Corporate Law, M&A

Our practice area “Corporate Law, M&A” offers comprehensive legal services in all corporate finance and company law matters.

Our clients include multinational corporations, domestic industrialists and financial institutions, as well as sponsors and co-investors in private equity transactions. We also advise creditors and companies in bankruptcy and reorganisation proceedings.

Our team has been involved in structuring major joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, reorganisations of companies and liquidations.

The activities of our team also include negotiating and drafting all required documentation in these transactions including shareholders' agreements, share option schemes, organisation of corporate governance, corporate due diligence, loan agreements, debt obligations, intercreditor and security arrangements. We furthermore provide corporate secretarial services to companies.

Our expertise includes the financing and refinancing of businesses (recapitalisation, debt financing), business restructuring and group reorganisations.

Our involvement in M&A transactions includes cross-border acquisitions, private equity acquisitions, tender offers, leveraged and management buy-outs and take-overs.

In the private equity industry, our assistance ranges from the classical structuring and organisation of private investment funds to the acquisition and financing of businesses. We also implement executive compensation and ownership schemes.

We advise our clients on international corporate and tax structures in a joint approach and in close collaboration with our colleagues from the practice area “Tax Law”.