Company and corporate law
With our many years of experience and the specific knowledge of our staff in this area, we advice our clients in all stages of entrepreneurial activity, from setting up a business to succession planning. We offer guidance on all restructuring issues, such as changes in legal form, spin-offs and mergers as well as the acquisition and sale of companies, stock listings and acquisition processes.
As MELCHERS pursues an interdisciplinary approach, a tax-optimized design of our solutions to company problems and issues is of particular importance to us. However, we never forget that the design of company issues normally involves a large number of other complex legal an material problems in addition to tax matters which need to be solved with due regard to all interests This applies, in particular, to the company owner's succession planning where not only tax and company law matters need to be resolved, but also aspects of inheritance and family law have to be duly considered.
In addition to company and corporate law consulting, our specialists are also able to provide highly qualified counseling on all neighboring fields of law, especially national and European antitrust law as well as individual and collective labor law.
We assist our clients with both individual transactions and permanent company counseling. We also defend their interests in court, including civil matters, arbitration proceedings or commercial register cases.
Our clients include shareholders and companies. They range in size from small family-owned enterprises up to listed stock corporations.
- Formation of companies and design of company agreements
- Restructuring, conversions
- Counseling of buyers and sellers on company acquisitions
- Venture Capital and Private Equity financing
- Conceptualization and prospectus generation for investment funds
- Counseling in connection with public offerings
- Planning and design of successions
- Counseling regarding organizational structure and corporate-governance
- Disputes within a company
- Company-law related civil proceedings and arbitration proceedings
