Corporate Law
We offer our German and international clients the entire range of corporate law consultancy, including standard company law as well our restructuring services that are linked to our M & A expertise. This practice is a principal focus of our activities throughout the firm.
Recognised Restructuring Practice
We advise on inner-corporate issues as well as complex restructuring in national and globally operative group undertakings. Our corporate law restructuring practice is recognised as one of the foremost in Germany (Press Review).
We approach corporate law as a legal structure, but also as an environment for creative business activity. We are therefore concerned on the basis of entrepreneurial instructions and client inquiries to identify the appropriate corporate law structures, to assess risks, and to indicate and create the best possible corporate law structure.
Our corporate law consultancy services include in particular
- establishment and ongoing corporate consultancy of corporations and partnerships including corporate services
- Societas Europaea
- foundation law, law of associations, law relating to cooperatives, and other forms of corporate entities
- measures for corporate and group restructuring (national and international), particularly mergers, splitting, transformations involving a change in legal form, establishment and creation of holding structures, affiliation agreements (profit and loss transfer agreements, controlling agreements, management agreements, etc)
- company succession
- initial public offers, delistings, squeeze-outs
- creation and establishment of joint ventures
- corporate governance (advice on the rights, obligations and responsibilities of management, directors, supervisory boards, advisory boards)
- capital protection (capital procurement, capital maintenance, in particular upstream financing, cash pooling and cash management systems, etc)
staff participation models, outsourcing
- advice to companies in distress
