Legal Aspects of Group Restructuring Projects

Legal Design and Implementation of Cross-border Group Reorganizations

We specialize in the legal design of cross-border corporate structures, and the legal aspects of group reorganizations. We support corporates and leading tax advisers globally, providing comprehensive legal project management to navigate complex scenarios and achieve successful outcomes.

Typical projects include:

  • Pre-investment, pre-IPO and pre-exit legal entity restructuring projects
  • Post-merger integration of legal entities and intellectual property
  • Designing and maintaining equity incentives for management
  • Corporate streamlining and legal entity reduction projects
  • Legal aspects of global value chain restructuring projects
  • Intra-group Eurobond listings and deep discount bonds
  • Global legal structure design for scale-up companies
  • Intra-group transfers of businesses and assets
  • Intercompany debt rationalization projects
  • Creation of new holding companies
  • Creation of shared service centers
  • Capital reduction demergers
  • Liquidation demergers
  • Corporate migrations
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Optimize Group Legal Structures for Operational Efficiency and Tax Compliance

A group’s legal structure is fundamental – it comprises the legal entities which are its component parts, and defines how they hold assets, how they relate to each other, and how they interact with the outside world. Changes may be required to respond to or prepare for a specific event, such as an acquisition, sale, demerger, IPO, new regulations or a change in the economic environment. We are leading experts in legal structures for cross-border groups. Our experience gives you assurance that your corporate legal structures are fit to support the company’s growth.

Optimize Shareholder Value

Transaction-ready and fit-for-purpose corporate structures with clear ownership of intangible assets.

  • Transaction-ready
  • Due diligence-ready
  • Enhance enforceability of intellectual property rights
  • Improve financial transparency

Manage Legal Risks

We take a targeted approach to managing the cross-border legal due diligence needed before implementing a group reorganization. We apply a materiality threshold which aligns with your priorities and protects your interests, and avoids information overload.

  • Safeguard legal rights and assets
  • Avoid triggering liabilities
  • Identify third party consents
  • Ensure regulatory compliance

Avoid Unnecessary Tax Risks

We work alongside your tax and transfer pricing advisory team, ensuring that tax and transfer pricing objectives are integrated into legal structure design and the implementation process.

  • Ensure the commercial rationale for the restructuring is legally documented
  • Ensure transfer pricing transaction flows have legal substance
  • Avoid unnecessary tax challenges and controversy

Reduce Compliance and Transaction Costs

We help eliminate unnecessary complexity and wasted management time caused by misalignment between regulatory compliance, tax compliance and legal structures.

  • Unnecessary legal entities removed
  • Dividend blocks removed
  • Intercompany transactions simplified

Group Restructuring Solutions for Corporates and Advisers

Our services for managing the legal aspects of group restructuring projects ensure that operational efficiency, tax compliance and transfer pricing compliance is integrated with legal substance. Supporting both multinational corporations and their tax advisers, we provide seamless legal project management assistance throughout the process of designing, planning, implementing and maintaining cross-border legal structures.

Corporates

Effective Legal Structures for Corporate Groups

We assist multinational corporations to implement and maintain effective legal structures, ensuring compliance and operational efficiency.
  • Comprehensive legal design project management of group reorganizations to achieve your goals smoothly and effectively.
  • We work collaboratively alongside your existing tax and transfer pricing advisers.
  • Contact us to discuss your potential needs confidentially and without obligation.
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Advisers

Enhance Client Outcomes in Group Reorganisations

Our service helps advisers deliver exceptional value to their clients by managing the legal aspects of group restructuring, ensuring compliance and reducing risks.
  • We do not offer tax or transfer pricing advice. Our services are designed to complement and enhance yours.
  • We ensure your advice is implemented legally, helping your corporate clients get the protection they need.
  • Contact us to discuss potential projects confidentially and receive indicative fee quotes, so that you can offer a joined-up solution.
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Our 5-Step Process for Tax-Audit-Ready, Transaction-Ready Intercompany Agreements

We follow a proven approach to ensure intercompany agreements and legal structures are aligned with transfer pricing policies, tax objectives, regulatory requirements and economic substance.

Scope

Identify key intercompany transaction types clearly.

Review

Review fact patterns and existing agreements.

Draft

Create agreements to meet the requirements of the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines.

Finalize

Finalize agreements, taking into account the needs of the wider stakeholders.

Implement

Brief directors, arrange signatures and create an audit-ready archive.

Contact Us Today for Expert, Cross-Border Legal Support

Ensure your group restructuring project has a solid legal foundation. Enhance shareholder value and protect your business from legal, regulatory and tax risks.

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Why Choose LCN?

Expert Management of Intercompany Agreements and Legal Structures

Assurance and Peace of Mind

Our expertise in international best practices ensures compliance and reduces tax risks.

Avoid Delays and Wasted Time

We save you significant time by giving you clear direction and hands-on support in the highly specialist area of legal implementation of transfer pricing compliance.

Minimize Ongoing Costs

We streamline intercompany agreements and corporate structures, reducing complexity, risk and transaction costs.

The LCN Difference

  • World-Leading Experts
We are recognized educators in the legal implementation of transfer pricing policies.
  • Global and Cross-Functional Approach
We consider the needs of wider stakeholders – not just transfer pricing – to minimize risks and optimize value for the group concerned.
  • Ongoing Audit-Readiness Support
We maintain agreements in a tax-audit-ready central archive so that they can be produced quickly when required to respond to tax enquiries and due diligence information requests.
  • Diverse Client Base
We work with Fortune 500 companies and scale-ups.
  • Collaborative Approach
We work collaboratively with tax and transfer pricing professionals to help provide clients with better outcomes.
  • Proven Track Record
We are trusted by leading tax and transfer pricing advisers and by corporates with combined annual revenues of over US$160 billion.

Schedule a Consultation with our Group Restructuring Expert

Don’t let the complexities of group restructuring projects overwhelm you. Book a consultation with our experts to discuss how we can support your group reorganization from start to finish.

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