In corporate law, we advise companies, their board members and shareholders. We focus our consultancy on corporate law in critical situations.

The demands on companies and board members have become stricter during the last years and thus require a corporate law consultancy which improves the company’s capacity to act while avoiding risks for organs and corporation. Beside the classical fields of advice (mergers and acquisitions etc.) we advise companies on:

• Support with regard to recapitalization and financial restructuring as well as the planning of the recapitalisation
• Restructuring and reorganization (merger, demerger, change of form)
• Purchase of parts of a company
• Corporate law related measures in case of organ disputes
• Preparation of critical general meetings of listed companies
• Set-up and evaluation of risk management systems based on the current legal requirements
• Creation of effective compliance measures
• Structuring of management’s liability, possibilities of (retroactive) indemnity
• White collar crime
• Risk avoidance with regard to criminal and administrative law, especially in connection with proceedings concerning white collar crime, eco-crime, competition and antitrust law

We advise board members and shareholders in critical situations:

• Official measures against board members resp. shareholders (white collar crime, eco-crime, fiscal matters, competition law, insolvency offenses)
• Protection of the reliable person against incorrect managerial decisions
• Legal evaluation of decisions (ex post or ex ante)
• Capital under-funding and maintenance of capital in critical financial situations on the balance sheet (e.g. accounting insolvency)