The relationship between employer and employee requires careful and diligent organization as well as tactical management.

The collaboration between the management and the workers’ council can potentially lead to conflicts and can support the business or pose a serious obstacle.

We help our clients to create and obtain sufficient latitude.

Our clients rely and trust our expertise in the following sectors of individual and collective labor legislation:

• Drafting and finalizing employment and/or freelance agreements
• Conducting negotiations with workers’ councils about bargaining agreements and social-compensation plans
• Arbitration committee proceedings
• Conducting negotiations with trade unions
• Conducting negotiations for collective agreements
• Legal advice and representation due to termination
• Legal advice in mediation processes
• Legal advice in individual cases concerning labor law
• Support and counsel in transfers of undertakings
• Corporate restructuring
• In-house workshops and training courses

We advise and represent banks and leasing companies as well as private and institutional investors in all aspects of the laws, rules and regulations regarding banking, financials and capital markets. We are working closely together with internal legal departments as well as the individual employees of the branches. Our clients, who act as market participants, benefit from our knowledge, experience and know-how gained over the course of 20 years.

Our activity includes but is not limited to:

• Counselling in day-to-day business operations
• Drafting, revising and finalizing loan agreements
• Assertion of claims in and out of court, as well as the implementing of claims
• Exploitation of collateral, pledges and encumbrances
• Complex forms of financing
• Syndicated financing
• Counselling on restructuring measures
• Defense against claims of refutation
• Counselling and representation in insolvency proceedings
• Implementation of new statutory regulations
• Regulatory law and regulatory requirements

Our clients value our well-founded national and international experience as entrepreneurial consultants for the business, shareholder and bodies. Our clients are corporations listed on a stock exchange, small and medium-sized businesses, sole proprietorships, start-ups, foundations, trusts, VC-companies, family offices and, private equity companies as well as insolvency practitioners, that trust us in the following matters, amongst others:

• M&A, MBO, distressed Mergers 
• Conflicts of Shareholders
• Disputes between company bodies
• Directors' and officers' liability
• Insolvency and crisis consulting
• Litigation proceedings, revocatory actions and arbitration
• Preparation, support and back office of shareholder meetings

Our clients are benefitting from our years of intersectoral experience in commercial law.

Domestic and international companies of different sizes from the construction industry, automotive industry, mechanical engineering sector, medical industry, companies of the timber industry and sawmill by-products sector, IT and IT-distribution sector and financial sector are counted among our clients. We advise for example in the following areas:

• Law of commercial agency
• Commercial transactions
• Distribution rights
• Merchants and commercial companies
• Court and arbitration proceedings

Even in a time of crisis our clients can rely on our fast, efficient and creative solutions. We assist companies, directors, executive boards and supervisory boards, insolvency practitioners, and others involved in company restructuring in especially in the following topics:

• Overcoming the crisis and avoiding insolvency
• Avoidance of penal and liability risks
• Debt collection
• Exploitation of collateral, pledges and encumbrances
• Revocatory actions
• Rights for separation and segregation and
• Claims due to delayed filing for bankruptcy
• Liability claims against a body of a company

Domestic and international mergers and acquisitions play a decisive role in advising our clients. Based on interdisciplinary collaboration with several experts and international co-operation partners we are able to give advice to our clients from one source. Our specific know-how in the individual sectors is used in the following areas:

• Preparation and negotiation of term sheets
• Implementation and supervision of due diligence trials
• Preparation and negotiation of shareholders’ agreement and corporate action
• Preparation and negotiation of sale contracts and participation agreements

It is not enough to have excellent judicial knowledge while supporting clients in judicial and arbitrational trials. For a striking success it is vital to have the necessary experience with the courts and in procedural tactics.We have many years of know-how in legal representation of our clients in courts throughout Germany and also in domestic and international arbitrations within complex litigation matters, often related to cross-border circumstances.

Even in a time of crisis our clients can rely on our professional and comprehensive advice in restructuring. Shareholders, bodies of companies, banks, suppliers, creditors and investors rely on us for example in the following topics:

• Negotiations with creditors and banks
• Preparation and implementation of restructuring concepts
• Negotiations with investors
• Drafting and negotiation of participation agreements
• Debt equity swaps
• Distressed mergers
• Advice in restructuring
• Reconcilement with insolvency practitioners

Corporate management is an exciting challenge, just as planning and implementation of corporate succession is. We can offer our clients’ businessmen an excellent symbiosis of expertise in inheritance law and corporate law. We advise especially in the following areas:

• Development and preparation of succession concepts, e.g. trusts and estates
• Implementation of inheritance law and corporate law
• family-owned companies
• Preparation of wills

Contracts are the very foundation of the economy. Drafting and applying contracts not only require a specific know-how, but furthermore negotiation skills and assertiveness.

We help our clients for example with the following contract-related tasks:

• Conception and advice
• Drafting
• Negotiation
• Examination and assessment
• Enforcement