Commercial Contracts, Corporate Law and Corporate Governance

The commercial law department at Durán-Sindreu provides general legal advice on every area of commercial practice and offers comprehensive solutions to the legal needs that arise from business activity.

We provide a close, flexible commercial law advisory service, tailored to the client’s needs and with a high degree of specialisation, offering bespoke solutions and added value to traditional services through our team.

Our experience shows that every business decision has significant legal implications that must be analysed and considered together with economic and financial aspects. That is why our approach in this area gives top priority to properly aligning business objectives with the regulatory framework in which our clients operate, providing services with a business mindset and a clear focus on results.

Special mention should be made of compliance with the rules, principles and procedures that must govern the structure and operation of companies’ governing bodies (Corporate Governance). Our advice focuses on ensuring that the requirements of transparency, rigour and diligence set out by the applicable rules and prevailing court practice are met, in order to avoid liability for directors and officers and to safeguard their respective positions through the strictest compliance with the law.

Our clients include large companies, major Spanish corporate groups, subsidiaries of international groups, family businesses, public-sector entities and entities in the so-called Third Sector.

The practice area covers: (i) Corporate Law and Corporate Governance, (ii) Commercial Contracts, (iii) Listed Companies, (iv) Competition Law.

Our services

  • Design and drafting of good Corporate Governance rules (Articles of Association, Regulations of the General Meeting, of the Board of Directors and of any existing committees, Codes of Ethics and Conduct, among others).
  • Remuneration policies for directors and senior officers.
  • Implementation of mechanisms to oversee executive management performance.
  • Setting up adequate procedures to ensure that managers and employees comply with applicable regulations (compliance).
  • Advice to the Board of Directors on managing corporate liability and identifying risks associated with potential transactions.
  • Drafting of agreements between members and/or shareholders. Shareholders’ agreements or extra-statutory agreements.
  • Liability actions against members/directors.
  • Management of disputes between members.
  • Challenges to corporate resolutions.
  • Incorporation of companies.
  • Dissolution and liquidation of companies.
  • Drafting of General Meeting minutes.
  • Acting as Secretary of the Board of Directors.
  • Drafting of articles of association and all kinds of subsequent statutory amendments, such as share capital increases and reductions, among others.
  • Drafting of internal regulations on the operation of companies.
  • Negotiation and execution of all types of corporate acts, such as registered office changes, granting and/or revocation of commercial powers of attorney, and appointment, re-election and removal of officers.
  • General terms and conditions of contracting.
  • Service agreements.
  • Cooperation agreements.
  • Letters of intent.
  • Supply, agency and distribution agreements.
  • Manufacturing and toll-manufacturing (maquila) agreements.
  • Transport agreements (CMR).
  • Domestic and international sales of goods.
  • Insurance contracts.
  • Acknowledgements of debt.
  • Asset transfers.
  • Corporate groups.
  • Foundations, associations and not-for-profit entities.
  • Franchises.
  • Cooperatives and groups of cooperatives.
  • Joint ventures (UTE), Economic Interest Groupings (AIE) and other special-purpose vehicles.
  • Advice on compliance with the obligations of listed companies, including notifications to the competent authorities.
  • Inside information.
  • Corporate governance: independence and transparency within the Board of Directors.
  • Representation and defence before competition authorities.
  • Merger control.
  • Advice on competition law (unfair competition, anti-competitive agreements, among others).
  • Legal and consulting services for franchise networks

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