Corporate law accompanies companies throughout their entire lifecycle, from choosing the most suitable legal structure and incorporating the company to subsequent restructuring or winding-up. At every stage, proper legal planning is essential to protect shareholders and directors while maintaining the flexibility needed for the business to grow.
At Audens, we advise companies, entrepreneurs and investors on all matters relating to their corporate structure. We help start-ups prepare for investment rounds (with clear structures, balanced agreements and solid documentation) and assist investors in ensuring that their stakes are adequately protected. Our goal is to build organisations that are strong, efficient and ready to scale, striking the right balance between legal certainty, agility and business strategy.
Company formation
We incorporate companies and support them throughout their transformation processes, including capital increases, investor onboarding, asset acquisitions and mergers.
Corporate governance
We advise on corporate compliance, general meetings, minute drafting and notarisation of agreements, providing ongoing support for day-to-day corporate management.
Shareholders' agreements
We design and draft agreements to regulate relations between current and future shareholders, preventing disputes, establishing safeguards and ensuring the orderly growth of the company.
Investor onboarding and due diligence
We assist in investment and M&A transactions, reviewing the corporate structure, shareholders' agreements and legal documentation to ensure that capital is incorporated clearly and securely.
Company secretary services
We act as external company secretary, providing technical support to management bodies and strengthening due diligence in corporate decision-making.
Key experience
We worked with a software manufacturer on bringing a venture capital fund into the company's share capital. We were involved in all stages of the process: negotiating terms, drafting the shareholders' agreement, defining control mechanisms and assisting with notarisation. The transaction secured funding while preserving the founders' stability and control.
We assisted a technology company in bringing on board an industrial investor who, in addition to acquiring a minority stake, sought to establish a long-term cooperation framework. We negotiated the investment and collaboration agreements, defining terms that enabled synergies while safeguarding our client's autonomy.
We worked with an accelerator to create the corporate structure used to channel investments into technology projects. We designed the investment vehicles and assisted in evaluating the start-ups joining the programme, conducting legal reviews prior to their admission.
We advised a technology company on the separation of one of its business lines to attract investment and drive growth. We participated in structuring the transaction, defining contributions and drafting the shareholders' agreement. The project culminated in the incorporation of a new company and the subsequent entry of an institutional investor.
