Transaction architecture
Define what is being transferred, how the structure works and which legal and practical dependencies must be resolved before closing.
Leading focus
Cross-Border Deal Execution
From deal architecture to settlement.
One execution lead for the legal, KYC, banking, escrow and closing work required to complete a complex private cross-border transaction.
The transaction may be agreed. Execution is the next problem.
Agreeing the commercial terms is one stage. Completing the transaction requires ownership evidence, documents, approvals, payments and transfers to work together across the relevant jurisdictions.
- Ownership evidence must meet counterparty and bank requirements.
- Funds may need to move across several accounts or jurisdictions.
- Payments, asset transfers and other conditions may need to occur together.
- Foreign-law, tax and specialist inputs need a coordinated timetable.
- Escrow, holdbacks or staged payments need clear release conditions.
- Signatures, approvals, settlement and registrations must align.
What we can take ownership of
For founders, owners, private investors, family offices and mid-market companies, we can lead the execution process across the workstreams the transaction requires. Each engagement defines the scope, responsibilities and specialist inputs.
Legal due diligence and documentation
Conduct legal due diligence, draft and negotiate the transaction documents, and coordinate corporate approvals and conditions to closing.
KYC and ownership readiness
Map beneficial ownership, assemble corporate evidence and prepare transaction-specific source-of-funds and source-of-wealth materials where relevant.
Banking, funds flow and escrow
Prepare the payment path, coordinate requirements with banks and other participants, and structure attorney escrow and release sequencing where appropriate.
Specialist coordination
Bring local counsel, tax advisers and financial or technical due diligence providers into a single execution plan, with defined responsibilities and dependencies.
Signing, closing and post-closing
Manage the closing checklist, signatures, satisfaction of conditions and settlement confirmations, followed by agreed registrations, deliveries and post-closing steps.
Transactions we support
Private acquisitions and exits
Share or business acquisitions, founder exits, partner buy-outs and succession transactions where the legal structure, payment arrangements and closing process need one lead.
Asset, IP and technology transactions
Transfers of business assets, software, intellectual property or contractual rights, including arrangements that combine ownership, licences and commercial obligations.
Complex settlement and escrow
Transactions involving multiple parties, jurisdictions, source accounts or beneficiaries, with simultaneous exchange, holdbacks or staged release against agreed conditions.
Private financing
Legal structuring and execution of identified private loans, shareholder or acquisition financing, secured arrangements, bridge financing and convertible structures.
We also support strategic investments, joint ventures and other bespoke private transactions where several legal and execution workstreams need to be managed together.
KYC, ownership and banking readiness
Prepare the transaction before KYC or banking becomes the closing blocker.
- Map ownership and ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs).
- Prepare transaction-specific know-your-customer (KYC), source-of-funds and source-of-wealth documentation where relevant.
- Coordinate corporate records, certifications, legalisation and translations.
- Prepare funds flow and coordinate account, payment and timing requirements with banks and other transaction participants.
Attorney escrow and staged settlement
Where appropriate, Tatra Legal can hold transaction funds in attorney escrow and release them against agreed closing conditions, including staged and multi-party settlement structures.
The arrangement defines who pays, who receives funds, what evidence permits release and how timing, holdbacks and unmet conditions are handled. The account structure and execution controls are established for the particular transaction.
Transaction size and escrow arrangements are assessed case by case; there is no fixed product ceiling.
Cross-border coordination
We assemble and coordinate the specialist inputs required by the transaction, giving the client one lead across legal, tax, financial, technical and settlement workstreams.
Local counsel provide the relevant foreign-law advice. Tax advisers, due diligence providers, banks and other specialists remain responsible for their professional or regulated services. We manage how their inputs fit the transaction, its documents and its timetable.
Bespoke transaction structures
Where conventional structures do not fit the commercial objective, we can design alternative contractual, ownership and settlement mechanisms and coordinate the specialist implementation required.
How we work
Understand the transaction
Clarify the parties, jurisdictions, commercial terms, timing and what needs to move at closing.
Map the dependencies
Identify legal, KYC, banking, specialist and settlement requirements, with a clear owner for each step.
Run the workstreams
Coordinate due diligence, documents, approvals, evidence and payment arrangements against the closing plan.
Manage completion
Control the sequence of signing, release and settlement, and track the agreed post-closing actions.
Discuss a Transaction
Start with a short overview of the transaction type, jurisdictions, approximate value, expected timing and key execution issues. We can then agree an appropriate channel for a confidential discussion of the parties and transaction documents.