Business formation & legal structuring

1. Brief service summary

Prepare choices about a business’s structure by considering the project, governance, ownership and operating needs together. The engagement organises the questions to examine and the options requiring validation before legal instruments and formalities for formation or change are undertaken.

2. Your needs

You are starting an activity, bringing in new shareholders or considering a different organisational arrangement. Choices about legal form, ownership or the allocation of powers have consequences that must be examined together.

You wish to distinguish the project sponsors’ preferences from the constraints to be checked in the relevant jurisdictions.

3. Objectives of the engagement

The engagement aims to make the parties’ expectations explicit, identify structuring criteria and prepare a comparison of options. It helps organise the legal, tax and financial validations required before commitments are made.

4. Indicative scope

The work may cover the scope of activity, shareholder composition, proposed contributions, governance principles and future development needs. Legal analysis of possible forms or arrangements is undertaken only within the limits of confirmed expertise.

Intellectual property, financing and relations between shareholders are identified for appropriate treatment. General entrepreneurial preparation remains separate from this service.

5. Possible delivery arrangements

Interviews with the project sponsors, clarification workshops and analysis of available documents help assemble a decision dossier. Disagreements and unsettled assumptions are made visible before referral for specialist validation.

6. Possible deliverables

Deliverables may include a statement of structural requirements, a conditional comparison of options, a proposed ownership diagram and a roadmap of validations and formalities.

7. Conditions and limitations

The engagement does not create any entity and does not guarantee registration, a tax treatment or an authorisation. Drafting legal instruments, providing a registered office, undertaking formalities and representation are not automatically included. The necessary professionals, mandates and professional practice requirements must be confirmed before the corresponding work is undertaken.