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Knowledge and Experience

Concentration on the most important aspects of commercial law and a high degree of specialisation enables us to offer our clients a high standard of legal advice. At the same time, the size of our law firm means comprehensive and efficient legal know-how and competence combined with sensible and holistic solutions for the economic benefit of our clients.

Our main competence lies in the following areas:

 German corporate law, in particular
- Formation of companies
- Shareholders' meetings, General meetings
- Corporate finance and share capital increases
- Estate planning
- Management and shareholder counseling
- Shareholders' resolutions and other company agreements
- Articles of association and bylaws,
- Directors' and officers' liability
- Company group Llaw
- Restructuring law
- Dissolution of companies

 Mergers & acquisitions, in particular
- Due diligence
- Sale or purchase of shares or assets
- Share transfers
- (Leveraged) buy-ins and buy-outs
- Divestitures
- Post-merger advice, including litigation

 Venture capital and private equity, in particular
- Project management
- Contractual arrangements and negotiations
- Early-stage, bridge, turnaround and growth financing
- Management buy-out and trade sale

 Corporate finance, in particular
- Equity and mezzanine financing
- Group financing (e.g. cash pooling)
- Debt equity swap
- Other ways of corporate financing on the stock exchange and off-exchange trading
- Project financing

 Restructuring and insolvency
- Mergers, carve-outs and spin-offs, change in legal form
- Restructurings
- Debt equity swap
- Insolvency rescissions
- Prevention of liability
- Creditor counseling
- Insolvency proceedings
- Liquidations

 Contract and commercial law, in particular
- Agency and distributorship agreements
- General terms and conditions
- Antitrust and unfair competition law
- Outsourcing contracts
- Factoring contracts
- Leasing contracts
- Contract reviews and analyses

 Financial and capital markets law, in particular
- Bank contracts
- Loan security
- Securities law
- Stock exchange law
- Compliance

 Compliance, in particular
- Corporate law (i.a. German Corporate Governance Codex)
- Energy law (i.a., Energy Industry Act and Electricity Feed Act)
- Labour law (e.g. Equal Treatment Law)
- Food and pharmaceutical law

 Labor law, in particular
- Managing directors and board contracts
- Termination and severance agreements, including litigations
- Employee participation (e.g., stock option plans)

 Internet, IT law and e-commerce, in particular
- Software agreements
- Database contracts
- Provider and maintenance contracts
- Other license and OEM agreements
- e-commerce law

 International law and European law
- EU competition and capital markets law
- Joint ventures and cooperation agreements
- UN sale of goods contracts
- International trade agreements
- Functional foods (HCR)

 Projects
- Start-ups
- Legal department support
- Legal opinions
- Project management
- Arbitration
- Reorganization measures