Our concentration in company and business law has allowed RAMÓN & CAJAL to build up a very extensive corporate and commercial law practice. We provide legal services in practically every area of corporate and commercial law.
Within this area the Firm practices on the following:
· M&A.
· Corporate restructuring.
· Joint ventures.
· Private equity and venture capital.
· General corporate practice.
Our Firm has a particular expertise in the provision of legal advice on Corporate Governance matters such as legal audit on compliance with international, EU and Spanish regulations and most recent recommendations on Corporate Governance; compliance with the Reinforcement of transparency in the provision of information by Public Corporations Act of 2003 and implementing regulations; drafting of General Meeting, Board of Directors and Board Committee Regulations and Internal Codes of Conduct; amendments to corporate by-laws; assistance and advice concerning calls for and functioning of General Meetings, Director's conflicts of interest, legal validity of electronic voting and other kind of proxy and remote voting and independent scrutiny of votes issued; Directors' and Managers' remuneration systems; preparation of mandatory information to be filed with the Spanish National Securities Commission and application of Corporate Governance rules to other type of companies. Several of the RAMÓN & CAJAL partners are specialists of repute in the matter and have recently published a number of works and articles on the Transparency Act and other related regulations.
Within the commercial law area we provide advice on all kind of commercial contracts:
· Distribution, agency, franchise, licence, brokerage, factoring, leasing, renting, advertising and sponsorship agreements.
· Contracts relating to trademarks, commercial names, patents and copyright.
· Computer contracts.
· Electronic formation of contracts.
Finally, our Firm provides advice and judicial and extra-judicial representation with relation to the protection and commercial exploitation of business intangible assets, in particular, trademarks and brand names, intellectual property and know-how, including, licensing, publishing agreements, technology transfers and cooperation agreements, R & D joint ventures, especially in the new technologies sector (software, Internet, audiovisual, biotechnology, etc.).
|
