FIELDS OF LAW
Corporate / M&A
The team in our Corporate/M&A practice group is a reliable partner for start-ups, medium-sized companies, family businesses, national and international groups as well as private equity and venture capital investors.
We offer our clients comprehensive advice on general corporate law, in particular in the areas of partnership and corporate law, stock corporation law, group law, corporate succession, start-ups, reorganizations, transformations, employee shareholdings and the establishment and further development of corporate governance structures. He also specializes in advising management and supervisory bodies as well as preparing and supporting general meetings and shareholders’ meetings.
Our corporate law expertise plays a central role in our transaction practice, which includes company acquisitions, sales, mergers and cooperations. In particular, we assist with joint ventures, private equity and venture capital transactions as well as various forms of financing.
Our team is also very experienced in corporate litigation and advises in particular on shareholder disputes, the enforcement of and defense against directors’ and officers’ liability claims, post-merger litigation as well as resolution challenges and special audits.
Our Range of Services
- Partnership and companies law
- Group law
- Stock corporation law
- Incorporation, restructuring and reorganisation of companies
- Corporate succession
- Group restructuring
- Reorganisations (mergers, demergers and changes of legal form)
- Preparation and support for general meetings and shareholders meetings
- Advising management and supervisory bodies
- Establishment and further development of corporate governance structures
- Compliance, employee participation (stock option programmes and management participation)
- Disputes between shareholders
- Enforcement and defence of directors and officers liability claims
- Resolution rescission, special audits
- Post-M&A litigation
- Support in the acquisition and sale of companies
- Legal due diligence
- Design, drafting and negotiation of respective contracts
- Carve-outs, MBOs, LBOs
- Post-merger integration
- Joint venture agreements
- Articles of association and consortium agreements
- Operative agreements (e.g. manufacturing agreements, supply agreements, development agreements)
- Cooperation with foreign partner law firms in international joint ventures
- Conception and implementation of participation programmes
- Legal portfolio management and legal participation management
- Restructuring of participations
- LBOs
- Bank and syndicated loans
- Financing of acquisitions
- Trade finance
- Bond programmes
- Debt compliance
- Counselling of investors and founding entrepreneurs
- Start-up and seed investment counselling
- Investment and participation agreements
- Legal support during financing and participation negotiations
- Legal portfolio management