Extensive expertise in corporate law

We provide comprehensive support in all matters relating to corporate law – from setting up a company to restructuring, reorganization, crisis resolution, and liquidation.
Our services include in particular:

We support and advise you right from the start of setting up your company and develop a tailor-made solution for you. This includes in particular:

Issues such as liability limitation, the role of shareholders, tax issues, and the fungibility of shareholdings play a role here. Financing issues, for example, can also influence the legal form.

The wording of the articles of association influences, for example, the weighting of the individual organs of the company (shareholders’ meeting, management), can determine the establishment of additional organs, can specify approval requirements for management decisions, regulate the transferability of shares, and much more.

Shareholder agreements are particularly common in start-ups where an investor is involved from the outset or will be involved in the foreseeable future. Shareholder agreements cover matters such as the vesting of shares, good leaver and bad leaver provisions, drag-along and tag-along provisions, valuation provisions, and similar issues.

Typically, service contracts with management bodies are also drawn up during the start-up phase.

We advise and support you throughout the various stages of your company’s life cycle. This includes in particular:

After the company has been established, capital measures may be necessary or advisable. These include not only traditional capital increases, but also mezzanine capital in its various forms or the tailor-made procurement of pure debt capital.

The departure of shareholders and the entry of new shareholders into the company are typical developments during the operational phase of a company. We provide legal advice and support for these processes.

These include demergers, spin-offs, mergers, changes in legal form, and combinations of these measures.

These measures are regulated by the German Transformation Act (UmwG). Their implementation may be advisable or even necessary at any stage of a company’s life cycle. However, such structural measures are usually most active and most necessary during the operational phase of a company. We advise and support you in these structural measures from selection to implementation, regularly consulting with tax advisors.

Crisis situations are part of business. We help you ensure that they do not become disasters, but merely challenges. This includes in particular:

Disputes between shareholders usually do not arise during the start-up phase, but rather during the operational phase (and later phases). We advise and assist in these disputes both in and out of court, provide support and advice before, during, and after shareholders’ meetings, and conduct proceedings to remedy defective resolutions.

Crisis situations typically arise during the operational phase of a company, although they can of course also occur during the start-up or winding-up phase. Crisis situations often raise the question of whether there is an obligation to file for insolvency or how a restructuring loan should be structured. In addition, the examination and structuring of other instruments, such as debt waivers with debtor notes and debt-equity swaps, are playing an increasingly important role. We advise and support the company and its shareholders in these legal matters.

It should not exist at all: unregulated succession. However, if this important issue has not been addressed in good time, it can still occur. The legal response depends on the individual circumstances and is therefore just as individual and varied. In many cases, the addition of supervisory bodies (advisory board, supervisory board) can remedy the situation.

Succession planning is particularly important for medium-sized companies once the founder reaches a certain age. Those who find a successor within the family have a considerable amount of planning to do. We advise and support you throughout the entire process, regularly consulting with tax advisors.

An entrepreneur wants to divest all or part of his business or bring a strategic partner or financial investor on board. We advise and support these processes from start to finish, regularly consulting with tax advisors.