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Due diligence, consulting, and support in the acquisition of companies, production units, and packages of assets and debt, by examining and reviewing the company’s accounting, financial, and legal documents, as well as anything else related to the business and its historical growth so as to ensure the price is correct and the contingencies are assumed with the acquisition, where applicable.

Corporate transactions relating to the incorporation of companies, purchase and sale of shares and shareholdings, capital increases through monetary and non-monetary contributions, capital reductions by amortizing shares and reducing their nominal value, compensation of credits, and amending corporate bylaws, as well as dissolutions and liquidations.

Commercial consulting in drafting shareholders' agreements, internal regulations, remuneration schemes for directors and senior executives, assistance and representation at Board of Directors and Shareholders’ meetings, secretary of the boards of directors, advice and negotiation in corporate disputes.

Advice to START-UPS and investors in reviewing agreements, defining company strategy for drawing up shareholders’ agreements, union agreements, assessment and regulation in accordance with the practices and regulations of the business development sector.

Advice on financial restructuring and corporate and individual insolvency, bankruptcy proceedings and commercial and criminal defense in matters of liability of the administrative body, administrators and Board of Directors, as well as board members.

Business restructuring for cost efficiency in company groups and creation of holding structures through mergers, spin-offs, non-monetary contributions, securities swaps, and reviewing intra-group transactions.

Designing of specific commercial contracts for company and business needs, as well as drafting and reviewing contracts for the sale of merchandise, distribution, agency, provision of services, and professional partnership, among others.

Therefore, at BàsicGRUP we believe that the work of creating, advising, and supporting various generations is necessary, not only to protect the family assets, but also for properly and efficiently managing them and the activities that they exploit, as well as maintaining the family unit. All this is done using various tools in the financial, economic, and legal fields.

Aware of this reality in business, at BàsicGRUP we specialize in diagnosing and getting an overall view of the problems of inefficient business structures, handling complicated decisions, and establishing protocols and agreements which help the company’s daily management and the generational transition. That is why we provide consulting for family businesses in the following aspects with regard to the legal field:

Designing and executing professionalization action plans and diagnosing and planning improving the family business and making it more efficient.

Advice on the remuneration system for family and non-family executives in the short and long term.

Business restructuring to create a Family office, improvement of managing family assets, cost optimization and tax planning by creating optimal structures.

Drafting family protocols, family constitutions, creation of Family Councils, internal regulations of the Boards of Directors to improve Corporate Governance, creation and establishment of Steering Committees, designing articles of association that reflect the agreements reached in family companies.

Planning corporate succession by defining the appropriate instruments to test and/or donate, where appropriate, fiscal and tax planning related to the transfer of family assets.

Real estate transactions and administrative concessions, from start-up to completion, from negotiations and assistance in determining the price/value of real estate, to civil due diligence regarding the encumbrances and contingencies that could affect them, drafting of earnest money contracts, promises to sell, sales contracts, and write-down of encumbrances.

Drafting and negotiation of residential and non-residential lease agreements, seasonal contracts, leasing and sub-leasing contracts, and researching the lessee’s and/or sub-lessee’s creditworthiness.

Advising on new construction and property owners associations, preparing articles of association and property association rules and registering them, and joining and subdividing real estate.

Providing tax advice regarding any kind of transactions and/or business and commercial and corporate transactions, both procedurally and when it comes to direct or indirect taxation. Preparing and submitting queries with the Tax Administration in order to resolve them.

Providing tax advice to national and international companies and non-profit organizations.

Guidance on the code of good tax practices

Advice and representation in tax verification and management proceedings, as well as in securities verification, tax collection and penalties proceedings.

Filing Economic-Administrative Claims with the Central and Regional Administrative Courts and filing Contentious-Administrative proceedings with the courts.

Design of procedures and implementation of fiscal Compliance.

We also have experienced professionals in filing, leading, following-up and defending in ad hoc arbitration proceedings by writing briefs, proposing and examining evidence, as well as enforcing arbitration awards and filing injunctions.

Web domain claim arbitration proceedings, especially in cases of misappropriation (cybersquatting), via feasibility studies and compliance with requirements for the recovery and defense of the domain name, and filing of pleadings before the World Intellectual Property Organization, Arbitration and Mediation Center (WIPO) and other authorized providers of out-of-court conflict resolution.