Commercial & corporate law

Almost every day we advise clients on matters of commercial and corporate law. Usually, the issues at hand relate to the following:

 

• 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
• Shareholder agreements and inter-group agreements, contracts with directors and other executives
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• 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

• Interplay with antitrust law
• Interplay with civil procedure law
• Interplay with insolvency law
• Interplay with public law such as money laundering and data protection law
• Interplay with tax law