WM LAW also provides legal expertise in corporate law.

• Company formation;
• Regular legal supervision;
• Equity transactions (capital increases/decreases, transferable securities issues…);
• Restructuring (mergers, complete transfer of assets and liabilities, partial contribution of assets, demergers);
• Insolvency.

• Negotiation and writing of documents;
• Acquisition audits/Due diligence procedures;
• Shareholders’ agreements;
• Management package ;
• Optimization of buyback operations;
• Financing (banks, bonds, subordination).

WM LAW assists companies of all sizes and private owners in their tax operations.

WM LAW assists its clients and provides advice on the following tax fields:

• Restructuring of companies and corporations (mergers, partial contribution of assets, complete transfer of assets and liabilities, demergers);
• Assistance in all corporate tax operations (management package, capital decrease, buyback operations, LBO);
• Assistance in corporate tax optimization (tax integration, parent-subsidiary relationship, active holding company);
• Restructuring of real estate properties;
• Assistance in tax audits and disputes;
• Optimization of the CEO’s remuneration;
• Regularization of overseas undeclared assets;
• Global wealth analysis of CEO and private owners (optimization of transfer, life insurance and additional income, preservation of standards of living);
• Assistance in French wealth tax and income tax returns for residents and non-residents;
• Assistance and legal advice on relocation and expatriation.

WM LAW provides advice and representation in relation to intellectual property.

Counsel :

• Trademark registration in France, Europe and worldwide;
• Research of any precedence and analysis;
• Creations: Copyright protection and/or registration of designs;
• Inventions: Patent and/or know-how protection (related to industrial property counsel);
• Writing of agreements relating to intellectual property (licence, transfer, coexistence, publishing, etc.).

Litigation:

• Objection procedures before registration offices (INPI*, OHMI) ;
• Legal actions relating to intellectual property rights (infringement, nullity, forfeiture, etc.) and closely related to unfair competition-commercial parasitism.

*INPI: French Industrial Property Office

WM LAW provides all sports stakeholders with legal advice and representation regarding any issues in this particular field.

• Relationship between sports clubs and stakeholders (sport employment law): members, staff, athletes, volunteers, sports agents…;
• Relationship between sports clubs and organizations (Leagues, Federations…): clubs structuring, sports regulation, disciplinary matters…;
• Transaction agreements and intellectual property related to sports (trademark, image…);
• Transfers: we help athletes and/or clubs negotiate and establish transfer agreements;
• Sports events: regulation in sports contests, disciplinary law, clubs liability.