Mergers & Acquisitions, joint Venture, and Cross-Border Investment

Practice Overview

Professionals in T C Masters have represented a wide range of domestic and foreign clients, from private to public companies and from startup businesses to established firms. We counsel clients on diverse legal issues and transactional structures in achieving their business objectives.

Capabilities and Experience
Formation of Business

• Corporate structuring, tax analysis and planning
• In-bound and out-bound investment
• Foreign investment application
• Formation and registration of foreign company's subsidiaries, branch offices as well as representative or liaison offices
• Expatriate work permits and residence permits
• Office lease review

Joint Ventures

• Corporate structure, minority protection and majority control
• Joint venture agreement
• Shareholders agreement
• Technology transfer agreement
• Trademark and patent licensing agreement

Merger & Acquisitions

• Structuring analysis and tax planning
• Asset acquisition
• Stock purchase
• Preferred stock and debt instrument
• Buy-out of the minority shares
• Price adjustment and earned-out arrangement
• Due diligence
• Advice on capital structure
• Antitrust/Fair Trade Law issues and other regulatory compliance
• Labor issues
• Drafting and negotiating transactional agreements and documents
• Issuing legal opinion
• Assisting at closing

Corporate Counsel

• Protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights
• Corporate securities issues
• Investment matters
• Labor and employment matters
• Corporate finance
• International business transactions and investments
• Corporate regulatory compliance and maintenance as well as setting up shareholders and board meeting
• General corporate and business counseling