Main Areas of Activity

Main Areas of Activity

  • Corporate Law
  • Merger, Acquisitions and Joint Ventures
  • Asset - and Project Finance
  • Banking and Capital Markets
  • Dispute Resolution (Arbitration and Litigation)
  • Asset Tracing and Recovery

Corporate Law

  • Company formation.
  • Drafting shareholders' agreements.
  • Capital increases and decreases.
  • Appointment and dismissal of managing directors and board members.
  • Preparation of shareholders' resolutions.
  • Expulsion and replacement of shareholders.
  • Sale, assignment and pledging of shares in the company.
  • Dissolution and liquidation.
  • Information proceedings.
  • Shareholder disputes.

Mergers, Acquisitions and Joint Venturess 

  • Drafting NDA´s.
  • Assistance with bidding procedures.
  • Drafting of process letters and LOI´s.
  • Supervision of due diligence on the buyer and seller side.
  • Drafting and negotiating of SPA´s and APA`s.
  • Support in the closing of transactions (monitoring of compliance with closing conditions; closing bible; notarisation; release procedures with public bodies).
  • Drafting and negotiating Joint Venture agreements.
  • Post closing litigation and arbitration.

Asset- and Project Finance

  • Advising on project and acquisition finance with a focus on energy and infrastructure projects including renewable energy (solar power plants, onshore and offshore wind farm projects).
  • Advice on development finance, including obtaining export credit and investment guarantees.
  • Advice on compliance with IFC Performance Standards for Environmental and Social Sustainability (ESS).
  • Review of project rights.
  • Drafting and negotiating project and project finance contracts (see also sector focus "Energy and Renewables” and "Infrastructure").

Banking and Capital Markets Law

  • Banking regulation
  • Bank contract law
  • Credit contract law
  • Securities trading, custody business, investment business, syndicate/issuing business including foreign business
  • Prospectus law
  • Asset management and safekeeping of assets
  • Trust administration
  • Prevention of money laundering
  • Liability issues
  • Litigation

[Translate to English:] Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht

Abritation and Litigation

  • Representation before private and institutional arbitral tribunals (e.g. DIS, ICC, LCIA and ICSID).
  • Representation in exequatur proceedings for the recognition of the enforceability of arbitral awards in Germany.
  • Representation before German courts in civil disputes other than labour law including summary proceedings (arrest and injunction).
  • Representation in application proceedings for recognition under the Brussels I Regulation and Brussels Ia Regulation.
  • Representation in constitutional complaint proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court.
  • Representation in proceedings before the Courts of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights.

[Translate to English:] Verfolgung und Wiederherstellung von Vermögenswerten

Asset tracing and Recovery

  • Initiation of state enforcement measures (seizure of movable property and claims, statement of assets, proceedings for third-party information, enforcement of rights in rem, etc.).
  • Execution of creditor challenges (action for annulment; action in stages; attachment).
  • Representation in insolvency proceedings.
  • Representation in adhesion proceedings.
  • Assistance in cross-border enforcement proceedings in cooperation with foreign lawyers and European authorities.

[Translate to English:] Schiedsverfahren & Rechtsstreitigkeiten