We advise domestic and foreign companies, shareholders, investment banks and other financial institutions on capital-market transactions and financing.

• Transformation and Group structure
• Corporate audits/due diligence
• Plausibility check for business plans
• Initial public offerings, dual listings and secondary placement
• Admission of shares
• Withdrawal from the market (public to private)
• Change of market segment
• The usual legal opinions
• Takeover of listed companies and defense against attempted takeovers
• Squeezing out minority shareholders
• Legal challenges and shareholder compensation claims
• Preparation and implementation of shareholders’ meetings, including back-office support
• Corporate actions, bond issues, profit-sharing rights
• Duties following issuance, including disclosure requirements
• Corporate governance
• Civil and criminal liability of managing board and Supervisory Board members, D&O insurance
• Insider trading law and director’s dealings
• Laws regarding share-limited associations (“KGaA”)
• European corporate forms

Berlin: Dr. Christoph Spiering, LL.M. >>

Frankfurt am Main: Dr. Torsten Fett >>

Bratislava: Mgr. Zuzana Špániková >>

Düsseldorf: Dr. Alexander Hirsch >>

Frankfurt am Main: Dr. Holger Alfes, LL.M. >>

Frankfurt am Main: Dr. Laurenz Wieneke, LL.M. >>

Moscow: Dr. Ilja Ratschkov, LL.M. >>

Munich: Dr. Tobias Bürgers >>

Munich: Dr. Gerald Reger >>