Corporate work is at the heart of our practice. Our corporate lawyers bring their expertise, versatility and problem-solving approach to bear on the full range of corporate transactions, whether small or large in scale. Our network enables us to service our clients all over the world, including the key developing regions.

Our lawyers and partners have a wealth of experience on offshore and cross-border transactions. We advise both domestic and international clients in connection with businesses based in onshore and offshore jurisdictions. We also regularly advise clients on corporate restructurings, private equity transactions, joint ventures, and statutory mergers.

TaurusLex cross-border Corporate team works closely with our global Fiduciary & Administration associates, which provides company incorporation, management and administration services to our domestic and international clients.

Establishing the right corporate structure is fundamental to operating efficiently. From creating new structures to simplifying, re-organising or restructuring an existing business our lawyers and partners have the knowledge and practical expertise to help you.

We handle all aspects of corporate structuring for companies, partnerships and unit trusts in many jurisdictions. Our specialists in each jurisdiction demonstrate a thorough knowledge of taxation, restructuring, pensions, banking and financial regulation in local jurisdictions and advise on the most innovative structures. We focus on providing swift, innovative advice to time.

Drawing on the additional knowledge in insolvency, we deal with every aspect of contentious and non-contentious insolvency and restructuring, as well as asset tracking, disclosure and freezing orders.

We assist businesses in developing efficient and effective contractual infrastructures for new and existing products and services. Our lawyers draft and negotiate a wide spectrum of contracts ranging from the routine to the highly complex. With every contract, we seek to accurately reflect the contemplated commercial transaction and to balance risk mitigation with economic opportunity.

Our Commercial Transaction lawyers are supported as appropriate by a tailored mix of lawyers from a variety of practice areas across our global network to address the individual needs of our clients. We respond to each client’s dynamic commercial endeavors by providing prompt access to individuals both in diverse fields of law, from intellectual property to employment law to construction, and in applicable geographic areas. The interdisciplinary nature of our practice provides flexibility to the client and allows us to remain price sensitive.

We are intensely committed to supporting our clients’ commercial activities — the heartbeat of the enterprise. We devote significant effort to in-house training and knowledge-sharing, including the development of model contract forms and provisions, in order to foster best practices in our firm. We believe it is good business to get to know our clients and their industries and to be of assistance not only in large-scale transactions, such as mission-critical outsourcing arrangements and strategic alliances, but also in myriad day-to-day and strategic commercial transactions, such as services contracts, purchase and supply agreements, consignments, research and development efforts, managed services arrangements, licenses, technology transfers, and joint ventures.

The Emerging Growth and Venture Capital practice at TaurusLex represents venture funds, corporate investors, and individuals in connection with their investments in start-up and early stage, emerging growth companies. These engagements have involved venture capital financing, acquisitions and disposals of portfolio companies, recapitalizations, restructurings, and liquidity and realization events.

We also represent start-up and early stage, emerging growth companies across diverse industries, and work with these companies from formation, through the various stages of their financing activities, and in their strategic joint venturing, acquisitions and disposals, and liquidity transactions.

Selecting a business structure – corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or sole proprietorship – raises many complex and sometimes critical issues. We carefully analyze and balance factors such as risk management and liability protection, tax consequences, and ownership and control issues when helping clients choose a business structure. We offer clients a combination of technical knowledge and practical experience gained through representing numerous new business enterprises.

We understand the full implications of securing the right tax advice from the outset. TaurusLex provides expertise and insight on all aspects of corporate tax including resident trusts, companies and partnerships worldwide.

We work with clients across a range of industries, as well as with tax lawyers and accountants, to optimise the tax efficiency of your corporate structures.

We’re also often instructed on issues surrounding foreign tax enforcement, confidentiality and the broader international environment.

While our focus is on advising on domestic taxation in different jurisdictions our clients value our international expertise and advice that’s shaped

We advise our clients on all aspects of fund formation, including fund documentation and sponsor equity. We draft documentation for private equity and venture funds, hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, and the investors in these funds. We have extensive and current experience with the terms and conditions applicable to such funds. These include all types of structures for management and other fee arrangements, carried interest, clawback provisions, distribution provisions, and valuation policies. Types of funds represented include buy-outs, distressed debt, infrastructure, mezzanine, public-private investment funds, real estate, special situations, and venture capital.

We advise relating to the establishment, marketing, and operation of investment funds mainly in Cyprus, Guernsey, BVI, Cayman Islands and Bahamas, but our global network of partners let us provide such services in many other jurisdictions. We support our clients in the design, development and promotion of all forms of investment structures whether regulated or unregulated, private or public.

We deal with changes to a fund’s structure during the life of a fund. These may be necessitated by a planned expansion in the fund or a liquidity issue within the portfolio. Such changes are often complex and require a careful consideration of existing rights of investors and obligations of the fund, its directors and agents. Restructurings commonly involve the creation of side pockets to isolate the effect of individual asset illiquidity.

We also provide advice and assistance to those wishing to establish a fund manager or administrator and to established managers and administrators wishing to provide services. This includes advising on the licensing requirements and ongoing obligations for domiciled and non-domiciled managers and administrators and advising on their service contracts with the funds.

We advise on all aspects of investment funds business, including obtaining regulatory consents and advising on and issuing opinions in relation to transactions entered into by funds, including ISDA agreements and structured investments.

Our global practice provides our clients with advice and support on all aspects of their requirements – including corporate restructuring, company law, corporate governance, company secretarial, and other legal and regulatory requirements.

We also advise provide due diligence services and advise on all related issues. Our global network let us advise on due diligence matters relating to companies or funds from every corner of the world.

Our Private Clients & Trust practice is dedicated to assisting high-net-worth individuals and families with the accumulation, management and transfer of personal wealth, as well as advising the financial institutions that serve these clients. Our services include management and succession planning for closely-held businesses, domestic and international tax planning, corporate finance and restructuring, estate planning and transfer of wealth, estate administration, compensation and retirement planning, fiduciary litigation, and a wide range of services to fiduciaries and charitable organizations.

TaurusLex focuses on providing a unique solution for each client we serve. We counsel individuals and families throughout their lifetimes as they acquire and accumulate assets, experience life changes, seek to preserve their wealth, and ultimately pass it on to future generations with the most favorable tax consequences possible.

We assist with a wide range of our clients’ personal legal needs, in a sophisticated, comprehensive, and integrated manner. One aspect that distinguishes TaurusLex is our ability to offer a wide range of legal services in a global environment. Our team meets the needs of our clients wherever they happen to live, work, or own assets.

TaurusLex advises on all aspects of trust in Cyprus, Guernsey, United Kingdom and other jurisdictions.

TaurusLex Insurance and Reinsurance practice has years of experience in representing insurers’ interests. TaurusLex has a number of attorneys and partners working in or through the offices in Cyprus and internationally.
We handle the full range of insurance matters, from the routine to the most complex, and have a depth of experience in the field that is unsurpassed. Led by a core practice representing commercial liability insurers in general, excess and professional lines, we also vigorously represent clients operating in all lines of the insurance and reinsurance business, including property and casualty, life, accident and health, management and professional liability, financial lines, surety and financial guaranty.
TaurusLex represents insurers in each of the stages of company life-cycle, from initial formation, licensing and drafting policies for start-ups, through financial and market conduct examinations, regulatory advice and litigation for market leaders, and even acquisitions and other changes in control and insolvency matters. The firm has established niches in efficiently and successfully managing run-off exposures. We represent insurers in Cyprus, Greece, Romania and Russia.