Our Competences
Corporate Law and M&A Transactions
Corporate Law
- Articles of associations and shareholders’ agreements
- Formations by way of cash subscriptions and non-cash contributions
- Preparation and assistance in shareholders’ meetings and general meetings
- Preparation and implementation of equity and debt financings
- Proceedings regarding defective resolutions
- Shareholder disputes
- Profit transfer and domination agreements
- Liability of managing directors and board members
M&A-Transactions
- Legal Due Diligence
- Structuring and negotiation of company acquisition agreements (asset and share deals)
- Mergers, divisions and form-changing conversion
- Merger control proceedings
Capital Market and Capital Investment Law
Open-end and Closed-end Funds and other Asset Investments
- Legal conception of open-end and closed-end special and retail funds and other asset investments
- Preparation of sales prospectuses, investment memorandums and other sales documents
- Structuring of the articles of association, service contracts and contractual terms
- Ongoing legal advice and support in relation to the initiators, capital management and investment companies
- Defence of claims by investors and claims under prospectus liability
Capital Market Law
- Preparation of securities prospectuses
- Legal support on initial public offering and capital increases
- Preparation of and support on general meetings and creditors meetings
- Issuance of convertible bonds
- Preparation of and support on takeovers
- Legal support on delisting
Banking and Securities Supervisory Law
Corporate & Commercial Litigation
- Processual strategy consulting
- Corporate-related disputes and shareholders disputes
- Civil actions related to commercial law
- Post-M&A disputes
- Defence of claims by investors and claims under prospectus liability
- Defence of revocatory actions of the insolvency administrator
- Proceedings regarding defective resolutions
- Inheritance proceedings and proceedings for the issue of inheritance certificates
- Enforcement of judicial decisions
Structuring of contracts for Corporations
- Contracts for the sale and delivery of goods
- Licensing contracts
- Software development and maintenance contracts
- Agent and distributor contracts
- Quality assurance agreements
- Executive employment contracts
- Joint venture agreement
Private and Corporate Succession in Property Rights
Law of Succession
- Structuring of last wills and testaments and contracts of inheritance
- Anticipated succession
- Rights to a compulsory portion
- Contracts for the benefit of a third party in the event of death
- Powers of attorney regarding legal guardianship and precaution
Foundations
- Advising in the establishment of family foundations and non-profit foundations
- Structuring of the act of foundation and the articles
- Assistance in official approval proceedings
- Current advice of founders and executive bodies of foundations within the scope of the foundation’s activities and settlement
Corporate Succession
- Structuring of succession clauses in articles of association
- Entrepreneurial wills and testaments
- Adjustment and coordination of private succession arrangements with succession clauses in articles of association
- Advising in the change of the legal form of business enterprises
Divisions of Estates and Execution of Wills
- Preparation of schedules regarding the division of estates
- Division of estates among joint heirs
- Assistance in succession-related disputes
- Execution of wills (by way of division or administration)
Alternative Dispute Resolutions
Arbitration Proceedings
- Representation in arbitral proceedings including cancellation and enforcement proceedings under the German Code of Civil Procedure
- Exercising the functions of an arbitrator
Mediation
- Representation in commercial mediation proceedings and other extra-judicial dispute resolutions
- Exercising the functions of a mediator and conciliator