Banking and Financial Law

Specialised legal advice

PARES has a team specialised in strategy, negotiation and assistance with financial operations, restructurings and providing and enforcing guarantees, both nationally and internationally. We also offer services related to capital markets, financial instruments and regulatory counselling.

Within the field of Collective Investment Undertakings (CIUs), we advise management companies of collective investment undertakings (SGOIC) and venture capital companies (SCR), with an emphasis on operations in real estate investment undertakings, in non-financial assets, and venture capital funds (VCF). Our experience enables us to quickly establish securities investment funds, property investment funds, venture capital funds and credit recovery funds, including the preparation of all the necessary incorporation documents.

We also have expertise in compliance and in the Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (PBCFT), supporting management companies, funds and financial institutions in analysing operations, preparing reports for supervisory bodies and implementing internal control and PBCFT procedures.

Areas of Expertise

• Operations with CIUs: Incorporation, capital increase and reduction, dissolution, liquidation and reversion of CIUs.
• Commercial Transactions: Strategy, negotiation and assistance with financing operations, reorganisation, guarantees, capital markets, financial instruments and regulatory advice.
• Advising CIUs: Management of meetings of fund participants, relations with the depositary and changes to management regulations.
• Registration Processes: Registration with supervisory bodies, suitability processes, mergers, changes in corporate purpose, and the incorporation of VCCs, VCFs, SGOICs, collaborative financing companies and other financial entities.
• Compliance: Compliance officer services, policy preparation, internal control supervision, risk analysis and compliance verification.
• Know Your Customer (KYC): Verification of the KYC process, analysis of counterparties, communication with legal entities and preparation of PBCFT reports.