions, as well as other business transactions
  • Register trademarks
  • Protect any other know-how such as specific work processes, software source codes, designs etc.

Expanding your business
Some of our clients expand their business by merging with or acquiring shares in other companies. We understand mergers and acquisitions. The key to success is getting the basic commercial structure right, but the nature of such relationship requires consideration of the tax, employment, intellectual property, competition law and other implications. Our practice mainly focuses on:

  • Mergers and acquisitions, as well as corporate restructuring
  • Convertible debts, bond issues, shatre capital increases and IPO-s
  • Advice in relation to hostile takeovers
  • Restructuring of risks and liabilities related to expansion
  • Tax law
  • Competition law.

Defending your business
Resolution of legal disputes is a common feature of the operation of the business. We represent our clients in civil and administrative cases. Our main activities in defending your business include:

  • Litigation
  • Arbitration, also international arbitration
  • Negotiation
  • Mediation.