The Firm regularly advises corporate groups, founder – and family – owned businesses, investment banks, financial institutions and private equity and venture capital funds on ordinary corporate law matters and extraordinary transactions building upon long term relationships. The team provides its clients with highly qualified guidance on all matters of company and commercial law, together with expert lawyers from the other practice areas, such as Tax, Financial Regulation, Banking, IP-IT & Privacy, Structured Finance, Insolvency & Restructuring, and Real Estate, offering integrated and seamless advice tailored to clients’ needs in day-to-day operations. Drawing upon its strong transactional experience, the team is specialized in advising on complex M&A and private equity transactions, both buyer side or seller side, assisting domestic and international clients across the full spectrum of their transactional activity and at each and every stage, from structure planning, to due diligence reviews, to the drafting and negotiation of contractual documentation, through to completion and post-completion matters. On the most sophisticated transactions, the team acts as key contact for all legal advice, coordinating the Firm’s internal expertise with external advisors (including top tiers leading foreign law firms). The team has represented clients on a large number of domestic and cross-border acquisitions, mergers, spin-offs, investments, businesses sales and joint ventures, across a wide range of industries, including regulated ones such as banking & finance, real estate, energy & infrastructures. The team has in-depth knowledge of corporate reorganisations and provides tailored and strategic advice to design the governance of corporate groups and family-owned businesses (also in connection with generational change and wealth transfers). The team has established CRCCD Venture, a group focused on advising venture capital clients and businesses engaged in technological innovation, assisting in establishing investment vehicles and venture capital funds and in the structuring of venture financing transactions. More generally, the group advises both investors and/or founders on start-up and scale-up investment rounds, as well as innovative SME, from pre-seed funding to growth stage and exit (also through listing on regulated markets).