Melvyn Da Silva

Legal and regulatory advice and monitoring in international business law and corporate law; drafting operational legal summary notes for clients and partners, including practical recommendations and risk analysis.

Audit, drafting, and participation in the negotiation of cross-border commercial contracts, determination of applicable law, jurisdiction clauses, payment terms, liability caps, and contractual compliance.

Private international law and cross-border business: analysis of double taxation conventions and their application to group restructurings.

Advice and case management in real estate law: analysis of co-ownership regulations, monitoring of pre-litigation and litigation files, identification of legal risks, and proposal of adapted solutions.

Corporate law: drafting of general meetings, statutory modifications, share transfers, and capital reductions.

Banking law: analysis of loan agreements and constitution of real security interests (pledges of shares, guarantees) and verification of the compliance of security registrations.

Commercial law: drafting and negotiation of event sponsorship contracts (intellectual property law, right to image).

Drafting and formalization of corporate law documents: statutes, minutes of general meetings, share transfers (registrations, dissolutions, demergers)

• - Files handled independently under the supervision of the referring lawyer. Drafting, review, and analysis of commercial contracts, including commercial leases: verification of essential clauses (duration, rent, termination), identification of unbalanced clauses, and proposal of modifications. Jurisprudence research and drafting of memorandums for associate lawyers in corporate law, commercial law, and tax law (analysis of doctrine, synthesis of legislative developments). Analysis of commercial disputes and participation in pre-litigation steps: identification of legal grounds, risk assessment, drafting of formal notice letters, and preparation of files for counsel.

• Legal research and analysis: in-depth study of contentious issues in labor law (dismissal, moral and sexual harassment, overtime, disciplinary sanctions), drafting reasoned legal notes for the lawyer.

• Participation in the drafting of contentious cases (research of grounds, structuring of arguments) for hearings before the Labor Court.