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We advise companies, shareholders, investors, managing directors, board members and supervisory board members comprehensively on all questions of national and international corporate law. This applies both to structuring advice (structuring, transformations, liability avoidance) and to disputes (shareholder disputes, court disputes, arbitration proceedings).
We are experienced in corporate transactions (including M&A, private equity, venture capital), tax structuring and succession planning.
Together with our specialists in the fields of capital market law, intellectual property law, tax law and antitrust law, we represent your interests in a goal-oriented, assertive and long-term manner.
Good tax advice is the basis for the success of entrepreneurial activity as well as private wealth creation and protection. We advise corporations and partnerships on all aspects of tax structuring and tax planning – both nationally and internationally, including M&A and company acquisitions.
Individuals rely on our expertise in the areas of tax-centered wealth planning, inheritance and asset succession. We provide preventive advice on tax and commercial criminal law (compliance systems) and defend our clients in ongoing criminal investigations and before the criminal courts.
As tax lawyers, we represent our clients in tax audit proceedings and in court proceedings before the fiscal courts and the Federal Fiscal Court.
As advisors to your advisors, we are also involved (and always under client protection) by tax advisors, auditors and legal colleagues in ongoing issues and proceedings for their clients and provide advice to the outside world acting together or in the background.
Intellectual property is the basis of success in many companies. It is therefore advisable to protect this property from product and brand piracy. Our experienced team advises and represents you in all matters relating to intellectual and industrial property and competition law. Thinking strategically, our specialists put themselves in your company’s shoes and ensure that your business success is not jeopardised by the actions of third parties.
In an increasingly regulated business world, compliance with regulatory requirements is crucial. Our lawyers have in-depth expertise in regulatory law and can provide you with tailored advice. We help companies understand and implement the many requirements and regulations in the area of regulatory law. Our services range from advising on compliance issues and assisting with authorisation procedures to representing your interests in dealings with supervisory authorities. We specialise in navigating companies through the often complex and constantly changing legal framework.
CORPORATE
Not only for reorganisation: Dept to Equity Swap
A company is in crisis. The financing servicing is at risk, and refinancing through banks is difficult due to the existing financing structure. In simple terms, the idea of swaps is to exchange debt for equity without raising additional funds: the creditor deposits his claim against the company in the company and receives shares in this company in return. The debt-to-equity swap is a long-established and proven option for corporate reorganization in the USA and England, which has also been gaining importance in Germany for 15 years.
Christoph Schmitz-Schunken
COMMERCIAL
Agreements on the place of jurisdiction for cross-border sales of goods (B2B) – made (easier)
The effectiveness of jurisdiction agreements in international legal relations is a perennial issue in litigation. Many mistakes are made in this area, primarily out of ignorance. Such mistakes can have considerable financial consequences, as the choice of jurisdiction is of crucial procedural and economic importance in international legal relations. Unfortunately, it is often not (only) the applicable law that is decisive in a dispute but the choice of the proper court.
Christoph Schmitz-Schunken
TAX
Gifting and bequeathing real estate will become significantly more expensive from 01.01.2023!
Christoph Schmitz-Schunken
CORPORATE
External liability
Basics of liability cases and lawsuits against GmbH managing directors
Christoph Schmitz-Schunken
CORPORATE
Internal liability
Basics of liability cases and lawsuits against GmbH managing directors
Christoph Schmitz-Schunken