
Corporate
Questa Advocaten encompasses the whole spectrum of corporate work.
We can help with a variety of corporate law issues that you might face. From incorporation of your company, over capital increase or capital reduction, corporate restructuring, mergers or de-mergers, disputes between shareholders, joint ventures, shareholders’ agreements to the dissolution of the company.
Our
experts

Ellen Peeters
lawyer
Dirk Beeckman
co-founder / lawyerGeneral Corporate Law
Advice on the different aspects of corporate law
Advice regarding the appropriate legal structure of companies, assistance with the incorporation of companies and the necessary administrative obligations
Establishment of more specific company forms (partnership, temporary trade associations, joint ventures agreements, …..)
Liability of directors, liquidators and auditors
Shareholders’ rights and obligations
Advice and mediation with regard to shareholders’ disputes
Corporate Governance
Conflicts of interest
Financial assistance – company purchase of own shares
Corporate housekeeping
Preparations for the organisation of (extraordinary) shareholders’ meeting, boards of directors and other corporate bodies
Drafting various meeting documents and assisting with obligations regarding corporate documents (minutes shareholders meeting, meetings of governing bodies, special reports, shareholder ledgers, etc.)
Follow up of all administrative obligations which may derive from decisions of the various corporate bodies
Legal audit and sanity check
Screening of the legal ‘health’ of a business whereby on the basis of a, limited audit it is assessed whether or not the business fails in its legal obligations and the risks that this entails.
Vendor due diligence in preparation of a possible sale of the company or any other transaction
Buyer due diligence
Dispute resolution, mediation
Company law procedures and dispute resolution
Assistance and mediation in disputes between shareholders and directors (mediation, squeeze out procedures, etc.)
Minority claims
Corporate restructuring
(Cross-border) reorganisations of companies and groups of companies (mergers, (partial) demergers, transfers/contributions of a line of business or a generality, cross-border mergers and demergers, transformation, etc.)
Assistance with special transactions (capital increase, change of the corporate purpose, etc.)
Advice in the event of financial difficulties (protection against creditors, judicial reorganisations, etc.)
Dissolution and liquidation of companies
Bankruptcy (declaration, contact with the official receiver, etc.)
Acquisitions
Assistance with transfers of shares or asset deals
Assistance with the preparation of the sale of the company
Due diligence (vendor and buyer, drafting data room rules, confidentiality agreements, etc.)
Drafting and negotiating of different agreements (letter of intent, confidentiality agreements, etc.) and documents relating to an acquisition
Assistance with post-acquisition integration
Assistance with collaboration agreements (joint ventures, shareholder agreements, etc.)
Assistance of start-ups
Assistance of start-ups, from the beginning of the activities, through the development of the business infrastructure to the entry of third parties or the transfer of the company
Advice regarding the suitable company form or the establishment of sole proprietorship
Assistance with the incorporation of the company and/or start of the activity
Assistance with the administrative formalities with relation to the start-up of the activities
Associations, foundations and non-profit organisations
Assistance with the choice of structure for the start-up and development of non-profit/social activities and this for both national and international associations.
Assistance with the incorporation of associations and foundations, and all related obligations
Assistance with the acceptance of donations and legacies and fulfilling the related administrative formalities
Assistance the fulfilments of different obligations (submitting membership lists, submitting the annual accounts, publications, etc.)
Liability of directors and auditors
Modifications of the by-laws
Mergers and restructurings
Acquisitions
Dissolution and liquidation of associations and foundations