A standing editorial on European mid-market corporate law — long-form analysis of the transactions, restructurings and regulatory decisions that define the next decade for companies between €50 million and €2 billion in revenue.
Most mid-market transactions stall not at signing but in the forty-eight hours between heads of terms and confirmatory diligence. A senior partner walks the choreography — what the seller prepares, what the buyer's counsel actually needs, and where the bilingual-partner model quietly halves the friction.
Read the essayThe revised Foreign Subsidies Regulation shifts the evidentiary burden earlier in the timetable. We map the five disclosures that now shape deal sequencing — and the two that remain genuinely voluntary.
When a €180 million revenue group runs into covenant breach, the public restructuring track can foreclose value before the first creditor meeting. An outline of the discreet drafting path — and what it costs in board candour.
Cross-generational transfers in €80M–€400M industrials rarely look like sales. They look like governance. A senior partner on why the legal architecture is the smallest part of the work.
Eighteen years of standing publication. Grouped by practice, ordered by recency.
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