Corporate law is our core competence in all respects: in its formative character, in the context of a dispute, and both within Germany as well as internationally. We advise and represent our clients in all matters of corporate law. Our clients are entrepreneurs, executive managers, board members, partners, shareholders, supervisory bodies, advisory councils, insolvency administrators and both institutional and strategic investors. We regard ourselves as companions of our clients in all entrepreneurial situations and value their trust in us. Our expertise ranges from custom-made advice for founders to accompaniment of complex restructuring processes and on to support in crisis phases. In providing this service we are sure to take into account the taxation framework conditions and the resulting creative leeway.

Our Professional Focus:

• Law governing partnerships such as GbR, OHG, KG, GmbH & Co. KG, partnerships
• Law governing corporation such as GmbH, AG, SE, foundations
• Formation of companies and joint ventures
• Design, review and optimization of articles of association and partnership and company contracts
• Design, review and optimization of company agreements (voting contracts, pool agreements)
• Preparation and accompaniment of partners’ and shareholders’ meetings
• Design and review of participation agreements
• Corporate housekeeping
• Preparation and execution of capital measures
• Advice for organs and managers; liability of managers
• Assertion of and defense against claims, particularly in regard to liability claims under insolvency law, corporate law and the law that pertains to company organs
• Corporate governance
• Advice and representation in cases of disputes between partners, shareholders and company organs (in and out of court)
• Conflict resolution models incl. preventive conflict avoidance
• Advice in all questions regarding the law of rescission suits
• Law on groups of affiliated companies and intercompany contracts
• Company conversion law, national and cross border
• Advice and accompaniment for reorganization measures and structure optimizations in a group company