Mergers & Acquisitions
Mergers & acquisitions can be a stressful and time-consuming endeavor. If your business is already swamped with higher priority matters, proceeding with a merger or acquisition will be a tall mountain to climb. Agile Legal can be the strong-arm force to carry through your mergers & acquisitions to fruition.
Understanding the
Corporate Transparency Act
As someone with decision-making and legal responsibilities in your company you may well feel at a loss as to where to start when it comes to complying with these new regulations. Agile Legal is here to simplify the compliance process and keep you compliant by managing the whole process of meeting the CTA’s requirements.
In order to be compliant with the CTA’s regulations, you must first determine if any of your entities fall under one of the 23 exemptions. For any non-exempt companies, you then need to report your beneficial owners or employees with substantial control over the business. While you may be hesitant to release your personal identifying information, compliance with these requirements will protect your business from harsh fine and penalties.
Agile Legal’s team of attorneys, certified AML professionals, and senior paralegals have studied the new law extensively. We’ve designed a system so we can keep our clients compliant with the CTA’s regulations.
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Don't Expose Yourself to Unnecessary Risk
Missed Deadlines
Disorganization during the planning process can lead to missed deadlines, sending your progress backwards.
Delayed Entry
Non-compliance and unfamiliarity with local regulations may delay your entry into a country, sacrificing your time and money.
Unsuccessful Projects
These and countless other disruptions hinder the success of your projects and complicate meeting performance goals.
Common Problems When Managing Global Subsidiaries
DELAYS
Delays in entering a country are stressful and can impact the bottom line of your business.
BARRIERS
Language, informational, and political barriers make the process of expansion frustrating.
CAPACITY
Lack of local expertise shouldn't hold you back from managing global subsidiaries.
Your Merger & Acquisition Process Streamlined
It takes incredible attention to detail, effort, dictation, and experience to successfully complete a merger or acquisition. Agile Legal has the tools and right people to carry through any merger or aquisition needs.
Your business could find itself bogged down with pre-closing, corporate authorization, and closing documents long enough to make it unbearable to manage normal business operations. You need a way out.
When you see your mergers and acquisitions come to a successful completion. You can be confident that Agile Legal put the very best legal specialists to finish what your business started.
- Missed deadlines
- Errors in documents & filings
- Wasted time
- Non-compliance
- Penalties & fees
- Sued by state government
- Panic with last minute legal problems
- Disruption to your business
- Lack of funding
Your Risk Without Proper Merger & Acquisition Management
Managed Services For Corporate Transparency Act Compliance
Every Facet Of Mergers & Acquisitions
Policy Creation
- Reporting
- Changes
- Monitoring
- Communication
BOIR Preparation
- Help verify Beneficial Owner information
Beneficial Owner Identification
- Identify and document Beneficial Owners
by interest and substantial control
Reporting Company Exemption Analysis
- Review company records & entity charts
- Document exemption status by Reporting Company
- Monitoring
- Communication
BOIR Filing and Monitoring
- File BOIR with FinCEN, filing updates as needed
- Monitor changes to:
- Beneficial Owners
- Reporting Company
- FinCEN and CTA laws and rules
Managed CTA Compliance – Enterprise
- Help verify Beneficial Owner information
- File BOIR with FinCEN, filing updates as needed
- Monitor changes to:
- Beneficial Owners
- Reporting Company
- FinCEN and CTA laws and rules
Managed CTA
Compliance – Lite
- Closing Agenda: Prepare initial closing agenda or closing checklist together with a list of all assignments for which Agile Legal can be responsible
- Assist in due diligence
- Assist in drafting request for due diligence documents or assisting in receiving and tracking due diligence documents
- Draft schedules
- Perform UCC financing statement searches; Prepare UCC chart with search results
- Perform other public records searches as required
- Initial Agreements and Documents: Draft initial drafts of ancillary agreements and documents
Pre-Closing
- Secretary’s Certificates
- Officers’ Certificates
- Merger Certificates
- Charter amendments (name change, etc.)
Closing Certificates
- Draft stockholders and directors consents
- Obtain long and/or short good standing certificates for all applicable entities, domestic and foreign
- Obtain tax good standing certificates (as required)
- Order certified copies of charter
Corporate Authorization
- Provide transaction assistance
- Finalize documents, separating signature pages for execution and preparing correct number of signature pages for the closing including signature tabs
- Coordinate obtaining signatures
- File charter amendments; UCC financing statements and assist in fulfilling any other closing conditions
Closing Assistance
- Track post-closing matters
- File appropriate originals in minute book
- Revise closing agenda into closing index for binder
- File post-closing filings (i.e. trademark assignments)
- Prepare initial closing binders
- In transactions involving private equity, Agile Legal provides blue sky assistance
Post-Closing
Global Subsidiary Management Tiers
To simplify your entity management, Agile Legal has designed tiers that package our management services, making it easier for our clients to get the help they need.
Not Sure What Services You'll Need?
Contact our international team and we can advise what tier is best for you.
Where We Can Assist With Global
Subsidiary Management
We have extensive country coverage across the globe
This map shows the countries where Agile Legal currently manages entities. These countries are categorized either as Band A or Band B. These bands are based upon the differing levels of complexity of corporate compliance for entities in those countries.
Band A countries have fewer and less complicated regulations for entities than countries in band B. This often correlates with whether a country has a civil law or a common law legal system. Countries with civil law systems tend to be more bureaucratic and stringent with compliance, requiring more work and expertise.
Learn more about the impact of common law and civil law legal systems on global subsidiary management in our blog article.
Looking to Dissolve a Global Subsidiary or Branch?
Agile Legal provides cost-effective and timely rationalization services to help you dissolve underperforming subsidiaries and branches. Check out our International Services page to learn more.
How the Corporate Transparency Act Affects
Formations & Dissolutions
The CTA affects a wide range of fields, and formations and dissolutions are no exception. While the CTA is still in its infancy and will likely be changing as 2024 progresses, these infographics demonstrate how the current state of the CTA affects corporate formations and dissolutions.
Unsure Where to Start with International Support?
Use our contact us page to get in touch with us to see if working with the international team is a good fit for you.
Need International Support?
We have extensive country coverage across the globe
Contract Clause Library
Concerned about your knowledge of different contract definitions?
View our contract clause library to stay up to date with the terminology you should be using in your contracts.
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Our Process
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Have Outstanding Questions About the CTA?
Agile Legal’s team of CTA experts are ready at your disposal to answer any questions you may have about the CTA and its compliance requirements. Book a meeting with us to get 1:1 support from our compliance professionals.
Merger & Acquisition Services and Support
The process of merging or acquiring a business and/or entity can be long, tedious, and problematic if you don’t have the right legal proxy to advance through the binding paperwork and filings. Agile Legal’s team manages a diverse range of merger & acquisition services and is ready to deliver punctual and efficient results with any of your merger & acquisition needs. Stop being stressed out from being stretched too thin by managing multiple high-volume caseloads at once. Let Agile take the reins of your merger and acquisition duties.
Looking to dissolve a foreign entity?
Check out our rationalization services.