CORPORATE LAW
CORPORATE ORGANIZATION AND CORPORATE TRANSACTIONS
Corporate law is one of the key competencies of the law firm. Our specialist lawyers provide a comprehensive service covering all issues surrounding the organisation of companies and for all business transactions. Our team of experts, who possess the highest levels of expertise and experience in the negotiation and management of company-related processes, is at your service. We never lose sight of the interrelationships between issues concerning tax and business management. Our Notary's Office also possesses recognised expertise in this area.
We provide you with support in founding, financing and structuring your company or your group of companies. We help you to plan and manage project companies and joint ventures or accompany you during national and international business acquisitions and shareholding agreements (venture capital). We will, of course, also advise you during times of crisis, in the event of disputes under commercial law and in the establishment of an appropriate succession plan.
Alongside our sometimes leading regional position within the JUVE Handbook of German Commercial Law Firms and in The Legal 500, we have also been specifically singled out as a renowned law firm for corporate law and mergers and acquisitions.
Dr. Jürgen Bechtloff
Lawyer, Notary Public, Certified Specialist in Commercial and Corporate Law, Certified Specialist in Banking and Capital Markets Law
Dr. Götz Grevesmühl
Lawyer, Notary Public, Certified Specialist in Commercial and Corporate Law, Certified Specialist in Tax Law
Dr. Andreas Holzhüter
Lawyer, Notary Public, Certified Specialist in Commercial and Corporate Law, Certified Specialist in Tax Law
Caroline Meyer im Hagen
Lawyer, LL.M. (Uppsala University)
Practice Areas:
Tax law, commercial and corporate law, banking law
Dr. Klaus Oepen
Lawyer, Certified Specialist in Commercial and Corporate Law, Certified Specialist in International Business Law
BUSINESS START-UPS
- Advice with regard to structuring
- Partnership agreements
- Shareholders' agreements
- STRUCTURING OF BUSINESSES AND GROUPS
- Comprehensive service from experienced civil-law notaries
BUSINESS SUCCESSION
- Long-term planning of succession processes
- Advice in the event of partnership agreements and testaments
- Transfer of businesses, companies and business assets
- Involvement of managers and employees
- Incorporation of employment law and tax-related considerations
BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS
- Divestment and acquisition of companies
- Advice with regard to various transaction structures
- Preparation and implementation of structured divestment processes
- Management buyout (MBO) and management buy-in (MBI)
- Drafting of shareholding agreements, including options
- Due diligence
- Incorporation of tax and antitrust law-related considerations
EMPLOYEE SHARES
- Investment by managers and employees, direct or indirect shareholding
- Preparation for business succession
- Options models
- Incorporation of employment law and tax-related considerations
FINANCING OF BUSINESSES
- Financing by shareholders, banks and third parties
- Financing through equity, borrowed capital or mezzanine financing
- Investment agreements
- Implementation of investor processes in the case of start-ups
- Implementation of capital measures
- Provision of collateral
- STRUCTURING OF BUSINESSES AND GROUPS
COMPLIANCE
- Analysis of compliance risks
- Advice regarding compliance for small and medium-sized businesses
- Establishment of a Compliance Organisation within the company
- Provision of ombudsman and hotline functions
- Training of managers and employees
STRUCTURING OF BUSINESSES AND GROUPS
- Structuring and restructuring of businesses
- Reorganisation of groups of companies
- Structuring of businesses and company agreements
- Implementation of advisory board and supervisory board models
- Transformation law and transformation tax law
- Group tax law
KONFLIKTE MIT GESELLSCHAFTERN UND ORGANEN
- Mediation, advice and legal representation in the event of disputes with shareholders
- Mediation and arbitration proceedings
- Laws governing relationships between executive bodies (managing director, board members)
- Directors' and officers' liability
- Shareholders' liability
- STRUCTURING OF BUSINESSES AND GROUPS
JOINT VENTURES
- Advice with regard to structuring
- Partnership agreements
- Joint Venture-Vereinbarungen
- Einbeziehung Kollegen unterschiedlicher Rechtsordnungen
- STRUCTURING OF BUSINESSES AND GROUPS
- Einbeziehung kartellrechtlicher Faktoren
TAX LAW
- Tax-optimised transaction payments
- Real estate transfer tax in the event of business and real estate transactions
- Corporate tax law
- Turnover tax law
- Tax-optimised business succession
CRISIS, INSOLVENCY AND RESTRUCTURING
- Crisis consulting
- Duty to file for insolvency and recommendations for action
- Transactions and restructuring during crises and insolvency
- Restructuring and financing
- Examination and defence of the right to appeal