Commercial and company law
Company-law decisions shape the future of a business – from day-to-day management to strategic decisions and changes in the shareholder structure. We support companies, entrepreneurs and shareholders with well-founded expertise in company law and a keen understanding of their individual goals and challenges.
Our advice combines legal precision with a pragmatic eye for economic relationships. We support medium-sized businesses and family-run companies with all company-law questions, up to and including complex structural measures, the long-term arrangement of internal business successions and the sale or purchase of companies.
We advise management boards, supervisory boards, managing directors and shareholders in strategically important situations, accompany shareholders' meetings and general meetings as well as changes in company management, and provide support in company-law disputes. Even in demanding conflict situations, we represent our clients' interests with experience, foresight and the necessary assertiveness.
Our aim is not only to develop legally robust solutions, but to accompany our clients over the long term as a reliable partner in all significant company-law decisions.
Areas of activity in detail
- Structuring and restructuring corporate relationships, including drafting partnership agreements, articles of association and rules of procedure
- Advice on setting up a business and choosing the right legal form
- Advice on restructurings and reorganisations of groups of companies
- Support and advice on business successions and generational change in family businesses
- Advice on purchases and sales of companies and shareholdings, conversions, mergers, joint ventures or consortium agreements
- Sale of professional practices/partnerships to financial investors
- Prevention and analysis of threatened post-M&A disputes, or averting them
- Preparing and accompanying shareholders' meetings and general meetings
- Support and advice in shareholder disputes (e.g. actions for annulment, exclusion, removal from office, appraisal proceedings)
- Support and advice on directors' and officers' liability
- Advising managers and supervisory board members on service contracts and termination agreements and on (remuneration) models for the participation of executives and employees
- Implementing advisory board and supervisory board models
- Advice on group-law structures
- Drafting contracts for commercial agents, authorised dealers, factoring, leasing and franchises, standard supplies and purchasing
- Drafting general terms and conditions for offline and online trade
- Advising managers and supervisory board members on service contracts and termination agreements and on (remuneration) models for the participation of executives and employees
- Advising associations of the liberal professions
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