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International Corporate Reorganizations

Our international corporate reorganizations lawyers can help your business create the best structure to succeed.

Whether you’re looking to create efficiencies, maximize the use of invested capital, simplify complex corporate structures, prepare for a divestment or integrate post-deal, our International Corporate Reorganizations legal team can provide bespoke advice across all key areas of law.

Our lawyers have undertaken reorganization projects of all kinds for global clients headquartered in virtually every part of the world.

We’re a global law firm with offices in over 30 jurisdictions, so if your business also spans the world, we are the perfect partner for you. Many of our clients are multinational corporations that reorganize regularly to create efficient and integrated global corporate structures. We also know how important it is to follow any large-scale M&A transaction with the swift integration of assets, people and companies into your new structure.

The challenges of a constantly changing regulatory landscape and the need for efficient corporate and operating functions means many companies are regularly reviewing their own structures. Our lawyers can support you with exactly this kind of strategic planning, encouraging you to look to the future and consider everything from the likely effects of market trends to the impact of geo-political factors. To remain agile and ahead of your competitors, you need legal support from a global team with in-depth experience of helping businesses find their best form.

Our International Corporate Reorganizations team routinely advise on restructuring and rationalization projects designed to achieve specific business needs and minimize the burden of complex corporate structures. The team also advise on post-acquisition integration projects as well as reorganizations and carve outs. Our experience includes advising:

  • a Swedish-American automotive safety supplier on the reorganization of two of its business segments to create a new global electronics brand
  • one of the UK's leading investment platforms on a complex pre-IPO share capital reorganization involving shareholders in multiple jurisdictions 
  • as international counsel to an American automotive components manufacturer on the due diligence aspects of its $5.4 billion acquisition of a competitor. Subsequent to the transaction closing, we led on the global restructure and $17 billion spin-off of the combined group’s powertrain technology business across more than 20 countries
  • a global education provider on a multi-jurisdictional corporate reorganization involving a Dutch limited liability partnership and a Dutch cooperative, with the main aim of a tax efficient separation of the non-US business from the main group and sale of various subsidiaries
  • a pharmaceuticals company on a complex European holding company reorganization across 18 jurisdictions. As a result of the reorganization, the new UK company became the main holding company for the European subsidiaries
  • a Korean HQ’d industrials company on the restructuring of their European operations involving several jurisdictions, including domestic and cross-border mergers in Luxembourg, Ireland and the Czech Republic; as well as the relocation of their regional headquarters from Belgium to the Czech Republic