Corporate Finance

In our corporate finance practice, we seamlessly integrate our expertise in Banking & Finance with our knowledge of commercial and corporate law.

Typically, our commercial and corporate practice revolves around questions such as:

• Contracts and non-binding arrangements concerning the initiation of business deals
• Confidentiality Agreements / Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs)
• Letters of Intent (LoIs)
• Heads of agreement, term sheets
• Preliminary contracts (Vorverträge)
• Joint ventures
• Equity joint ventures based on partnerships or corporate entities
• Contractual joint ventures
• Partnerships
• Partnerships under civil law (Gesellschaften bürgerlichen Rechts), general partnerships (Offene Handelsgesellschaften), limited partnerships (Kommdanditgesellschaften), in particular in the form of GmbH & Co. KGs
• European Economic Interest Groupings (EEIGs)
• Corporations
• Private limited companies (GmbHs) including limited liability enterprises (UGs)
• Public limited companies (AGs)
• Partnerships limited by shares (KGaAs), also referred to as GmbH & Co. KGaA
• English companies limited by shares
• Shareholder agreements and inter-group agreements, contracts with directors and other executives
• Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital, particularly in connection with Management Buy-Outs
• Mergers, spin-offs and other transformations
• Purchase of goods B2C and B2B
• General Terms and Conditions of Sale
• General Terms and Conditions of Purchase
• Distribution Agreements
• Distribution consultancy agreements
• Commercial agency agreements
• Dealership agreements
• Franchise agreements
• Antitrust law implications
• Implications for civil litigation
• Implications of insolvency and enforcement laws
• Implications of regulations on money laundering and data protection
• Tax ramifications