Corporate/Commercial

O’Flynn Exhams’ corporate practice is at the heart of the firm’s activities. We have developed a young and dynamic team with diverse experience and great energy.

Our team has extensive experience on advising companies ranging from large listed companies to small start-ups on all matters including M&A, flotations, joint ventures and financing. The firm’s long established reputation for providing a pragmatic corporate service comes from our work with leading names in the real estate, State, energy, construction, development and banking sectors. Today our clients come from an ever-widening range of sectors.

Several of our lawyers in this department have been admitted and practiced abroad and have experience of complex and multi-jurisdictional transactions.

The areas on which we advise include:

General Commercial
· Company formation
· Company re-structuring/re-organisations
· Business acquisitions - share and asset sales and purchases
· Subscription and Shareholders Agreements
· Joint Venture and Partnership Agreements
· Advice on insolvency, examinership and receivership
· General commercial agreements
· Insurance and Financial Services Law
· Irish/EU Competition Law

Company Secretarial Services
· Company Incorporations
· Maintenance of Statutory Registers and Minute Books
· Drafting Board and General Meeting Minutes
· Preparation and Filing of Annual Returns
· Registered Office Facility
· Registration of Branch, Place of Business and Business Name
· Advice on Corporate Governance and Directors Duties
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Preparation of Minutes and filing Statutory Forms in relation to
· Appointment/Resignation of Officers
· Relocation of Registered Office
· Transfer of Shares
· Allotment of Shares
· Amendments to Memorandum and Articles of Association
· Procuring Bonds for non-resident Directors
· Change of Company Name
· Change to Share Capital
· Members Voluntary Strike Off


Corporate Finance
· Venture Capital fundraising and private equity
· Management buy-ins and buy-outs
· Financing mechanisms, including public private partnerships and Business Expansion Schemes

Banking & Finance
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Corporate and general banking

· Commercial lending
· Loan and credit facilities
· Property and acquisition finance
· Sale and lease back
· Asset finance
· Structured finance and securitisation
· Project finance
· Debt restructuring
· Leveraged finance
· Consumer credit
· Hedging arrangements
· LMA documentation

E-Commerce, Technology and IP Law
· Software Development and Distribution
· Transfer and Licensing of Patents, Trademarks
· Copyright, Trade Secrets, Database Rights
· Data Protection Compliance
· E-Commerce issues, both contractual and regulatory
· Domain Name registration, transfer and dispute resolution

For information on recent transactions see Recent News.

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CONTACTS
s Richard Neville
s Irene O'Donovan
s Frank M O'Flynn
x Brian Cunneen (Dublin Office)
   

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