Corporate and Business Law / M&A

M&A / transactions

Our Mergers & Acquisitions team provides personal, pragmatic, and efficient advice to national and international companies, as well as entrepreneurs, on all types of transactions within the context of succession planning.

Specifically, we support you in the following areas:

• Structuring and implementing transactions
• Legal due diligence
• Editing and negotiating contracts and transaction documents
• Procurement of permits, approvals, and tax rulings
• Organization of contract signing and execution
• Legal integration issues

Our M&A specialists work closely with teams from other fields, including IT/IP, taxation, competition and labor law. We are always focused on a pragmatic and cost-effective solution for our clients.

Our clients include both buyers and sellers, namely private and listed companies, strategic investors and financial investors, management teams within the framework of MBO or MBI, and entrepreneurs who want to manage their succession. We work closely with our network of selected foreign law firms to deal with specific aspects of cross-border issues.

We have particular experience in the following transaction types:

• Acquisitions and spin-offs
• Auctions
• Succession planning
• Mergers and divisions
• Reorganizations/restructuring
• Private equity and venture capital
• Joint ventures and cooperations
• Cross-border transactions

Corporate law

Our advice relates to the following fields, among others:

• Founding companies and establishing branches
• Structuring, financing, restructuring, and refinancing of companies and businesses
• Shareholders’ agreements, transfer agreements
• Establishing organizational structures, including organizational rules, committee charters, (global) directives concerning management transactions, insider trading, competencies and signature regulations, data protection, anti-corruption, etc.
• Governance issues, in particular corporate governance and corporate (social) responsibility issues (including drafting/auditing business and corporate governance reports)
• General meetings of listed and private companies: Invitation, script, scenario book, coordination with the share register, taking minutes, independent proxy voting
• Duties and liability of members of the Board of Directors and the Executive Board
• Employment contracts of senior executives; termination agreements
• Succession planning
• Support for start-ups