Corporate, Banking and Capital Markets Law

Structuring, implementing and securing solutions – legally sound and commercially grounded.

Our Approach to Corporate, Banking and Capital Markets

Responsive, Personal, Reliable

We value close personal exchange and remain readily available to our clients. We represent our clients’ interests with integrity and reliability – and, where necessary, also in contentious matters.
Precise, Strategic, Commercial

We combine legal precision with economic understanding and provide strategic, practical and solution-oriented advice – both domestically and internationally.
Practical, Responsible, Efficient

Your time matters. We develop concrete solutions and take responsibility for their implementation, creating the freedom our clients need for entrepreneurial decision-making.

Key Areas in Corporate, Banking and Capital Markets

We advise with an entrepreneurial mindset, strategic perspective and a clear focus on practical solutions – in company formations and restructurings, in transactions and financings, on compliance and corporate governance matters, and in capital markets measures. We represent clients in corporate, banking and capital markets disputes with determination and with the clear objective of protecting their interests.

Our lawyers are annually recommended in the JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien and recognized by Handelsblatt as among Germany’s Best Lawyers.

Formation and Acquisition

Company formations
Company acquisition (M&A – buyer side)
Acquisition of minority and majority shareholdings
Joint Ventures

Corporate Governance and Organisation

Corporate governance for management boards, supervisory boards, managing directors and advisory boards
Compliance
Corporate housekeeping
Shareholder rights and shareholder disputes
Shareholder and investment agreements (venture capital)
Corporate reorganisations and transformations (e.g. mergers, demergers, conversions)
Corporate group structures
Family and corporate governance issues
Corporate restructuring and turnaround

Sale and Succession

Sale of companies (M&A – seller side)
Business succession planning

Restructuring and Liquidation

Corporate restructuring and insolvency
Corporate dissolution, liquidation and deregistration

Banking Law

Advice on loan and financing agreements
Advice on security arrangements, in particular guarantees, sureties and letters of comfort
Support in complex financing structures and financing vehicles
Advice on banking regulatory and supervisory matters
Support in day-to-day banking compliance matters
Negotiation of outsourcing agreements with service providers in compliance with banking regulatory requirements (including MaRisk, BAIT and DORA)
Advice on the implementation of PSD2 requirements and applications for regulatory exemptions

Capital Markets Law

• Support in annual general meetings of listed companies
• Advice on ad hoc disclosure, insider law and other disclosure obligations
• Advice on remuneration systems, corporate governance and compliance matters
• Support in capital measures and investor relations
• Advice on IPOs, segment changes, squeeze-outs, takeover offers and delistings
• Advice on AIFs and other investment products, including regulatory requirements
• Fund structuring and documentation, including distribution and prospectus matters
• Defence against investor claims and complaints