Business Law in Tunisia
Horizons Audit & Consulting supports Tunisian and international companies with their legal, financial, corporate and restructuring transactions in Tunisia.
Business law expertise supporting your projects
Horizons Audit & Consulting provides comprehensive business law assistance covering the main strategic, legal and financial issues faced by Tunisian and international companies.
Our approach combines financial, tax and organisational expertise to support business leaders and investors with development, restructuring, financing, business transfers and equity transactions.
Strategic and corporate transactions
Mergers and acquisitions
We support our clients throughout the mergers and acquisitions process, including:
- Economic, legal and financial assessment
- Tax optimisation of the proposed transaction
- Valuation of the shares of each entity
- Assistance with the preparation of merger documentation
- Support throughout the different stages of the transaction
Restructuring and capital transactions
Our services also cover:
- Partial asset contributions
- Valuation of a share portfolio in connection with the exit of a major shareholder
- Legal and financial restructuring involving public or private funds
- Management of public company privatisation assignments
- Preparation of formalities and legal documents required for capital increases
- Strategic restructuring of groups of companies
- Structuring of holding companies and equity investment companies
Support for financial transactions
Financial markets and regulated transactions
Horizons Audit & Consulting assists its clients with:
- Initial public offering procedures
- Implementation of public takeover offers
- Procedures before the Financial Market Council (CMF)
- Central Bank authorisation procedures under foreign exchange regulations
Investment and financing
We also provide assistance with:
- Applications for grants and financial support
- Assessment of identified investment opportunities
- Due diligence relating to proposed equity investments
- Fundraising
- Identification of co-investors
- Business valuations and economic assessments
Business transfer, governance and shareholder relations
Business transfer
Our firm assists companies and their executives with:
- Business transfer strategies, particularly in connection with retirement
- Identification of potential buyers for business transfer transactions
- Business valuation prior to a transfer transaction
Governance and legal organisation
We also provide assistance with:
- Review of shareholders’ agreements
- Review of management mandates
- Implementation of franchise agreements in coordination with the firm’s partner lawyers
- Legal structuring of groups of companies
Transmission, gouvernance et relations entre actionnaires
Transmission d’entreprise
Notre cabinet accompagne les entreprises et leurs dirigeants dans :
- Le conseil en stratégie de transmission d’entreprise, notamment dans le cadre d’un départ à la retraite
- La recherche d’acquéreurs potentiels dans le cadre d’opérations de transmission d’entreprise
- L’évaluation de l’entreprise en amont d’une opération de transmission
Gouvernance et organisation juridique
Nous intervenons également dans :
- L’examen des pactes d’actionnaires
- L’examen des mandats de gestion pour compte
- La mise en place de contrats de franchise en coordination avec les avocats partenaires du cabinet
- La structuration juridique de groupes de sociétés
Support for complex situations
Companies in financial difficulty
Horizons Audit & Consulting also assists clients with matters relating to the regulations applicable to companies in financial difficulty, as well as the legal and financial restructuring operations that may result from such situations.
Tax reassessment
Our assistance with tax reassessment procedures may include:
- Assessment of substantive and procedural requirements
- Analysis of reassessment grounds raised by the tax authorities
- Detailed review of calculation methods used by the tax authorities
- Identification of appropriate legal solutions
- Preparation of objection letters
- Coordination with the client’s lawyers
Looking for business law support?
Horizons Audit & Consulting supports companies, business leaders and investors with restructuring, financing, acquisitions, business transfers and development projects in Tunisia.