Areas of expertise
We advise in selected areas of civil law. Our core competences include:
We advise buyers and sellers in all aspects of acquisitions and corporate investments. Our clients include financial investors, strategic buyers, managers and entrepreneurs. We provide for example advice on buyouts, venture capital financing rounds and succession planning.
- Advice to Bilfinger Venture Capital GmbH as lead-investor in the series A financing round of Berlin-based startup yetu AG
- Advice to the shareholders of Aberle Automation GmbH & Co. KG, a leading supplier for customized automation and intralogistic solutions for industrial and logistic systems, on the sale of the company to Körber Process Solutions GmbH, a company of the globally active Körber-group
- Advice on the implementation of extensive post-acquisition measures following the acquisition of a leading German specialist clinic group by one of the most significant German private equity funds
- Advice to CMP Capital Management-Partners GmbH on the sale of the Rebhan Group to BayernLB Private Equity
- Advice to the sellers of inform solutions GmbH, a provider of security solutions for financial institutes, to a strategic acquirer from France
- Advice on the purchase of a medical engineering company
- Advice to BEU Berliner Energie Umweltfonds GbR, Vattenfall Europe Innovation GmbH and GDF SUEZ Energie Deutschland AG from the 3rd to the 6th financing round of Sulfurcell Solartechnik GmbH, including the 4th financing round over 85 million Euro
- Advice to KBB Kollektorbau GmbH, the German market leader in the solar collector production, in the second financing round of the company
- Advice to the buyers of the IT-subsidiary company “Itellium” of the insolvent Arcandor group by way of a restructuring through an asset deal
- Advice to a US company of the electrical industry sector regarding the sale of a German subsidiary
- Advice to the purchaser in connection with the acquisition of the production companies of a Europe show production
- Advice to a family office in acquiring a portfolio of shareholdings
We advise our clients on all aspects of corporate law. We assist companies and their shareholders over the entire life cycle: from its foundation over the stage of growth until exit – with all relevant issues on this path such as equity financing, structural changes, compliance, officers’ liability (including D & O insurance), dismissal of managers, exclusion of shareholders, reorganization, succession planning and mergers & acquisitions.
- Ongoing advice to one of the most significant German private equity fund
- Advice to a Chief Executive Officer of a listed company in connection with the termination of his employment contract and damage claims filed against him
- Advice to a medium-sized company in the service sector in a comprehensive restructuring process including complex agreements between shareholders
- Convening and conduct of an extraordinary general meeting of a listed German stock corporation at the request of a minority shareholder
- Advice to the minority shareholder of a joint venture in connection with the liquidation and distribution of proceeds of a wind farm developer
- Advice to the management in connection with their participation in the management participation program in context of a corporate sale (leveraged buyout)
- Advice to a financial investor regarding the structuring and implementation of management participation programs
We have extensive experience with the conduct of complex litigations, both before state courts and before arbitral tribunals. These include disputes in corporate law and following acquisitions (post M&A litigation), but also in commercial law. We have experience with various institutional arbitration proceedings (DIS, AAA) and ad-hoc proceedings. We are regularly appointed as arbitrators.
- Representation of a seller in arbitration proceedings in the amount of 25 million EUR following a corporate sale (Secondary Buy Out) for alleged breach of warranty and failure to disclose information
- Representation of managers in arbitration proceedings in connection with a management participation program in the amount of 5 million EUR (Rollover Shares)
- Representation of a mechanical engineering company in arbitration proceedings in the amount of 120 million USD due to the delivery of an allegedly defective industrial plant
- Arbitration proceedings relating to the exclusion of a shareholder of a biotech company
- Defending of a Norwegian industrial company following the acquisition of a German special machines manufacturer towards additional purchase price claims of the seller in the double-digit million Euro range
- Advising a German infrastructure company in enforcing damage claims arising from contractual guarantees due to a failure to disclose material information in connection with the acquisition of a company
- Representation of two partners of a national accounting and consulting company regarding a shareholders’ dispute, particularly prevention of a threatened exclusion as shareholders by way of preliminary injunction
- Representation of a Dutch engineering company in an independent procedure for taking of evidence and the subsequent proceedings due to the requested rescission of the sale and purchase contract and raised claims for damages
- Defense of a Dutch engineering company regarding delivery of an allegedly defective plant for the production of food