Business Restructuring Advisory Firm of the Year in Ireland Bridgewater Alan Carey Managing Partner Tel: +353 1 6604300 (Dublin Office); +353 61 325600 (Limerick Office) alan.carey@bridgewatermcg.com www.bridgewatermcg.com Bridgewater was formed in 1999 to meet the needs of companies experiencing strategic challenges and undergoing significant business transformations. Since formation, the company has built a client base of successful SMEs, multinational and blue chip clients. It has been instrumental in adding significant value to these organisations and has a track record of success – many of these in the SME sector. The company provides the following services: • Strategy / business model development • Financial / accounting services • Business restructuring – operational, organisational, strategic • Business planning and feasibility studies • Training and business mentoring
Bridgewater is at the forefront in helping fledgling businesses reach their potential. Alan Carey, Bridgewater managing partner, noted: “Our team of experienced and dedicated strategy professionals are chosen for their broad range of skills and are expected to have practical hands-on entrepreneurial experience allied with sound academic knowledge. “Our consultants have more than 50 years’ experience in delivering business strategies, transformation and organisational change programmes. We focus on the achievement of business value along with very strong analytical and communication skills which enable us to manage change initiatives to solution delivery.
Since formation, the company has built a client base of successful SMEs, multinational and blue chip clients.
“We are experts in business plan development, market research, finance consulting for growth or restructuring and business training / coaching.” Bridgewater has recently been appointed as consulting partner to BusinessChallenger.com, an innovative cloud-based solution to provide consistent and expert reviews of business plans. This solution is currently in use among several Enterprise Support agencies and bodies across Ireland and the UK. Mr Carey commented: “At Bridgewater, we understand strategic business requirements and processes, and turn them into practical workable solutions through strategic guidance, business analysis, design, planning and solution delivery. It is our passion for helping small businesses grow that makes Bridgewater the best there is.”
Commercial Litigation Law Firm of the Year in Italy GENESIS AVVOCATI, a member of GENESIS ALLIANCE Alessandra Buonvino Associate Tel: +39 0229015148 alessandra.buonvino@ genesisalliance.com www.genesis-avvocati.it
Luca Cozzolino Senior Associate Tel: +39 0229015148 luca.cozzolino@ genesisalliance.com www.genesis-avvocati.it
Genesis Avvocati provides consulting services to the business and financial, Italian and foreign community, having developed specific expertise in the areas of civil, commercial, corporate, tax, banking and finance and labor law. We represent our clients at all levels of the Courts and dispute resolution whether by way of conciliation, mediation or arbitration. Our Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department has achieved important successes with reference to notable cases such as: On 11 February 2011, our client (‘the Buyer’), a company operating in the distribution of construction materials, signed a preliminary agreement for the acquisition of the assets of another company operating in the same business and in the same Italian territory (‘the Seller’). According to said preliminary agreement: a. the assets to be transferred with the definitive agreement included: I. the facilities where the Seller was running its business, for the price of 1,400,000.00 Euros. The facilities were leasehold and a special authorization from the leasing company was required;
Fulvio Di Domenico Senior Partner Tel: +39 0229015148 fulvio.didomenico@ genesisalliance.com www.genesis-avvocati.it
II. the equipment and the machineries listed in the preliminary agreement for the price of 400,000.00 Euros; III. the inventory for a price between 800,000.00 Euros and 1,200,000.00 Euros; IV. the goodwill of the Seller, for 100,000.00 Euros; V. the Employees; b. the final agreement had to be signed on 10 March 2011 (then postponed to 4 April 2011) subject to the fulfilment of the following conditions: I. the parties had to check the consistence of the Seller’s assets; II. the leasing company’s endorsement for the facilities transfer; III. the validity of all the Seller’s commercial licenses; IV. the filing and following approval of liquidator program subject to the Tribunal supervision. On 4 April 2011, the parties held a meeting to mutually check the above conditions, but the result was negative.
On 20 November 2012 the Seller sued the Buyer before the Court of Modena. The Seller requested that the Court was required: a) to ascertain the Buyer’s pre-contractual liability, ex article 1337 of the Italian Civil Code, for not signing the final agreement, and, therefore; b) to condemn the Buyer to indemnify the Seller for all direct and indirect cost damages occurred or to be incurred, having allegedly diverted clients and employees “belonging” to the Seller. The Buyer, represented by our firm, filed a statement of defence, in which he requested to the Court to reject the Seller’s claims because they were groundless, considering that on 11 February 2011 both parties signed a preliminary agreement so that a pre-contractual liability implying the “non recurrence of a contract” was an evident misrepresentation. The Court at the end of two hearings rejected all of the Seller’s arguments, granting a total favourable decision in favour of the Buyer.
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