Heidelberg
- Construction law & real estate
- Real estate
- Project planning
- Realisation
- Conflict resolution
- Seminars & training courses
- References
- Legal Due Diligence
- Land, condominium and part ownership, heritable building rights: creation and transactions
- Hedging instruments
- Condominium ownership
- Project development
- Property purchase
- Advice on public tenders, PPP projects
- Federal State Building Order (approval of construction projects/bringing the intended project to the knowledge of the building authority, neighborhood protection, pollution control, preservation statute and protection of historical monuments)
- Claim management and defence against amendments
- Warranty management
- Defence against claims
- Preservation of evidence
- Interlocutory relief
- Seminars and (inhouse) training courses in all mentioned fields of competence
- Project planning
- Construction law & real estate
- Conflict resolution
- Strategic consulting & conflict strategies
- Private Clients
- Energy
- Enterprises / Corporate & Commercial
- Economy & State - Public law
- Gaming & Betting Law Practice Group
- Gaming & betting
- Advice on regulation of land-based casinos
- Construction & planning
- Environment & waste management
- Infrastructure: air, rail & road
- Public enterprises & municipalities
- Procurement & Public Private Partnership
- Grants & subsidies
- European law & international law
- Legislative procedures
- Litigation & representation before authorities
- Representation before local, state and federal authorities as well as before arbitral courts, German and European courts
- Advice on and support in coping with legislative bodies and political organisations, observation and analysis of political developments during the legislative process
- Drafting of argumentation lines and statements in the context of participation in the political decision-making process
- Draft of initiative presentations within the lobbying work of industries and associations
- From old to new, protection of historical monuments
- Finance & capital market law
- Regulatory advice
- Representation in dealing with supervisory authorities
- Outsourcing of parts of the business
- Approval procedures for credit and financial service institutions
- Establishment of compliance systems and internal security procedures
- Alternative means ofpayment (for example bitcoins, payment cards)
- Stock & capital market
- Liability for inappropriate investment counseling
- Design and review of (security) prospectus
- Preparation and support of bond issues and initial public offerings
- Mezzanine financing
- Bank contract law
- Credit contracts and syndication
- Credit and payment securities
- Financing of acquisitions and collateralisation
- Sector-specific contract conditions
- Litigation & Arbitration
- Facility management
- Energy saving contracting
- Development of building areas, advice on development and land use planning including project and development plans, preparation and negotiation of urban development contracts
- Advice on urban development and restructuring measures
- Advice on the project and award structure under private law and on contract models
- Drafting and review of project and construction contracts (architects, consortium, property developers, building contractors, BIM, energy saving contracting, general planners, general transferee, general contractors, GMP contracts, prefabricated housing sector, FIDIC, engineers, PPP models, project developers, project controllers, subcontractors)
- Preparation and execution of tenders under private law
- Support in contract negotiations
- Construction related and strategic support, mainly with regard to large-scale construction projects and plant construction (for example construction of power plants, industrial plants) as well as securing and asserting receivables
- Examination of supplements and justification
- Advice on receivables due to construction delays
- Support in a crises, for example in case of loss of construction parties
- Criminal construction law (anti-competitive agreements, illegal employment, construction hazards, environmental crimes, fraud and embezzlement in accounting)
- Preparation and supervision of the acceptance
- Audit of partial and final invoices
- Utilisation
- Drafting of commercial rental and leasing contracts
- Design of sale and rent-back/lease-back models
- Support in contract negotiations, termination and questions regarding current leasing
- Conflict avoidance through contract design
- Strategic advice in the event of conflict
- Remuneration, supplements and prosecution of material defects
- Objections of neighbouring parties and opposition proceedings
- Official conflict management, e.g. construction shutdown
- Judicial review proceedings, allocation complaint and review procedures
- Ordinary jurisdiction, arbitration, ombudsman proceedings and other conciliation procedures including arbitration agreements
- Consultation of an energy infrastructural company acting across Europe with more than 12.000 employees and an annual business volume of approximately 2 billion Euros
- Extensive counseling of a Bundesliga soccer club in its implementation of a training center for young talents including its financing by a fan bond
- Support of a paper manufacturer with the tender, contractual negotiation (with international dimension) and the installation of paper machine with heating and power station. Total investment volume: approx. 600 million Euros
- Legal assistance of the architects ordered with the planning of the construction project “Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein”, construction volume approx. 520 million Euros
- Legal advice of the Entwicklungsgesellschaft Heidelberg with regard to the development of the new part of town called “Bahnstadt” in Heidelberg. The total investment volume amounts to more than 2 billion Euros
- Energy plant construction
- Goal-oriented execution of land use planning procedures and approval procedures
- Allocation of planning and construction orders
- Advice during a construction project
- Legal advice around subsidies
- Infrastructural measures
- Goal-oriented execution of land use planning procedures and approval procedures
- Allocation of planning and construction orders
- Advice during a construction project
- Legal advice around subsidies
- Networks
- Planning, allocation and construction of networks
- Counseling with regard to scenarios and network development plans
- Goal-oriented execution of land use planning procedures and approval procedures
- Network access, network charge
- Energy contracting
- Draft and negotiation of contracting agreements for process heat and electricity
- Construction and operation of generating plants
- Easements and heritage building rights
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Grid connection, electricity feed and financial support
- Energy saving contracting for industry and municipalities
- Licenses
- Granting of energy licenses
- Drafting and negotiating of simple and qualified easement agreements pursuant to the law on the energy industry
- Advising of energy supply companies and municipalities
- Energy contract law
- Drafting and negotiating of gas and electricity supply contracts for industry and trade
- Drafting and negotiating of supply contracts referring to process heat and district heating supply
- Fuel supply contracts, disposal of power plant residues
- Drafting and negotiating of fuel supply contracts including price adjustment clauses, fuel specifications and sampling provisions
- Drafting and negotiating of disposal contracts for power plant residues
- Advice on the Closed Cycle Waste Management Act and Landfill Ordinance
- Renewable energies
- Goal-oriented implementation of planning and approval procedures
- Assigning planning and construction contracts
- Grid connection, electricity feed, direct marketing and financial support according to the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG)
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Acquisition, sale and restructuring of supply companies
- Due diligence
- Drafting and negotiating of share purchase agreements
- Operational transfer in accordance with § 613a BGB (German Civil Code)
- Antitrust advice
- Investment consulting, participation in energy plants (parks) and grids
- Litigation, arbitration and representation before authorities
- Advising and support in planning approval procedures and licensing procedures including public involvement (participation in discussion meetings)
- Counseling regarding objections against planned projects, opposition and claim against licenses and licensing conditions
- Acting for citizens’ initiatives
- Handling of arbitration proceedings as arbitrator or counsel
- Conducting legal action before administrative courts and the ordinary courts including interlocutory relief
- Advice on gaming hall / AWP regulations
- Advice on regulation of betting shops
- Advice on online casino and sports betting
- Advice on the legal framework for fantasy betting
- Advice on regulation of horse betting
- Advice on legal framework for social gaming
- Advice on regulation of lotteries and bingo
- Advice on gambling-related payment solutions
- Strategic advice regarding future trends
- Licensing & compliance
- Casino licensing procedures
- Arcade and gaming hall concessions
- Advice on betting shop concessions
- Sports betting licensing process
- Brokering licences for online lotteries
- AML compliance
- Legal support in day-to-day operations (e.g. regarding customer support)
- Accreditation of age verification tools with German authorities
- Accreditation of test labs with gambling regulators
- Lobbying
- Lobby work with gambling regulators
- Foundation of trade groups
- Representation of gambling companies in trade groups
- Lobby work with European Commission
- Lobby work with tax authorities
- Litigation
- Administrative procedure
- Interstate Treaty restrictions & interdictions
- Interlocutory relief
- Legal defence against player claims
- Legal representation in German supreme courts & constitutional courts
- Commercial
- Establishment of local companies
- Due diligence for gambling-related M&A transactions
- Advertising and contracts
- Trademark issues and litigation
- Advice on competition law risks
- Terms & Conditions
- Tax advice
- Taxation of land-based casinos & gaming halls
- Sports betting tax
- Taxation of online casinos including VAT
- Lottery tax
- Tax registration and reporting
- Tax litigation
- Legal defence against prosecution of tax crimes
- Intellectual property / media / advertising & PR
- Trademarks & patents
- Draft of property right strategies
- Application and control of trademarks and other property rights
- Delimitation and prior rights agreements
- Enforcement of trademarks and industrial property rights
- Defence of trademark and patent infringements
- Launch of new products
- National and international technology transfer
- Purchase and sale of property rights
- Trademark license agreements and other property right licenses
- Patent agreements and know-how license agreements
- Copyright & design law
- Copyright agreements, publishing contracts
- Draft of agreements regarding multimedia analysis
- Artists‘ contracts and producers‘ contracts
- Concert and show contracts
- Advertising music contracts
- Design contracts and utility model licenses
- Enforcement of copyrights
- Defence against copyright infringements and product imitations
- Launch of new products
- Competition law
- Preparation of advertising and merchandising measures
- Representation in disputes regarding competition law
- Interim injunctions in order to enforce competitive legal positions
- Caveat against unauthorized use by competitors
- Protection against counterfeiting and misappropriation
- Protection against misleading and comparing advertising
- Antitrust law
- Purchase cooperations, distribution cooperations
- Distribution antitrust law
- Conception of selective distribution systems
- Control of online distribution, price competition on the internet
- Research and development cooperations
- Cartels of medium-size enterprises and other cooperations
- Draft of contracts considering antitrust law
- Defence against the exploitation of market power, delivery blocks
- Registration of mergers
- Representation before the Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission
- Press & Media
- Coordination and negotiations with media representatives
- „Strategic press law“ – preparation to the media crises and strategic support after publication
- Press releases and interviews with press, radio and TV journalists
- Enforcement of injunctive relieves due to insult, defamation
- Counterstatements, revocations/corrections, damages
- Advertising & public relations
- Preparation of advertising and merchandising measures
- Individual advertising for customers and future customers
- Examination of advertising measures, compliance
- Advertising agencies
- Agreements with advertising parties
- Sponsoring agreements
- Litigation
- Infringement trials
- Summary proceedings, interim injunctions
- Opposition proceedings
- Annulment proceedings
- IT & data protection
- IT & E-Commerce
- Draft of contracts concerning development, distribution, licensing and maintenance of software and hardware
- IT projects
- Outsourcing/shared services
- Set-up and design of e-commerce platforms
- Data protection
- Data protection compliance within the company’s organisation
- Data protection concerning marketing and distribution
- Data protection concerning labour law (private use of operational means, internal investigations, shared-services)
- Cloud computing
- Advice and representation in case of infringements of data protection
- Litigation & arbitration
- Handling of failed IT projects
- Prior to a conflict: Drafting of jurisdiction and choice of law clauses as well as of arbitration agreements
- Analysis of facts and legal situation in case of a potential conflict
- Assessment of process, liability and cost risks
- Creation of a negotiation position and of solution proposals
- Advice, support and representation in negotiations with the opposing party
- Litigation & arbitration
- Litigation in state courts (except before the Federal Court of Justice in civil matters)
- Evidence securing procedures
- Arbitration proceedings before institutional or ad hoc arbitral courts
- Proceedings before public procurement courts
- Interlocutory relief & legal enforcement
- Interim injunction
- Interim order
- Arrest
- Default action
- Compulsory execution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution - ADR
- Mediation
- Arbitrator's report, activity as arbitrator
- Conciliation proceedings
- Representation before authorities & preliminary procedures
- Administrative procedures
- Opposition proceedings
- Public participation procedure
- Review procedures
- Administrative offense proceedings and administrative fine proceedings
- Criminal proceedings
- Cross-border legal disputes
- Advice and representation of foreign clients in Germany
- Support in proceedings before foreign courts
- Providing contacts of specialized law firms abroad
- Acknowledgment proceedings and enforcement of foreign judgments in Germany
- Notary’s office in Berlin
- Real estate law
- Purchase & sale of land, home and partial ownerships, lease holds
- Registration of mortgages
- Plot division
- Creation of lease holds
- Family and inheritance law
- Marriage contracts and „consequences of divorce agreements“
- Last wills and inheritance contracts
- Applications of certificates of inheritance & refusals of inheritance
- Estate inventory
- Adoptions
- Business and corporate law
- Foundation of partnerships and corporations
- Conversion, mergers & liquidation
- Registrations in the commercial register
- Preparation of the lists to be presented by the commercial register
- General civil law
- Powers of attorney
- Promissory letters
- Certificates
- Affidavits
- Notarisations & authentication
- Raffles & draws
- Labour law / HR
- Recruiting, drafting of employment contracts, current employment
- Legal aspects of personnel recruitment, selection and hiring of personnel
- Employment contracts and connected agreements
- Fixed-term employment law (fixed-term employment with or without a material reason, fixed-term employment beyond retirement age)
- Variable payment (target agreements, royalties, commissions, bonuses, long- and short-term incentives, employee participation)
- Variable working hours (flexible work time, capacity-oriented work time, trust-based working hours, working hours accounts)
- Part-time work inside and outside parental leave, care and family leave, sabbaticals
- Corporate integration management
- Written warnings
- Notice of terminations, cancellation and winding-up agreements
- References
- Employment of temporary workers
- Work contracts, service contracts, avoidance of bogus self-employment
- Supply of temporary workers
- Management contracts
- Transactions, restructuring & reorganisation
- Due diligence concerning labour law
- Negotiation and draft of transfer of or change in operations
- Draft of new operational structures
- Adjustment and draft of working conditions and payment structures
- Staff reduction measures (reconciliation of interests, social plans, collective redundancies, actions for dismissal protection)
- Works council, economic committee, personnel council, employee representation, representation of severely disabled persons
- Advice of enterprises without a works council (employee communication without works council, alternative employee representation, advice on questions regarding the initiation or avoidance of the establishment of a works council)
- Establishment of a works council, works council elections, appeal against works council elections
- Constructive cooperation with the works council (communication with the works council, right to information of the works council, monthly meetings, works council meetings, works council training, cost for works council training etc.)
- Limits to constructive cooperation: exclusion of individual works council members or dissolution of the works council due to gross breaches of duty; termination of works council members
- Advice and support in all questions of co-determination of the works council under works constitution law (e.g. recruitment, transfer, dismissal, working time models, overtime, remuneration, data processing, employee monitoring, social media etc.)
- Negotiation and drafting of works agreements and ( in-house ) collective agreements
- Negotiation of reconciliations of interest and social plans in case of restructuring and lay-offs
- Representation and support of the employer in conciliation bodies
- Representation and support of the employer in other disputes with the works council outside and in court
- Advising the employer on how to deal with the representative body for severely handicapped persons
- Matters regarding board and managing directors
- Draft of service agreements for management and board members as well as for executives, draft of rules of procedure for board members and management
- Negotiation and draft of separation agreements
- Termination of the employment contract and litigation in the termination and compensation process
- Drafting agreements on non-compete and post-contractual non-compete clauses; representation in litigation, in particular interim injunctions for omission of competition
- Directors & Officers Liability and D&O insurance
- Company pension
- Deferred compensation
- Restructuring of existing and introduction of new pension models (choice of the pension model: direct pension, direct insurance, support fund, pension funds, etc.)
- Adjustment or denial of the adjustment of company pensions pursuant to § 16 BetrAVG
- Social security
- Employment of temporary workers, assignment of workers, freelance contributor models and avoidance of bogus self-employment and bogus work agreement
- Managers subject to social security
- International social insurance for secondments or parallel activities in several host countries
- Litigation & arbitration
- Representation in all individual and collective disputes before the labor courts (labor court, regional labor court, federal labor court) and, in particular in disputes between managing directors and board members and the company, the ordinary courts (regional court, higher regional court, representation before the Federal Supreme Court)
- Support and representation of the employer in the conciliation committee
- International labour law
- Design of cross-border employee assignments (labour, social security and residence permit law, inbound and outbound)
- Advice of German subsidiaries of international companies
- Advice of German clients with regard to foreign subsidiaries
- Cross-border restructuring
- Succession planning & donation
- Succession counselling and planning, support in family internal communication
- Anticipated inheritance, draft of donation agreements
- Draft of testamentary dispositions (wills, inheritance contracts)
- Agreements on waiver of compulsory share
- Establishment of foundations, donations
- Clarification and draft of succession issues under private international law
- Inheritance distribution and execution of a will
- Inheritance proceedings
- Precautionary documents
- Precautionary power
- Care directive
- Patient directive
- Marriage agreements
- Marriage agreement
- Cohabitation agreement
- Partnership agreement
- General company law
- Conception and establishment of companies
- Articles of association and shareholder agreements
- Amendments to the articles of association, capital measures
- Design of the organisational structure and advice on corporate governance issues
- Preparation and support of shareholders' meetings and annual general meetings, resolution deficiency proceedings
- Internal company disputes
- Liquidation of companies
- Advice for start-ups
- Corporate housekeeping
- Restructuring & reorganisation
- Change of legal form
- Mergers
- Demergers, in particular spin-offs and split-offs of parts of companies
- Creation of holding structures
- Intercompany agreements and other group legal relationships
- Restructuring & insolvency
- Advice close to insolvency
- Design and support of redevelopment concepts
- Preparation and support of insolvency plan procedures
- Counseling of creditors, management and shareholders
- Insolvency administration
- Company succession
- Succession counselling and planning, support in family internal communication
- Draft of testamentary dispositions (wills, inheritance contracts)
- Adaptation of articles of association to the needs of succession planning
- Restructuring of companies and group of companies with regard to succession planning
- Establishment of foundations, donations
- Clarification and draft of succession issues under international private law
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Support of company acquisitions on the buyer and seller side, including due diligence reviews and post-M&A disputes
- Venture capital and private equity financings
- Conception and prospectus of investment funds
- Advice in connection with IPOs
- Corporate governance & compliance
- Design of the internal corporate structures
- Allocation of responsibilities
- Rules of procedure
- Representation of companies and managers in matters of managing directors' and board members' liability
- Compliance management systems
- Compliance guidelines and operational instructions
- Advice and representation in case of compliance infringements
- (International) trade
- General terms and conditions
- Non-disclosure agreements
- Commercial purchase
- Distribution law
- E-Commerce
- Law of commercial agents
- Law of authorized dealers
- Freight and forwarding law
- International commercial law
- Foreign trade legislation, export control & embargos
- Antitrust law
- Distribution antitrust law
- Application for exemption from the non-compete obligation
- Drafting contracts under antitrust law aspects
- Notification of mergers/merger control proceedings
- Representation in dealing with the Federal antitrust authorities and the European Commission
- Airlines & aviation
- Claims management
- Cargo transport
- Design of General Conditions of Carriage and General Queries on Flight Handling
- Advice regarding IT and e-commerce
- Advice regarding relationships to Ground Handling Partners (airport operators as for example Fraport AG, Airport Service Companies etc.) and IATA contract system
- Enforcement/defence of claims against third parties
- Labour law
- Right of residence
- Trainings
- Data protection law
- Employee data protection
- Draft and implementation of technical and organisational measures pursuant to the Federal Data Protection Act
- Company organisation in compliance with data protection law, outsourcing
- Development of (also cross-bordered, integrated) CRM data bases
- Direct marketing campaigns, co-marketing, co-branding, social media
- Generation and use of qualified leads/data of interested parties
- Commercial tenancy law
- Drafting of commercial rental and leasing contracts
- Design of sale and rent-back/lease-back models
- Support and accompaniment of contract negotiations, termination and questions of ongoing leases
- Litigation, arbitration & ADR
- Representation before all local, regional and higher regional courts in civil proceedings
- Arbitration proceedings
- Alternative dispute resolution proceedings, for example mediation
- Insurances
- Insurance supervisory
- Insurance supervisory law (inter alia new foundation, entry into the German market, development of new business areas, measures of the supervisory authorities)
- Insurance intermediary law (inter alia license proceedings and registration of insurance intermediaries)
- Insurance products & insurance distribution
- Insurance policy law (inter alia design of group insurance contracts and general terms and conditions)
- Insurance distribution law (inter alia establishment of distribution structures, online-distribution, affiliate marketing)
- Delicate Claims Management
- Anti-money laundering
- Data protection
- Distribution & (international) trade
- Distribution & franchise systems
- Law of commercial agencies
- Authorised dealer law
- Franchise agreements
- Affiliate marketing
- Draft of other distribution structures
- E-Commerce
- Webshops
- Social Media
- Competition law
- Preparation of advertising and merchandising measures
- Representation in disputes regarding competition law
- Distribution cartel law
- Application for exemption from the non-compete obligation
- Drafting contracts under antitrust law aspects
- Notification of mergers
- Representation before the Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission
- Establishing and audits of compliance systems
- Advice on German and European provisions regarding export control and embargos
- Support in licensing proceedings (German Federal Office of Economics and Export Control)
- US-(re) export law
- Foreign trade legislation, export control & embargos
- Draft and negotiation of cross-border supply and service agreements
- General Terms and Conditions
- Draft, examination and implementation of General Terms and Conditions
- Litigation & arbitration
- Advice on the preparation and modification of land use and zoning plans
- Project-related building development plans, drafting and negotiating of urban development contracts (in particular execution contracts) for the purpose of developing a building area or realising large-scale investment projects (retail, commerce, industry, residential and home building)
- Advice on building permit processes and notification procedures
- Execution of and advice on plan approval procedures including participation of the public
- Advice on immission control approval procedures for the purpose of establishing or expanding businesses (industry and commerce, energy facilities, sports facilities, leisure facilities)
- Protection of historical monuments
- Advice on development contributions and municipal levies
- Advice on immission control (in particular noise, odour) in the context of immission control permits, approaching construction or subsequent requirements (in particular defence against production-restricting regulations)
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental liability of companies
- Contaminated sites and soil protection
- Sewage disposal, indirect discharge of commercial and industrial wastewater, advice on and support in licensing procedures of sewage treatment plants, levying of fees and charges
- Waste disposal, draft and negotiation of disposal agreements of commercial and industrial waste including power station residues; advice on and support in licensing procedures
- Waste shipment – requirements under public law and contract law
- Chemicals legislation
- Advice on regional planning, land use and development planning
- Advising project developers as well as municipalities and adjoining residents on the execution of planning approval and licensing procedures [planning, construction and operation of airports, rail networks, (long-distance) road construction].
- Replacement and compensatory measures (nature and landscape), protection requirements
- Advice on the conduct of expropriation procedures
- Advice on the raising of objections, the holding of the discussion hearing and the conduct of litigation proceedings
- Support for tenders for railway tracks and networks
- Award and construction of roads including preparation of PPP and financing models in the road traffic
- Formal privatization of state and municipal companies including due diligence
- Sale of municipal shareholdings
- Conception and structuring of models for the inclusion of private individuals in the fulfilment of public tasks, e.g. in the field of recycling management law, water law or transport infrastructure
- Foundation of mixed-economy enterprises of different legal forms
- Legal support in bidding procedures for the privatisation of public utilities and waste disposal companies as well as the award of service and construction contracts including concessions
- Advice on municipal law in all 16 federal states
- Municipal Tax Law and Development Contribution Law
- Structuring and implementation of national and EU-wide procurement procedures
- Support of public clients and bidders in tenders for construction projects and services as well as concessions (according to GWB, VgV, VOB/A as well as budget law)
- Support for public contracting authorities and bidders in awarding contracts in the sectors of energy (gas, heat, electricity), water and transport services (according to SektVO)
- Advice on the draft of models without procurement (for example inhouse-procurement, horizontal cooperation of public entities, amendment of existing contracts) and in competitive tendering procedures (as architectural competitions) outside procurement law
- Development of PPP and financing models for road traffic and municipal buildings (e.g. day-care centres, schools, fire stations, courts, swimming pools, multi-purpose halls), assistance in investor selection procedures
- Representation of awarding authorities and bidders in procurement review procedures
- Support with grant applications
- Advice on compliance with relevant regulations and requirements for investment grants
- Defence against reclaims for subsidies
- Legal protection in connection with competition lawsuits (enforcement of and defence against corresponding claims)
- European environmental and technology law
- European subsidy law
- Application of EU regulations and effects of EU directives in national law
- Advice to public authorities and investors on transnational projects
- Advice on international treaties (e.g. double taxation agreements, ECHR, WTO agreements, UN Charter, Geneva Convention)
- Seminars & training
- We offer seminars and in-house training courses on all of the aforementioned topics for both public clients and companies.
- White Collar Crime & Tax Criminal Law
- Commercial criminal law
- Preventive advice
- Legal assistance in search and seizure proceedings
- Defence in criminal (investigation) proceedings and administrative offence proceedings
- Tax criminal law
- Preventive advice
- Advice and representation in proceedings for voluntary reporting under criminal tax law
- Legal assistance in search and seizure proceedings
- Defence in criminal (investigation) proceedings and administrative offence proceedings
- Compliance
- Draft of compliance systems
- Creation of compliance rules
- (In-house-) compliance trainings and seminars
- Review of existing compliance systems
- Internal investigations for current reasons or to uncover weaknesses in the company organisation and the compliance system
- Compliance Due Diligence Audit for M&A
- Advice and representation in compliance infringements
- Enforcement of recourse claims
- Litigation
- Defence at all German courts in all instances
- Enforcement of recourse claims by companies against employees in the event of compliance violations
- Energy
- Energy plant construction
- Planning, allocation and construction of networks
- Goal-oriented execution of land use planning procedures and approval procedures
- Allocation of planning and construction orders
- Advice during a construction project
- Legal advice around subsidies
- Infrastructural measures
- Goal-oriented execution of land use planning procedures and approval procedures
- Allocation of planning and construction orders
- Advice during a construction project
- Legal advice around subsidies
- Networks
- Counseling with regard to scenarios and network development plans
- Goal-oriented execution of land use planning procedures and approval procedures
- Network access, network charge
- Energy contracting
- Draft and negotiation of contracting agreements for process heat and electricity
- Construction and operation of generating plants
- Easements and heritage building rights
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Grid connection, electricity feed and financial support
- Energy saving contracting for industry and municipalities
- Licenses
- Granting of energy licenses
- Drafting and negotiating of simple and qualified easement agreements pursuant to the law on the energy industry
- Advising of energy supply companies and municipalities
- Energy contract law
- Drafting and negotiating of gas and electricity supply contracts for industry and trade
- Drafting and negotiating of supply contracts referring to process heat and district heating supply
- Fuel supply contracts, disposal of power plant residues
- Drafting and negotiating of fuel supply contracts including price adjustment clauses, fuel specifications and sampling provisions
- Drafting and negotiating of disposal contracts for power plant residues
- Advice on the Closed Cycle Waste Management Act and Landfill Ordinance
- Renewable energies
- Goal-oriented implementation of planning and approval procedures
- Assigning planning and construction contracts
- Grid connection, electricity feed, direct marketing and financial support according to the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG)
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Due diligence
- Acquisition, sale and restructuring of supply companies
- Drafting and negotiating of share purchase agreements
- Operational transfer in accordance with § 613a BGB (German Civil Code)
- Antitrust advice
- Investment consulting, participation in energy plants (parks) and grids
- Litigation, arbitration and representation before authorities
- Advising and support in planning approval procedures and licensing procedures including public involvement (participation in discussion meetings)
- Counseling regarding objections against planned projects, opposition and claim against licenses and licensing conditions
- Acting for citizens’ initiatives
- Conducting legal action before administrative courts and the ordinary courts including interlocutory relief
- Handling of arbitration proceedings as arbitrator or counsel
- Gaming & Betting Law Practice Group
- Gaming & betting
- Advice on regulation of land-based casinos
- Advice on gaming hall / AWP regulations
- Advice on regulation of betting shops
- Advice on online casino and sports betting
- Advice on the legal framework for fantasy betting
- Advice on regulation of horse betting
- Advice on legal framework for social gaming
- Advice on regulation of lotteries and bingo
- Advice on gambling-related payment solutions
- Strategic advice regarding future trends
- Licensing & compliance
- Casino licensing procedures
- Arcade and gaming hall concessions
- Advice on betting shop concessions
- Sports betting licensing process
- Brokering licences for online lotteries
- AML compliance
- Legal support in day-to-day operations (e.g. regarding customer support)
- Accreditation of age verification tools with German authorities
- Accreditation of test labs with gambling regulators
- Lobbying
- Lobby work with gambling regulators
- Foundation of trade groups
- Representation of gambling companies in trade groups
- Lobby work with European Commission
- Lobby work with tax authorities
- Litigation
- Administrative procedure
- Interstate Treaty restrictions & interdictions
- Interlocutory relief
- Legal defence against player claims
- Legal representation in German supreme courts & constitutional courts
- Commercial
- Establishment of local companies
- Due diligence for gambling-related M&A transactions
- Advertising and contracts
- Trademark issues and litigation
- Advice on competition law risks
- Terms & Conditions
- Tax advice
- Taxation of land-based casinos & gaming halls
- Sports betting tax
- Taxation of online casinos including VAT
- Lottery tax
- Tax registration and reporting
- Tax litigation
- Legal defence against prosecution of tax crimes
- Finance & capital market law
- Regulatory advice
- Representation in dealing with supervisory authorities
- Outsourcing of parts of the business
- Approval procedures for credit and financial service institutions
- Establishment of compliance systems and internal security procedures
- Alternative means ofpayment (for example bitcoins, payment cards)
- Stock & capital market
- Liability for inappropriate investment counseling
- Design and review of (security) prospectus
- Preparation and support of bond issues and initial public offerings
- Mezzanine financing
- Bank contract law
- Credit contracts and syndication
- Credit and payment securities
- Financing of acquisitions and collateralisation
- Sector-specific contract conditions
- Litigation & Arbitration
- Real estate
- Legal Due Diligence
- Land, condominium and part ownership, heritable building rights: creation and transactions
- Hedging instruments
- Condominium ownership
- From old to new, protection of historical monuments
- Facility management
- Energy saving contracting
- Project development
- Property purchase
- Advice on public tenders, PPP projects
- Development of building areas, advice on development and land use planning including project and development plans, preparation and negotiation of urban development contracts
- Advice on urban development and restructuring measures
- Advice on the project and award structure under private law and on contract models
- Drafting and review of project and construction contracts (architects, consortium, property developers, building contractors, BIM, energy saving contracting, general planners, general transferee, general contractors, GMP contracts, prefabricated housing sector, FIDIC, engineers, PPP models, project developers, project controllers, subcontractors)
- Preparation and execution of tenders under private law
- Support in contract negotiations
- Realisation
- Federal State Building Order (approval of construction projects/bringing the intended project to the knowledge of the building authority, neighborhood protection, pollution control, preservation statute and protection of historical monuments)
- Claim management and defence against amendments
- Warranty management
- Construction related and strategic support, mainly with regard to large-scale construction projects and plant construction (for example construction of power plants, industrial plants) as well as securing and asserting receivables
- Examination of supplements and justification
- Advice on receivables due to construction delays
- Support in a crises, for example in case of loss of construction parties
- Criminal construction law (anti-competitive agreements, illegal employment, construction hazards, environmental crimes, fraud and embezzlement in accounting)
- Preparation and supervision of the acceptance
- Audit of partial and final invoices
- Utilisation
- Drafting of commercial rental and leasing contracts
- Design of sale and rent-back/lease-back models
- Support in contract negotiations, termination and questions regarding current leasing
- Seminars & training courses
- Seminars and (inhouse) training courses in all mentioned fields of competence
- Conflict resolution
- Defence against claims
- Preservation of evidence
- Conflict avoidance through contract design
- Strategic advice in the event of conflict
- Remuneration, supplements and prosecution of material defects
- Objections of neighbouring parties and opposition proceedings
- Official conflict management, e.g. construction shutdown
- Judicial review proceedings, allocation complaint and review procedures
- Ordinary jurisdiction, arbitration, ombudsman proceedings and other conciliation procedures including arbitration agreements
- Interlocutory relief
- References
- Consultation of an energy infrastructural company acting across Europe with more than 12.000 employees and an annual business volume of approximately 2 billion Euros
- Extensive counseling of a Bundesliga soccer club in its implementation of a training center for young talents including its financing by a fan bond
- Support of a paper manufacturer with the tender, contractual negotiation (with international dimension) and the installation of paper machine with heating and power station. Total investment volume: approx. 600 million Euros
- Legal assistance of the architects ordered with the planning of the construction project “Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein”, construction volume approx. 520 million Euros
- Legal advice of the Entwicklungsgesellschaft Heidelberg with regard to the development of the new part of town called “Bahnstadt” in Heidelberg. The total investment volume amounts to more than 2 billion Euros
- IT & data protection
- IT & E-Commerce
- Draft of contracts concerning development, distribution, licensing and maintenance of software and hardware
- IT projects
- Outsourcing/shared services
- Set-up and design of e-commerce platforms
- Data protection
- Data protection
- Data protection compliance within the company’s organisation
- Data protection concerning marketing and distribution
- Data protection concerning labour law (private use of operational means, internal investigations, shared-services)
- Cloud computing
- Advice and representation in case of infringements of data protection
- Litigation & arbitration
- Handling of failed IT projects
- Insurances
- Insurance supervisory
- Insurance supervisory law (inter alia new foundation, entry into the German market, development of new business areas, measures of the supervisory authorities)
- Insurance intermediary law (inter alia license proceedings and registration of insurance intermediaries)
- Insurance products & insurance distribution
- Insurance policy law (inter alia design of group insurance contracts and general terms and conditions)
- Insurance distribution law (inter alia establishment of distribution structures, online-distribution, affiliate marketing)
- Delicate Claims Management
- Anti-money laundering
- Intellectual property / media / advertising & PR
- Trademarks & patents
- Draft of property right strategies
- Application and control of trademarks and other property rights
- Delimitation and prior rights agreements
- Enforcement of trademarks and industrial property rights
- Defence of trademark and patent infringements
- Launch of new products
- National and international technology transfer
- Purchase and sale of property rights
- Trademark license agreements and other property right licenses
- Patent agreements and know-how license agreements
- Copyright & design law
- Copyright agreements, publishing contracts
- Draft of agreements regarding multimedia analysis
- Artists‘ contracts and producers‘ contracts
- Concert and show contracts
- Advertising music contracts
- Design contracts and utility model licenses
- Enforcement of copyrights
- Defence against copyright infringements and product imitations
- Launch of new products
- Competition law
- Competition law
- Preparation of advertising and merchandising measures
- Preparation of advertising and merchandising measures
- Preparation of advertising and merchandising measures
- Representation in disputes regarding competition law
- Representation in disputes regarding competition law
- Interim injunctions in order to enforce competitive legal positions
- Caveat against unauthorized use by competitors
- Protection against counterfeiting and misappropriation
- Protection against misleading and comparing advertising
- Antitrust law
- Antitrust law
- Purchase cooperations, distribution cooperations
- Distribution antitrust law
- Conception of selective distribution systems
- Control of online distribution, price competition on the internet
- Research and development cooperations
- Cartels of medium-size enterprises and other cooperations
- Drafting contracts under antitrust law aspects
- Drafting contracts under antitrust law aspects
- Draft of contracts considering antitrust law
- Defence against the exploitation of market power, delivery blocks
- Notification of mergers
- Registration of mergers
- Notification of mergers/merger control proceedings
- Representation before the Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission
- Press & Media
- Coordination and negotiations with media representatives
- „Strategic press law“ – preparation to the media crises and strategic support after publication
- Press releases and interviews with press, radio and TV journalists
- Enforcement of injunctive relieves due to insult, defamation
- Counterstatements, revocations/corrections, damages
- Advertising & public relations
- Individual advertising for customers and future customers
- Examination of advertising measures, compliance
- Advertising agencies
- Agreements with advertising parties
- Sponsoring agreements
- Litigation
- Litigation
- Infringement trials
- Summary proceedings, interim injunctions
- Opposition proceedings
- Annulment proceedings
- Conflict resolution
- Strategic consulting & conflict strategies
- Analysis of facts and legal situation in case of a potential conflict
- Assessment of process, liability and cost risks
- Creation of a negotiation position and of solution proposals
- Advice, support and representation in negotiations with the opposing party
- Prior to a conflict: Drafting of jurisdiction and choice of law clauses as well as of arbitration agreements
- Litigation & arbitration
- Litigation & arbitration
- Litigation & arbitration
- Litigation in state courts (except before the Federal Court of Justice in civil matters)
- Evidence securing procedures
- Arbitration proceedings before institutional or ad hoc arbitral courts
- Interlocutory relief & legal enforcement
- Interim injunction
- Interim order
- Arrest
- Default action
- Compulsory execution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution - ADR
- Mediation
- Arbitrator's report, activity as arbitrator
- Conciliation proceedings
- Representation before authorities & preliminary procedures
- Administrative procedures
- Opposition proceedings
- Public participation procedure
- Review procedures
- Administrative offense proceedings and administrative fine proceedings
- Criminal proceedings
- Cross-border legal disputes
- Advice and representation of foreign clients in Germany
- Support in proceedings before foreign courts
- Providing contacts of specialized law firms abroad
- Acknowledgment proceedings and enforcement of foreign judgments in Germany
- Notary’s office in Berlin
- Real estate law
- Purchase & sale of land, home and partial ownerships, lease holds
- Registration of mortgages
- Plot division
- Creation of lease holds
- Family and inheritance law
- Marriage contracts and „consequences of divorce agreements“
- Last wills and inheritance contracts
- Applications of certificates of inheritance & refusals of inheritance
- Estate inventory
- Adoptions
- Business and corporate law
- Foundation of partnerships and corporations
- Conversion, mergers & liquidation
- Registrations in the commercial register
- Preparation of the lists to be presented by the commercial register
- General civil law
- Powers of attorney
- Promissory letters
- Certificates
- Affidavits
- Notarisations & authentication
- Raffles & draws
- Private Clients
- Succession planning & donation
- Succession counselling and planning, support in family internal communication
- Succession counselling and planning, support in family internal communication
- Anticipated inheritance, draft of donation agreements
- Draft of testamentary dispositions (wills, inheritance contracts)
- Draft of testamentary dispositions (wills, inheritance contracts)
- Agreements on waiver of compulsory share
- Establishment of foundations, donations
- Establishment of foundations, donations
- Clarification and draft of succession issues under private international law
- Clarification and draft of succession issues under international private law
- Inheritance distribution and execution of a will
- Inheritance proceedings
- Precautionary documents
- Precautionary power
- Care directive
- Patient directive
- Marriage agreements
- Marriage agreement
- Cohabitation agreement
- Partnership agreement
- White Collar Crime & Tax Criminal Law
- Commercial criminal law
- Preventive advice
- Preventive advice
- Legal assistance in search and seizure proceedings
- Legal assistance in search and seizure proceedings
- Defence in criminal (investigation) proceedings and administrative offence proceedings
- Defence in criminal (investigation) proceedings and administrative offence proceedings
- Tax criminal law
- Advice and representation in proceedings for voluntary reporting under criminal tax law
- Compliance
- Draft of compliance systems
- Creation of compliance rules
- (In-house-) compliance trainings and seminars
- Review of existing compliance systems
- Internal investigations for current reasons or to uncover weaknesses in the company organisation and the compliance system
- Compliance Due Diligence Audit for M&A
- Advice and representation in case of compliance infringements
- Advice and representation in compliance infringements
- Enforcement of recourse claims
- Defence at all German courts in all instances
- Enforcement of recourse claims by companies against employees in the event of compliance violations
- Distribution & (international) trade
- Distribution & franchise systems
- Law of commercial agencies
- Authorised dealer law
- Law of authorized dealers
- Franchise agreements
- Affiliate marketing
- Draft of other distribution structures
- E-Commerce
- E-Commerce
- Webshops
- Social Media
- Representation before the Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission
- Foreign trade legislation, export control & embargos
- Establishing and audits of compliance systems
- Advice on German and European provisions regarding export control and embargos
- Support in licensing proceedings (German Federal Office of Economics and Export Control)
- US-(re) export law
- Draft and negotiation of cross-border supply and service agreements
- General Terms and Conditions
- Draft, examination and implementation of General Terms and Conditions
- Economy & State - Public law
- Construction & planning
- Advice on the preparation and modification of land use and zoning plans
- Project-related building development plans, drafting and negotiating of urban development contracts (in particular execution contracts) for the purpose of developing a building area or realising large-scale investment projects (retail, commerce, industry, residential and home building)
- Advice on building permit processes and notification procedures
- Execution of and advice on plan approval procedures including participation of the public
- Advice on immission control approval procedures for the purpose of establishing or expanding businesses (industry and commerce, energy facilities, sports facilities, leisure facilities)
- Protection of historical monuments
- Advice on development contributions and municipal levies
- Environment & waste management
- Advice on immission control (in particular noise, odour) in the context of immission control permits, approaching construction or subsequent requirements (in particular defence against production-restricting regulations)
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental liability of companies
- Contaminated sites and soil protection
- Sewage disposal, indirect discharge of commercial and industrial wastewater, advice on and support in licensing procedures of sewage treatment plants, levying of fees and charges
- Waste disposal, draft and negotiation of disposal agreements of commercial and industrial waste including power station residues; advice on and support in licensing procedures
- Waste shipment – requirements under public law and contract law
- Chemicals legislation
- Infrastructure: air, rail & road
- Advice on regional planning, land use and development planning
- Advising project developers as well as municipalities and adjoining residents on the execution of planning approval and licensing procedures [planning, construction and operation of airports, rail networks, (long-distance) road construction].
- Replacement and compensatory measures (nature and landscape), protection requirements
- Advice on the conduct of expropriation procedures
- Advice on the raising of objections, the holding of the discussion hearing and the conduct of litigation proceedings
- Support for tenders for railway tracks and networks
- Award and construction of roads including preparation of PPP and financing models in the road traffic
- Public enterprises & municipalities
- Formal privatization of state and municipal companies including due diligence
- Sale of municipal shareholdings
- Conception and structuring of models for the inclusion of private individuals in the fulfilment of public tasks, e.g. in the field of recycling management law, water law or transport infrastructure
- Foundation of mixed-economy enterprises of different legal forms
- Legal support in bidding procedures for the privatisation of public utilities and waste disposal companies as well as the award of service and construction contracts including concessions
- Advice on municipal law in all 16 federal states
- Municipal Tax Law and Development Contribution Law
- Procurement & Public Private Partnership
- Structuring and implementation of national and EU-wide procurement procedures
- Support of public clients and bidders in tenders for construction projects and services as well as concessions (according to GWB, VgV, VOB/A as well as budget law)
- Support for public contracting authorities and bidders in awarding contracts in the sectors of energy (gas, heat, electricity), water and transport services (according to SektVO)
- Advice on the draft of models without procurement (for example inhouse-procurement, horizontal cooperation of public entities, amendment of existing contracts) and in competitive tendering procedures (as architectural competitions) outside procurement law
- Development of PPP and financing models for road traffic and municipal buildings (e.g. day-care centres, schools, fire stations, courts, swimming pools, multi-purpose halls), assistance in investor selection procedures
- Representation of awarding authorities and bidders in procurement review procedures
- Grants & subsidies
- Support with grant applications
- Advice on compliance with relevant regulations and requirements for investment grants
- Defence against reclaims for subsidies
- Legal protection in connection with competition lawsuits (enforcement of and defence against corresponding claims)
- European law & international law
- European environmental and technology law
- European subsidy law
- Application of EU regulations and effects of EU directives in national law
- Advice to public authorities and investors on transnational projects
- Advice on international treaties (e.g. double taxation agreements, ECHR, WTO agreements, UN Charter, Geneva Convention)
- Legislative procedures
- Advice on and support in coping with legislative bodies and political organisations, observation and analysis of political developments during the legislative process
- Drafting of argumentation lines and statements in the context of participation in the political decision-making process
- Draft of initiative presentations within the lobbying work of industries and associations
- Litigation & representation before authorities
- Representation before local, state and federal authorities as well as before arbitral courts, German and European courts
- Seminars & training
- We offer seminars and in-house training courses on all of the aforementioned topics for both public clients and companies.
- Recruiting, drafting of employment contracts, current employment
- Labour law / HR
- Legal aspects of personnel recruitment, selection and hiring of personnel
- Employment contracts and connected agreements
- Fixed-term employment law (fixed-term employment with or without a material reason, fixed-term employment beyond retirement age)
- Variable payment (target agreements, royalties, commissions, bonuses, long- and short-term incentives, employee participation)
- Variable working hours (flexible work time, capacity-oriented work time, trust-based working hours, working hours accounts)
- Part-time work inside and outside parental leave, care and family leave, sabbaticals
- Corporate integration management
- Written warnings
- Notice of terminations, cancellation and winding-up agreements
- References
- Employment of temporary workers
- Work contracts, service contracts, avoidance of bogus self-employment
- Supply of temporary workers
- Management contracts
- Transactions, restructuring & reorganisation
- Due diligence concerning labour law
- Negotiation and draft of transfer of or change in operations
- Draft of new operational structures
- Adjustment and draft of working conditions and payment structures
- Staff reduction measures (reconciliation of interests, social plans, collective redundancies, actions for dismissal protection)
- Works council, economic committee, personnel council, employee representation, representation of severely disabled persons
- Advice of enterprises without a works council (employee communication without works council, alternative employee representation, advice on questions regarding the initiation or avoidance of the establishment of a works council)
- Establishment of a works council, works council elections, appeal against works council elections
- Constructive cooperation with the works council (communication with the works council, right to information of the works council, monthly meetings, works council meetings, works council training, cost for works council training etc.)
- Limits to constructive cooperation: exclusion of individual works council members or dissolution of the works council due to gross breaches of duty; termination of works council members
- Advice and support in all questions of co-determination of the works council under works constitution law (e.g. recruitment, transfer, dismissal, working time models, overtime, remuneration, data processing, employee monitoring, social media etc.)
- Negotiation and drafting of works agreements and ( in-house ) collective agreements
- Negotiation of reconciliations of interest and social plans in case of restructuring and lay-offs
- Representation and support of the employer in conciliation bodies
- Representation and support of the employer in other disputes with the works council outside and in court
- Advising the employer on how to deal with the representative body for severely handicapped persons
- Matters regarding board and managing directors
- Draft of service agreements for management and board members as well as for executives, draft of rules of procedure for board members and management
- Negotiation and draft of separation agreements
- Termination of the employment contract and litigation in the termination and compensation process
- Drafting agreements on non-compete and post-contractual non-compete clauses; representation in litigation, in particular interim injunctions for omission of competition
- Directors & Officers Liability and D&O insurance
- Company pension
- Deferred compensation
- Restructuring of existing and introduction of new pension models (choice of the pension model: direct pension, direct insurance, support fund, pension funds, etc.)
- Adjustment or denial of the adjustment of company pensions pursuant to § 16 BetrAVG
- Social security
- Employment of temporary workers, assignment of workers, freelance contributor models and avoidance of bogus self-employment and bogus work agreement
- Managers subject to social security
- International social insurance for secondments or parallel activities in several host countries
- Representation in all individual and collective disputes before the labor courts (labor court, regional labor court, federal labor court) and, in particular in disputes between managing directors and board members and the company, the ordinary courts (regional court, higher regional court, representation before the Federal Supreme Court)
- Support and representation of the employer in the conciliation committee
- International labour law
- Design of cross-border employee assignments (labour, social security and residence permit law, inbound and outbound)
- Advice of German subsidiaries of international companies
- Advice of German clients with regard to foreign subsidiaries
- Cross-border restructuring
- Enterprises / Corporate & Commercial
- General company law
- Conception and establishment of companies
- Articles of association and shareholder agreements
- Amendments to the articles of association, capital measures
- Design of the organisational structure and advice on corporate governance issues
- Internal company disputes
- Preparation and support of shareholders' meetings and annual general meetings, resolution deficiency proceedings
- Liquidation of companies
- Advice for start-ups
- Corporate housekeeping
- Restructuring & reorganisation
- Change of legal form
- Mergers
- Demergers, in particular spin-offs and split-offs of parts of companies
- Creation of holding structures
- Intercompany agreements and other group legal relationships
- Restructuring & insolvency
- Advice close to insolvency
- Design and support of redevelopment concepts
- Preparation and support of insolvency plan procedures
- Counseling of creditors, management and shareholders
- Insolvency administration
- Company succession
- Adaptation of articles of association to the needs of succession planning
- Restructuring of companies and group of companies with regard to succession planning
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Conception and prospectus of investment funds
- Venture capital and private equity financings
- Advice in connection with IPOs
- Support of company acquisitions on the buyer and seller side, including due diligence reviews and post-M&A disputes
- Corporate governance & compliance
- Compliance guidelines and operational instructions
- Compliance management systems
- Design of the internal corporate structures
- Allocation of responsibilities
- Rules of procedure
- Representation of companies and managers in matters of managing directors' and board members' liability
- (International) trade
- General terms and conditions
- Non-disclosure agreements
- Commercial purchase
- Law of commercial agents
- Freight and forwarding law
- International commercial law
- Distribution law
- Foreign trade legislation, export control & embargos
- Distribution antitrust law
- Representation in dealing with the Federal antitrust authorities and the European Commission
- Application for exemption from the non-compete obligation
- Application for exemption from the non-compete obligation
- Airlines & aviation
- Claims management
- Cargo transport
- Advice regarding IT and e-commerce
- Advice regarding relationships to Ground Handling Partners (airport operators as for example Fraport AG, Airport Service Companies etc.) and IATA contract system
- Labour law
- Right of residence
- Trainings
- Design of General Conditions of Carriage and General Queries on Flight Handling
- Enforcement/defence of claims against third parties
- Data protection law
- Employee data protection
- Draft and implementation of technical and organisational measures pursuant to the Federal Data Protection Act
- Company organisation in compliance with data protection law, outsourcing
- Development of (also cross-bordered, integrated) CRM data bases
- Direct marketing campaigns, co-marketing, co-branding, social media
- Generation and use of qualified leads/data of interested parties
- Commercial tenancy law
- Drafting of commercial rental and leasing contracts
- Design of sale and rent-back/lease-back models
- Support and accompaniment of contract negotiations, termination and questions of ongoing leases
- Litigation, arbitration & ADR
- Representation before all local, regional and higher regional courts in civil proceedings
- Arbitration proceedings
- Alternative dispute resolution proceedings, for example mediation
- Competence
- Distribution cartel law
- Proceedings before public procurement courts
Frankfurt
- Construction law & real estate
- Real estate
- Project planning
- Realisation
- Conflict resolution
- Seminars & training courses
- References
- Legal Due Diligence
- Land, condominium and part ownership, heritable building rights: creation and transactions
- Hedging instruments
- Condominium ownership
- Project development
- Property purchase
- Advice on public tenders, PPP projects
- Federal State Building Order (approval of construction projects/bringing the intended project to the knowledge of the building authority, neighborhood protection, pollution control, preservation statute and protection of historical monuments)
- Claim management and defence against amendments
- Warranty management
- Defence against claims
- Preservation of evidence
- Interlocutory relief
- Seminars and (inhouse) training courses in all mentioned fields of competence
- Project planning
- Construction law & real estate
- Conflict resolution
- Strategic consulting & conflict strategies
- Private Clients
- Energy
- Enterprises / Corporate & Commercial
- Economy & State - Public law
- Gaming & Betting Law Practice Group
- Gaming & betting
- Advice on regulation of land-based casinos
- Construction & planning
- Environment & waste management
- Infrastructure: air, rail & road
- Public enterprises & municipalities
- Procurement & Public Private Partnership
- Grants & subsidies
- European law & international law
- Legislative procedures
- Litigation & representation before authorities
- Representation before local, state and federal authorities as well as before arbitral courts, German and European courts
- Advice on and support in coping with legislative bodies and political organisations, observation and analysis of political developments during the legislative process
- Drafting of argumentation lines and statements in the context of participation in the political decision-making process
- Draft of initiative presentations within the lobbying work of industries and associations
- From old to new, protection of historical monuments
- Finance & capital market law
- Regulatory advice
- Representation in dealing with supervisory authorities
- Outsourcing of parts of the business
- Approval procedures for credit and financial service institutions
- Establishment of compliance systems and internal security procedures
- Alternative means ofpayment (for example bitcoins, payment cards)
- Stock & capital market
- Liability for inappropriate investment counseling
- Design and review of (security) prospectus
- Preparation and support of bond issues and initial public offerings
- Mezzanine financing
- Bank contract law
- Credit contracts and syndication
- Credit and payment securities
- Financing of acquisitions and collateralisation
- Sector-specific contract conditions
- Litigation & Arbitration
- Facility management
- Energy saving contracting
- Development of building areas, advice on development and land use planning including project and development plans, preparation and negotiation of urban development contracts
- Advice on urban development and restructuring measures
- Advice on the project and award structure under private law and on contract models
- Drafting and review of project and construction contracts (architects, consortium, property developers, building contractors, BIM, energy saving contracting, general planners, general transferee, general contractors, GMP contracts, prefabricated housing sector, FIDIC, engineers, PPP models, project developers, project controllers, subcontractors)
- Preparation and execution of tenders under private law
- Support in contract negotiations
- Construction related and strategic support, mainly with regard to large-scale construction projects and plant construction (for example construction of power plants, industrial plants) as well as securing and asserting receivables
- Examination of supplements and justification
- Advice on receivables due to construction delays
- Support in a crises, for example in case of loss of construction parties
- Criminal construction law (anti-competitive agreements, illegal employment, construction hazards, environmental crimes, fraud and embezzlement in accounting)
- Preparation and supervision of the acceptance
- Audit of partial and final invoices
- Utilisation
- Drafting of commercial rental and leasing contracts
- Design of sale and rent-back/lease-back models
- Support in contract negotiations, termination and questions regarding current leasing
- Conflict avoidance through contract design
- Strategic advice in the event of conflict
- Remuneration, supplements and prosecution of material defects
- Objections of neighbouring parties and opposition proceedings
- Official conflict management, e.g. construction shutdown
- Judicial review proceedings, allocation complaint and review procedures
- Ordinary jurisdiction, arbitration, ombudsman proceedings and other conciliation procedures including arbitration agreements
- Consultation of an energy infrastructural company acting across Europe with more than 12.000 employees and an annual business volume of approximately 2 billion Euros
- Extensive counseling of a Bundesliga soccer club in its implementation of a training center for young talents including its financing by a fan bond
- Support of a paper manufacturer with the tender, contractual negotiation (with international dimension) and the installation of paper machine with heating and power station. Total investment volume: approx. 600 million Euros
- Legal assistance of the architects ordered with the planning of the construction project “Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein”, construction volume approx. 520 million Euros
- Legal advice of the Entwicklungsgesellschaft Heidelberg with regard to the development of the new part of town called “Bahnstadt” in Heidelberg. The total investment volume amounts to more than 2 billion Euros
- Energy plant construction
- Goal-oriented execution of land use planning procedures and approval procedures
- Allocation of planning and construction orders
- Advice during a construction project
- Legal advice around subsidies
- Infrastructural measures
- Goal-oriented execution of land use planning procedures and approval procedures
- Allocation of planning and construction orders
- Advice during a construction project
- Legal advice around subsidies
- Networks
- Planning, allocation and construction of networks
- Counseling with regard to scenarios and network development plans
- Goal-oriented execution of land use planning procedures and approval procedures
- Network access, network charge
- Energy contracting
- Draft and negotiation of contracting agreements for process heat and electricity
- Construction and operation of generating plants
- Easements and heritage building rights
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Grid connection, electricity feed and financial support
- Energy saving contracting for industry and municipalities
- Licenses
- Granting of energy licenses
- Drafting and negotiating of simple and qualified easement agreements pursuant to the law on the energy industry
- Advising of energy supply companies and municipalities
- Energy contract law
- Drafting and negotiating of gas and electricity supply contracts for industry and trade
- Drafting and negotiating of supply contracts referring to process heat and district heating supply
- Fuel supply contracts, disposal of power plant residues
- Drafting and negotiating of fuel supply contracts including price adjustment clauses, fuel specifications and sampling provisions
- Drafting and negotiating of disposal contracts for power plant residues
- Advice on the Closed Cycle Waste Management Act and Landfill Ordinance
- Renewable energies
- Goal-oriented implementation of planning and approval procedures
- Assigning planning and construction contracts
- Grid connection, electricity feed, direct marketing and financial support according to the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG)
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Acquisition, sale and restructuring of supply companies
- Due diligence
- Drafting and negotiating of share purchase agreements
- Operational transfer in accordance with § 613a BGB (German Civil Code)
- Antitrust advice
- Investment consulting, participation in energy plants (parks) and grids
- Litigation, arbitration and representation before authorities
- Advising and support in planning approval procedures and licensing procedures including public involvement (participation in discussion meetings)
- Counseling regarding objections against planned projects, opposition and claim against licenses and licensing conditions
- Acting for citizens’ initiatives
- Handling of arbitration proceedings as arbitrator or counsel
- Conducting legal action before administrative courts and the ordinary courts including interlocutory relief
- Advice on gaming hall / AWP regulations
- Advice on regulation of betting shops
- Advice on online casino and sports betting
- Advice on the legal framework for fantasy betting
- Advice on regulation of horse betting
- Advice on legal framework for social gaming
- Advice on regulation of lotteries and bingo
- Advice on gambling-related payment solutions
- Strategic advice regarding future trends
- Licensing & compliance
- Casino licensing procedures
- Arcade and gaming hall concessions
- Advice on betting shop concessions
- Sports betting licensing process
- Brokering licences for online lotteries
- AML compliance
- Legal support in day-to-day operations (e.g. regarding customer support)
- Accreditation of age verification tools with German authorities
- Accreditation of test labs with gambling regulators
- Lobbying
- Lobby work with gambling regulators
- Foundation of trade groups
- Representation of gambling companies in trade groups
- Lobby work with European Commission
- Lobby work with tax authorities
- Litigation
- Administrative procedure
- Interstate Treaty restrictions & interdictions
- Interlocutory relief
- Legal defence against player claims
- Legal representation in German supreme courts & constitutional courts
- Commercial
- Establishment of local companies
- Due diligence for gambling-related M&A transactions
- Advertising and contracts
- Trademark issues and litigation
- Advice on competition law risks
- Terms & Conditions
- Tax advice
- Taxation of land-based casinos & gaming halls
- Sports betting tax
- Taxation of online casinos including VAT
- Lottery tax
- Tax registration and reporting
- Tax litigation
- Legal defence against prosecution of tax crimes
- Intellectual property / media / advertising & PR
- Trademarks & patents
- Draft of property right strategies
- Application and control of trademarks and other property rights
- Delimitation and prior rights agreements
- Enforcement of trademarks and industrial property rights
- Defence of trademark and patent infringements
- Launch of new products
- National and international technology transfer
- Purchase and sale of property rights
- Trademark license agreements and other property right licenses
- Patent agreements and know-how license agreements
- Copyright & design law
- Copyright agreements, publishing contracts
- Draft of agreements regarding multimedia analysis
- Artists‘ contracts and producers‘ contracts
- Concert and show contracts
- Advertising music contracts
- Design contracts and utility model licenses
- Enforcement of copyrights
- Defence against copyright infringements and product imitations
- Launch of new products
- Competition law
- Preparation of advertising and merchandising measures
- Representation in disputes regarding competition law
- Interim injunctions in order to enforce competitive legal positions
- Caveat against unauthorized use by competitors
- Protection against counterfeiting and misappropriation
- Protection against misleading and comparing advertising
- Antitrust law
- Purchase cooperations, distribution cooperations
- Distribution antitrust law
- Conception of selective distribution systems
- Control of online distribution, price competition on the internet
- Research and development cooperations
- Cartels of medium-size enterprises and other cooperations
- Draft of contracts considering antitrust law
- Defence against the exploitation of market power, delivery blocks
- Registration of mergers
- Representation before the Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission
- Press & Media
- Coordination and negotiations with media representatives
- „Strategic press law“ – preparation to the media crises and strategic support after publication
- Press releases and interviews with press, radio and TV journalists
- Enforcement of injunctive relieves due to insult, defamation
- Counterstatements, revocations/corrections, damages
- Advertising & public relations
- Preparation of advertising and merchandising measures
- Individual advertising for customers and future customers
- Examination of advertising measures, compliance
- Advertising agencies
- Agreements with advertising parties
- Sponsoring agreements
- Litigation
- Infringement trials
- Summary proceedings, interim injunctions
- Opposition proceedings
- Annulment proceedings
- IT & data protection
- IT & E-Commerce
- Draft of contracts concerning development, distribution, licensing and maintenance of software and hardware
- IT projects
- Outsourcing/shared services
- Set-up and design of e-commerce platforms
- Data protection
- Data protection compliance within the company’s organisation
- Data protection concerning marketing and distribution
- Data protection concerning labour law (private use of operational means, internal investigations, shared-services)
- Cloud computing
- Advice and representation in case of infringements of data protection
- Litigation & arbitration
- Handling of failed IT projects
- Prior to a conflict: Drafting of jurisdiction and choice of law clauses as well as of arbitration agreements
- Analysis of facts and legal situation in case of a potential conflict
- Assessment of process, liability and cost risks
- Creation of a negotiation position and of solution proposals
- Advice, support and representation in negotiations with the opposing party
- Litigation & arbitration
- Litigation in state courts (except before the Federal Court of Justice in civil matters)
- Evidence securing procedures
- Arbitration proceedings before institutional or ad hoc arbitral courts
- Proceedings before public procurement courts
- Interlocutory relief & legal enforcement
- Interim injunction
- Interim order
- Arrest
- Default action
- Compulsory execution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution - ADR
- Mediation
- Arbitrator's report, activity as arbitrator
- Conciliation proceedings
- Representation before authorities & preliminary procedures
- Administrative procedures
- Opposition proceedings
- Public participation procedure
- Review procedures
- Administrative offense proceedings and administrative fine proceedings
- Criminal proceedings
- Cross-border legal disputes
- Advice and representation of foreign clients in Germany
- Support in proceedings before foreign courts
- Providing contacts of specialized law firms abroad
- Acknowledgment proceedings and enforcement of foreign judgments in Germany
- Notary’s office in Berlin
- Real estate law
- Purchase & sale of land, home and partial ownerships, lease holds
- Registration of mortgages
- Plot division
- Creation of lease holds
- Family and inheritance law
- Marriage contracts and „consequences of divorce agreements“
- Last wills and inheritance contracts
- Applications of certificates of inheritance & refusals of inheritance
- Estate inventory
- Adoptions
- Business and corporate law
- Foundation of partnerships and corporations
- Conversion, mergers & liquidation
- Registrations in the commercial register
- Preparation of the lists to be presented by the commercial register
- General civil law
- Powers of attorney
- Promissory letters
- Certificates
- Affidavits
- Notarisations & authentication
- Raffles & draws
- Labour law / HR
- Recruiting, drafting of employment contracts, current employment
- Legal aspects of personnel recruitment, selection and hiring of personnel
- Employment contracts and connected agreements
- Fixed-term employment law (fixed-term employment with or without a material reason, fixed-term employment beyond retirement age)
- Variable payment (target agreements, royalties, commissions, bonuses, long- and short-term incentives, employee participation)
- Variable working hours (flexible work time, capacity-oriented work time, trust-based working hours, working hours accounts)
- Part-time work inside and outside parental leave, care and family leave, sabbaticals
- Corporate integration management
- Written warnings
- Notice of terminations, cancellation and winding-up agreements
- References
- Employment of temporary workers
- Work contracts, service contracts, avoidance of bogus self-employment
- Supply of temporary workers
- Management contracts
- Transactions, restructuring & reorganisation
- Due diligence concerning labour law
- Negotiation and draft of transfer of or change in operations
- Draft of new operational structures
- Adjustment and draft of working conditions and payment structures
- Staff reduction measures (reconciliation of interests, social plans, collective redundancies, actions for dismissal protection)
- Works council, economic committee, personnel council, employee representation, representation of severely disabled persons
- Advice of enterprises without a works council (employee communication without works council, alternative employee representation, advice on questions regarding the initiation or avoidance of the establishment of a works council)
- Establishment of a works council, works council elections, appeal against works council elections
- Constructive cooperation with the works council (communication with the works council, right to information of the works council, monthly meetings, works council meetings, works council training, cost for works council training etc.)
- Limits to constructive cooperation: exclusion of individual works council members or dissolution of the works council due to gross breaches of duty; termination of works council members
- Advice and support in all questions of co-determination of the works council under works constitution law (e.g. recruitment, transfer, dismissal, working time models, overtime, remuneration, data processing, employee monitoring, social media etc.)
- Negotiation and drafting of works agreements and ( in-house ) collective agreements
- Negotiation of reconciliations of interest and social plans in case of restructuring and lay-offs
- Representation and support of the employer in conciliation bodies
- Representation and support of the employer in other disputes with the works council outside and in court
- Advising the employer on how to deal with the representative body for severely handicapped persons
- Matters regarding board and managing directors
- Draft of service agreements for management and board members as well as for executives, draft of rules of procedure for board members and management
- Negotiation and draft of separation agreements
- Termination of the employment contract and litigation in the termination and compensation process
- Drafting agreements on non-compete and post-contractual non-compete clauses; representation in litigation, in particular interim injunctions for omission of competition
- Directors & Officers Liability and D&O insurance
- Company pension
- Deferred compensation
- Restructuring of existing and introduction of new pension models (choice of the pension model: direct pension, direct insurance, support fund, pension funds, etc.)
- Adjustment or denial of the adjustment of company pensions pursuant to § 16 BetrAVG
- Social security
- Employment of temporary workers, assignment of workers, freelance contributor models and avoidance of bogus self-employment and bogus work agreement
- Managers subject to social security
- International social insurance for secondments or parallel activities in several host countries
- Litigation & arbitration
- Representation in all individual and collective disputes before the labor courts (labor court, regional labor court, federal labor court) and, in particular in disputes between managing directors and board members and the company, the ordinary courts (regional court, higher regional court, representation before the Federal Supreme Court)
- Support and representation of the employer in the conciliation committee
- International labour law
- Design of cross-border employee assignments (labour, social security and residence permit law, inbound and outbound)
- Advice of German subsidiaries of international companies
- Advice of German clients with regard to foreign subsidiaries
- Cross-border restructuring
- Succession planning & donation
- Succession counselling and planning, support in family internal communication
- Anticipated inheritance, draft of donation agreements
- Draft of testamentary dispositions (wills, inheritance contracts)
- Agreements on waiver of compulsory share
- Establishment of foundations, donations
- Clarification and draft of succession issues under private international law
- Inheritance distribution and execution of a will
- Inheritance proceedings
- Precautionary documents
- Precautionary power
- Care directive
- Patient directive
- Marriage agreements
- Marriage agreement
- Cohabitation agreement
- Partnership agreement
- General company law
- Conception and establishment of companies
- Articles of association and shareholder agreements
- Amendments to the articles of association, capital measures
- Design of the organisational structure and advice on corporate governance issues
- Preparation and support of shareholders' meetings and annual general meetings, resolution deficiency proceedings
- Internal company disputes
- Liquidation of companies
- Advice for start-ups
- Corporate housekeeping
- Restructuring & reorganisation
- Change of legal form
- Mergers
- Demergers, in particular spin-offs and split-offs of parts of companies
- Creation of holding structures
- Intercompany agreements and other group legal relationships
- Restructuring & insolvency
- Advice close to insolvency
- Design and support of redevelopment concepts
- Preparation and support of insolvency plan procedures
- Counseling of creditors, management and shareholders
- Insolvency administration
- Company succession
- Succession counselling and planning, support in family internal communication
- Draft of testamentary dispositions (wills, inheritance contracts)
- Adaptation of articles of association to the needs of succession planning
- Restructuring of companies and group of companies with regard to succession planning
- Establishment of foundations, donations
- Clarification and draft of succession issues under international private law
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Support of company acquisitions on the buyer and seller side, including due diligence reviews and post-M&A disputes
- Venture capital and private equity financings
- Conception and prospectus of investment funds
- Advice in connection with IPOs
- Corporate governance & compliance
- Design of the internal corporate structures
- Allocation of responsibilities
- Rules of procedure
- Representation of companies and managers in matters of managing directors' and board members' liability
- Compliance management systems
- Compliance guidelines and operational instructions
- Advice and representation in case of compliance infringements
- (International) trade
- General terms and conditions
- Non-disclosure agreements
- Commercial purchase
- Distribution law
- E-Commerce
- Law of commercial agents
- Law of authorized dealers
- Freight and forwarding law
- International commercial law
- Foreign trade legislation, export control & embargos
- Antitrust law
- Distribution antitrust law
- Application for exemption from the non-compete obligation
- Drafting contracts under antitrust law aspects
- Notification of mergers/merger control proceedings
- Representation in dealing with the Federal antitrust authorities and the European Commission
- Airlines & aviation
- Claims management
- Cargo transport
- Design of General Conditions of Carriage and General Queries on Flight Handling
- Advice regarding IT and e-commerce
- Advice regarding relationships to Ground Handling Partners (airport operators as for example Fraport AG, Airport Service Companies etc.) and IATA contract system
- Enforcement/defence of claims against third parties
- Labour law
- Right of residence
- Trainings
- Data protection law
- Employee data protection
- Draft and implementation of technical and organisational measures pursuant to the Federal Data Protection Act
- Company organisation in compliance with data protection law, outsourcing
- Development of (also cross-bordered, integrated) CRM data bases
- Direct marketing campaigns, co-marketing, co-branding, social media
- Generation and use of qualified leads/data of interested parties
- Commercial tenancy law
- Drafting of commercial rental and leasing contracts
- Design of sale and rent-back/lease-back models
- Support and accompaniment of contract negotiations, termination and questions of ongoing leases
- Litigation, arbitration & ADR
- Representation before all local, regional and higher regional courts in civil proceedings
- Arbitration proceedings
- Alternative dispute resolution proceedings, for example mediation
- Insurances
- Insurance supervisory
- Insurance supervisory law (inter alia new foundation, entry into the German market, development of new business areas, measures of the supervisory authorities)
- Insurance intermediary law (inter alia license proceedings and registration of insurance intermediaries)
- Insurance products & insurance distribution
- Insurance policy law (inter alia design of group insurance contracts and general terms and conditions)
- Insurance distribution law (inter alia establishment of distribution structures, online-distribution, affiliate marketing)
- Delicate Claims Management
- Anti-money laundering
- Data protection
- Distribution & (international) trade
- Distribution & franchise systems
- Law of commercial agencies
- Authorised dealer law
- Franchise agreements
- Affiliate marketing
- Draft of other distribution structures
- E-Commerce
- Webshops
- Social Media
- Competition law
- Preparation of advertising and merchandising measures
- Representation in disputes regarding competition law
- Distribution cartel law
- Application for exemption from the non-compete obligation
- Drafting contracts under antitrust law aspects
- Notification of mergers
- Representation before the Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission
- Establishing and audits of compliance systems
- Advice on German and European provisions regarding export control and embargos
- Support in licensing proceedings (German Federal Office of Economics and Export Control)
- US-(re) export law
- Foreign trade legislation, export control & embargos
- Draft and negotiation of cross-border supply and service agreements
- General Terms and Conditions
- Draft, examination and implementation of General Terms and Conditions
- Litigation & arbitration
- Advice on the preparation and modification of land use and zoning plans
- Project-related building development plans, drafting and negotiating of urban development contracts (in particular execution contracts) for the purpose of developing a building area or realising large-scale investment projects (retail, commerce, industry, residential and home building)
- Advice on building permit processes and notification procedures
- Execution of and advice on plan approval procedures including participation of the public
- Advice on immission control approval procedures for the purpose of establishing or expanding businesses (industry and commerce, energy facilities, sports facilities, leisure facilities)
- Protection of historical monuments
- Advice on development contributions and municipal levies
- Advice on immission control (in particular noise, odour) in the context of immission control permits, approaching construction or subsequent requirements (in particular defence against production-restricting regulations)
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental liability of companies
- Contaminated sites and soil protection
- Sewage disposal, indirect discharge of commercial and industrial wastewater, advice on and support in licensing procedures of sewage treatment plants, levying of fees and charges
- Waste disposal, draft and negotiation of disposal agreements of commercial and industrial waste including power station residues; advice on and support in licensing procedures
- Waste shipment – requirements under public law and contract law
- Chemicals legislation
- Advice on regional planning, land use and development planning
- Advising project developers as well as municipalities and adjoining residents on the execution of planning approval and licensing procedures [planning, construction and operation of airports, rail networks, (long-distance) road construction].
- Replacement and compensatory measures (nature and landscape), protection requirements
- Advice on the conduct of expropriation procedures
- Advice on the raising of objections, the holding of the discussion hearing and the conduct of litigation proceedings
- Support for tenders for railway tracks and networks
- Award and construction of roads including preparation of PPP and financing models in the road traffic
- Formal privatization of state and municipal companies including due diligence
- Sale of municipal shareholdings
- Conception and structuring of models for the inclusion of private individuals in the fulfilment of public tasks, e.g. in the field of recycling management law, water law or transport infrastructure
- Foundation of mixed-economy enterprises of different legal forms
- Legal support in bidding procedures for the privatisation of public utilities and waste disposal companies as well as the award of service and construction contracts including concessions
- Advice on municipal law in all 16 federal states
- Municipal Tax Law and Development Contribution Law
- Structuring and implementation of national and EU-wide procurement procedures
- Support of public clients and bidders in tenders for construction projects and services as well as concessions (according to GWB, VgV, VOB/A as well as budget law)
- Support for public contracting authorities and bidders in awarding contracts in the sectors of energy (gas, heat, electricity), water and transport services (according to SektVO)
- Advice on the draft of models without procurement (for example inhouse-procurement, horizontal cooperation of public entities, amendment of existing contracts) and in competitive tendering procedures (as architectural competitions) outside procurement law
- Development of PPP and financing models for road traffic and municipal buildings (e.g. day-care centres, schools, fire stations, courts, swimming pools, multi-purpose halls), assistance in investor selection procedures
- Representation of awarding authorities and bidders in procurement review procedures
- Support with grant applications
- Advice on compliance with relevant regulations and requirements for investment grants
- Defence against reclaims for subsidies
- Legal protection in connection with competition lawsuits (enforcement of and defence against corresponding claims)
- European environmental and technology law
- European subsidy law
- Application of EU regulations and effects of EU directives in national law
- Advice to public authorities and investors on transnational projects
- Advice on international treaties (e.g. double taxation agreements, ECHR, WTO agreements, UN Charter, Geneva Convention)
- Seminars & training
- We offer seminars and in-house training courses on all of the aforementioned topics for both public clients and companies.
- White Collar Crime & Tax Criminal Law
- Commercial criminal law
- Preventive advice
- Legal assistance in search and seizure proceedings
- Defence in criminal (investigation) proceedings and administrative offence proceedings
- Tax criminal law
- Preventive advice
- Advice and representation in proceedings for voluntary reporting under criminal tax law
- Legal assistance in search and seizure proceedings
- Defence in criminal (investigation) proceedings and administrative offence proceedings
- Compliance
- Draft of compliance systems
- Creation of compliance rules
- (In-house-) compliance trainings and seminars
- Review of existing compliance systems
- Internal investigations for current reasons or to uncover weaknesses in the company organisation and the compliance system
- Compliance Due Diligence Audit for M&A
- Advice and representation in compliance infringements
- Enforcement of recourse claims
- Litigation
- Defence at all German courts in all instances
- Enforcement of recourse claims by companies against employees in the event of compliance violations
- Energy
- Energy plant construction
- Planning, allocation and construction of networks
- Goal-oriented execution of land use planning procedures and approval procedures
- Allocation of planning and construction orders
- Advice during a construction project
- Legal advice around subsidies
- Infrastructural measures
- Goal-oriented execution of land use planning procedures and approval procedures
- Allocation of planning and construction orders
- Advice during a construction project
- Legal advice around subsidies
- Networks
- Counseling with regard to scenarios and network development plans
- Goal-oriented execution of land use planning procedures and approval procedures
- Network access, network charge
- Energy contracting
- Draft and negotiation of contracting agreements for process heat and electricity
- Construction and operation of generating plants
- Easements and heritage building rights
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Grid connection, electricity feed and financial support
- Energy saving contracting for industry and municipalities
- Licenses
- Granting of energy licenses
- Drafting and negotiating of simple and qualified easement agreements pursuant to the law on the energy industry
- Advising of energy supply companies and municipalities
- Energy contract law
- Drafting and negotiating of gas and electricity supply contracts for industry and trade
- Drafting and negotiating of supply contracts referring to process heat and district heating supply
- Fuel supply contracts, disposal of power plant residues
- Drafting and negotiating of fuel supply contracts including price adjustment clauses, fuel specifications and sampling provisions
- Drafting and negotiating of disposal contracts for power plant residues
- Advice on the Closed Cycle Waste Management Act and Landfill Ordinance
- Renewable energies
- Goal-oriented implementation of planning and approval procedures
- Assigning planning and construction contracts
- Grid connection, electricity feed, direct marketing and financial support according to the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG)
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Due diligence
- Acquisition, sale and restructuring of supply companies
- Drafting and negotiating of share purchase agreements
- Operational transfer in accordance with § 613a BGB (German Civil Code)
- Antitrust advice
- Investment consulting, participation in energy plants (parks) and grids
- Litigation, arbitration and representation before authorities
- Advising and support in planning approval procedures and licensing procedures including public involvement (participation in discussion meetings)
- Counseling regarding objections against planned projects, opposition and claim against licenses and licensing conditions
- Acting for citizens’ initiatives
- Conducting legal action before administrative courts and the ordinary courts including interlocutory relief
- Handling of arbitration proceedings as arbitrator or counsel
- Gaming & Betting Law Practice Group
- Gaming & betting
- Advice on regulation of land-based casinos
- Advice on gaming hall / AWP regulations
- Advice on regulation of betting shops
- Advice on online casino and sports betting
- Advice on the legal framework for fantasy betting
- Advice on regulation of horse betting
- Advice on legal framework for social gaming
- Advice on regulation of lotteries and bingo
- Advice on gambling-related payment solutions
- Strategic advice regarding future trends
- Licensing & compliance
- Casino licensing procedures
- Arcade and gaming hall concessions
- Advice on betting shop concessions
- Sports betting licensing process
- Brokering licences for online lotteries
- AML compliance
- Legal support in day-to-day operations (e.g. regarding customer support)
- Accreditation of age verification tools with German authorities
- Accreditation of test labs with gambling regulators
- Lobbying
- Lobby work with gambling regulators
- Foundation of trade groups
- Representation of gambling companies in trade groups
- Lobby work with European Commission
- Lobby work with tax authorities
- Litigation
- Administrative procedure
- Interstate Treaty restrictions & interdictions
- Interlocutory relief
- Legal defence against player claims
- Legal representation in German supreme courts & constitutional courts
- Commercial
- Establishment of local companies
- Due diligence for gambling-related M&A transactions
- Advertising and contracts
- Trademark issues and litigation
- Advice on competition law risks
- Terms & Conditions
- Tax advice
- Taxation of land-based casinos & gaming halls
- Sports betting tax
- Taxation of online casinos including VAT
- Lottery tax
- Tax registration and reporting
- Tax litigation
- Legal defence against prosecution of tax crimes
- Finance & capital market law
- Regulatory advice
- Representation in dealing with supervisory authorities
- Outsourcing of parts of the business
- Approval procedures for credit and financial service institutions
- Establishment of compliance systems and internal security procedures
- Alternative means ofpayment (for example bitcoins, payment cards)
- Stock & capital market
- Liability for inappropriate investment counseling
- Design and review of (security) prospectus
- Preparation and support of bond issues and initial public offerings
- Mezzanine financing
- Bank contract law
- Credit contracts and syndication
- Credit and payment securities
- Financing of acquisitions and collateralisation
- Sector-specific contract conditions
- Litigation & Arbitration
- Real estate
- Legal Due Diligence
- Land, condominium and part ownership, heritable building rights: creation and transactions
- Hedging instruments
- Condominium ownership
- From old to new, protection of historical monuments
- Facility management
- Energy saving contracting
- Project development
- Property purchase
- Advice on public tenders, PPP projects
- Development of building areas, advice on development and land use planning including project and development plans, preparation and negotiation of urban development contracts
- Advice on urban development and restructuring measures
- Advice on the project and award structure under private law and on contract models
- Drafting and review of project and construction contracts (architects, consortium, property developers, building contractors, BIM, energy saving contracting, general planners, general transferee, general contractors, GMP contracts, prefabricated housing sector, FIDIC, engineers, PPP models, project developers, project controllers, subcontractors)
- Preparation and execution of tenders under private law
- Support in contract negotiations
- Realisation
- Federal State Building Order (approval of construction projects/bringing the intended project to the knowledge of the building authority, neighborhood protection, pollution control, preservation statute and protection of historical monuments)
- Claim management and defence against amendments
- Warranty management
- Construction related and strategic support, mainly with regard to large-scale construction projects and plant construction (for example construction of power plants, industrial plants) as well as securing and asserting receivables
- Examination of supplements and justification
- Advice on receivables due to construction delays
- Support in a crises, for example in case of loss of construction parties
- Criminal construction law (anti-competitive agreements, illegal employment, construction hazards, environmental crimes, fraud and embezzlement in accounting)
- Preparation and supervision of the acceptance
- Audit of partial and final invoices
- Utilisation
- Drafting of commercial rental and leasing contracts
- Design of sale and rent-back/lease-back models
- Support in contract negotiations, termination and questions regarding current leasing
- Seminars & training courses
- Seminars and (inhouse) training courses in all mentioned fields of competence
- Conflict resolution
- Defence against claims
- Preservation of evidence
- Conflict avoidance through contract design
- Strategic advice in the event of conflict
- Remuneration, supplements and prosecution of material defects
- Objections of neighbouring parties and opposition proceedings
- Official conflict management, e.g. construction shutdown
- Judicial review proceedings, allocation complaint and review procedures
- Ordinary jurisdiction, arbitration, ombudsman proceedings and other conciliation procedures including arbitration agreements
- Interlocutory relief
- References
- Consultation of an energy infrastructural company acting across Europe with more than 12.000 employees and an annual business volume of approximately 2 billion Euros
- Extensive counseling of a Bundesliga soccer club in its implementation of a training center for young talents including its financing by a fan bond
- Support of a paper manufacturer with the tender, contractual negotiation (with international dimension) and the installation of paper machine with heating and power station. Total investment volume: approx. 600 million Euros
- Legal assistance of the architects ordered with the planning of the construction project “Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein”, construction volume approx. 520 million Euros
- Legal advice of the Entwicklungsgesellschaft Heidelberg with regard to the development of the new part of town called “Bahnstadt” in Heidelberg. The total investment volume amounts to more than 2 billion Euros
- IT & data protection
- IT & E-Commerce
- Draft of contracts concerning development, distribution, licensing and maintenance of software and hardware
- IT projects
- Outsourcing/shared services
- Set-up and design of e-commerce platforms
- Data protection
- Data protection
- Data protection compliance within the company’s organisation
- Data protection concerning marketing and distribution
- Data protection concerning labour law (private use of operational means, internal investigations, shared-services)
- Cloud computing
- Advice and representation in case of infringements of data protection
- Litigation & arbitration
- Handling of failed IT projects
- Insurances
- Insurance supervisory
- Insurance supervisory law (inter alia new foundation, entry into the German market, development of new business areas, measures of the supervisory authorities)
- Insurance intermediary law (inter alia license proceedings and registration of insurance intermediaries)
- Insurance products & insurance distribution
- Insurance policy law (inter alia design of group insurance contracts and general terms and conditions)
- Insurance distribution law (inter alia establishment of distribution structures, online-distribution, affiliate marketing)
- Delicate Claims Management
- Anti-money laundering
- Intellectual property / media / advertising & PR
- Trademarks & patents
- Draft of property right strategies
- Application and control of trademarks and other property rights
- Delimitation and prior rights agreements
- Enforcement of trademarks and industrial property rights
- Defence of trademark and patent infringements
- Launch of new products
- National and international technology transfer
- Purchase and sale of property rights
- Trademark license agreements and other property right licenses
- Patent agreements and know-how license agreements
- Copyright & design law
- Copyright agreements, publishing contracts
- Draft of agreements regarding multimedia analysis
- Artists‘ contracts and producers‘ contracts
- Concert and show contracts
- Advertising music contracts
- Design contracts and utility model licenses
- Enforcement of copyrights
- Defence against copyright infringements and product imitations
- Launch of new products
- Competition law
- Competition law
- Preparation of advertising and merchandising measures
- Preparation of advertising and merchandising measures
- Preparation of advertising and merchandising measures
- Representation in disputes regarding competition law
- Representation in disputes regarding competition law
- Interim injunctions in order to enforce competitive legal positions
- Caveat against unauthorized use by competitors
- Protection against counterfeiting and misappropriation
- Protection against misleading and comparing advertising
- Antitrust law
- Antitrust law
- Purchase cooperations, distribution cooperations
- Distribution antitrust law
- Conception of selective distribution systems
- Control of online distribution, price competition on the internet
- Research and development cooperations
- Cartels of medium-size enterprises and other cooperations
- Drafting contracts under antitrust law aspects
- Drafting contracts under antitrust law aspects
- Draft of contracts considering antitrust law
- Defence against the exploitation of market power, delivery blocks
- Notification of mergers
- Registration of mergers
- Notification of mergers/merger control proceedings
- Representation before the Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission
- Press & Media
- Coordination and negotiations with media representatives
- „Strategic press law“ – preparation to the media crises and strategic support after publication
- Press releases and interviews with press, radio and TV journalists
- Enforcement of injunctive relieves due to insult, defamation
- Counterstatements, revocations/corrections, damages
- Advertising & public relations
- Individual advertising for customers and future customers
- Examination of advertising measures, compliance
- Advertising agencies
- Agreements with advertising parties
- Sponsoring agreements
- Litigation
- Litigation
- Infringement trials
- Summary proceedings, interim injunctions
- Opposition proceedings
- Annulment proceedings
- Conflict resolution
- Strategic consulting & conflict strategies
- Analysis of facts and legal situation in case of a potential conflict
- Assessment of process, liability and cost risks
- Creation of a negotiation position and of solution proposals
- Advice, support and representation in negotiations with the opposing party
- Prior to a conflict: Drafting of jurisdiction and choice of law clauses as well as of arbitration agreements
- Litigation & arbitration
- Litigation & arbitration
- Litigation & arbitration
- Litigation in state courts (except before the Federal Court of Justice in civil matters)
- Evidence securing procedures
- Arbitration proceedings before institutional or ad hoc arbitral courts
- Interlocutory relief & legal enforcement
- Interim injunction
- Interim order
- Arrest
- Default action
- Compulsory execution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution - ADR
- Mediation
- Arbitrator's report, activity as arbitrator
- Conciliation proceedings
- Representation before authorities & preliminary procedures
- Administrative procedures
- Opposition proceedings
- Public participation procedure
- Review procedures
- Administrative offense proceedings and administrative fine proceedings
- Criminal proceedings
- Cross-border legal disputes
- Advice and representation of foreign clients in Germany
- Support in proceedings before foreign courts
- Providing contacts of specialized law firms abroad
- Acknowledgment proceedings and enforcement of foreign judgments in Germany
- Notary’s office in Berlin
- Real estate law
- Purchase & sale of land, home and partial ownerships, lease holds
- Registration of mortgages
- Plot division
- Creation of lease holds
- Family and inheritance law
- Marriage contracts and „consequences of divorce agreements“
- Last wills and inheritance contracts
- Applications of certificates of inheritance & refusals of inheritance
- Estate inventory
- Adoptions
- Business and corporate law
- Foundation of partnerships and corporations
- Conversion, mergers & liquidation
- Registrations in the commercial register
- Preparation of the lists to be presented by the commercial register
- General civil law
- Powers of attorney
- Promissory letters
- Certificates
- Affidavits
- Notarisations & authentication
- Raffles & draws
- Private Clients
- Succession planning & donation
- Succession counselling and planning, support in family internal communication
- Succession counselling and planning, support in family internal communication
- Anticipated inheritance, draft of donation agreements
- Draft of testamentary dispositions (wills, inheritance contracts)
- Draft of testamentary dispositions (wills, inheritance contracts)
- Agreements on waiver of compulsory share
- Establishment of foundations, donations
- Establishment of foundations, donations
- Clarification and draft of succession issues under private international law
- Clarification and draft of succession issues under international private law
- Inheritance distribution and execution of a will
- Inheritance proceedings
- Precautionary documents
- Precautionary power
- Care directive
- Patient directive
- Marriage agreements
- Marriage agreement
- Cohabitation agreement
- Partnership agreement
- White Collar Crime & Tax Criminal Law
- Commercial criminal law
- Preventive advice
- Preventive advice
- Legal assistance in search and seizure proceedings
- Legal assistance in search and seizure proceedings
- Defence in criminal (investigation) proceedings and administrative offence proceedings
- Defence in criminal (investigation) proceedings and administrative offence proceedings
- Tax criminal law
- Advice and representation in proceedings for voluntary reporting under criminal tax law
- Compliance
- Draft of compliance systems
- Creation of compliance rules
- (In-house-) compliance trainings and seminars
- Review of existing compliance systems
- Internal investigations for current reasons or to uncover weaknesses in the company organisation and the compliance system
- Compliance Due Diligence Audit for M&A
- Advice and representation in case of compliance infringements
- Advice and representation in compliance infringements
- Enforcement of recourse claims
- Defence at all German courts in all instances
- Enforcement of recourse claims by companies against employees in the event of compliance violations
- Distribution & (international) trade
- Distribution & franchise systems
- Law of commercial agencies
- Authorised dealer law
- Law of authorized dealers
- Franchise agreements
- Affiliate marketing
- Draft of other distribution structures
- E-Commerce
- E-Commerce
- Webshops
- Social Media
- Representation before the Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission
- Foreign trade legislation, export control & embargos
- Establishing and audits of compliance systems
- Advice on German and European provisions regarding export control and embargos
- Support in licensing proceedings (German Federal Office of Economics and Export Control)
- US-(re) export law
- Draft and negotiation of cross-border supply and service agreements
- General Terms and Conditions
- Draft, examination and implementation of General Terms and Conditions
- Economy & State - Public law
- Construction & planning
- Advice on the preparation and modification of land use and zoning plans
- Project-related building development plans, drafting and negotiating of urban development contracts (in particular execution contracts) for the purpose of developing a building area or realising large-scale investment projects (retail, commerce, industry, residential and home building)
- Advice on building permit processes and notification procedures
- Execution of and advice on plan approval procedures including participation of the public
- Advice on immission control approval procedures for the purpose of establishing or expanding businesses (industry and commerce, energy facilities, sports facilities, leisure facilities)
- Protection of historical monuments
- Advice on development contributions and municipal levies
- Environment & waste management
- Advice on immission control (in particular noise, odour) in the context of immission control permits, approaching construction or subsequent requirements (in particular defence against production-restricting regulations)
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental liability of companies
- Contaminated sites and soil protection
- Sewage disposal, indirect discharge of commercial and industrial wastewater, advice on and support in licensing procedures of sewage treatment plants, levying of fees and charges
- Waste disposal, draft and negotiation of disposal agreements of commercial and industrial waste including power station residues; advice on and support in licensing procedures
- Waste shipment – requirements under public law and contract law
- Chemicals legislation
- Infrastructure: air, rail & road
- Advice on regional planning, land use and development planning
- Advising project developers as well as municipalities and adjoining residents on the execution of planning approval and licensing procedures [planning, construction and operation of airports, rail networks, (long-distance) road construction].
- Replacement and compensatory measures (nature and landscape), protection requirements
- Advice on the conduct of expropriation procedures
- Advice on the raising of objections, the holding of the discussion hearing and the conduct of litigation proceedings
- Support for tenders for railway tracks and networks
- Award and construction of roads including preparation of PPP and financing models in the road traffic
- Public enterprises & municipalities
- Formal privatization of state and municipal companies including due diligence
- Sale of municipal shareholdings
- Conception and structuring of models for the inclusion of private individuals in the fulfilment of public tasks, e.g. in the field of recycling management law, water law or transport infrastructure
- Foundation of mixed-economy enterprises of different legal forms
- Legal support in bidding procedures for the privatisation of public utilities and waste disposal companies as well as the award of service and construction contracts including concessions
- Advice on municipal law in all 16 federal states
- Municipal Tax Law and Development Contribution Law
- Procurement & Public Private Partnership
- Structuring and implementation of national and EU-wide procurement procedures
- Support of public clients and bidders in tenders for construction projects and services as well as concessions (according to GWB, VgV, VOB/A as well as budget law)
- Support for public contracting authorities and bidders in awarding contracts in the sectors of energy (gas, heat, electricity), water and transport services (according to SektVO)
- Advice on the draft of models without procurement (for example inhouse-procurement, horizontal cooperation of public entities, amendment of existing contracts) and in competitive tendering procedures (as architectural competitions) outside procurement law
- Development of PPP and financing models for road traffic and municipal buildings (e.g. day-care centres, schools, fire stations, courts, swimming pools, multi-purpose halls), assistance in investor selection procedures
- Representation of awarding authorities and bidders in procurement review procedures
- Grants & subsidies
- Support with grant applications
- Advice on compliance with relevant regulations and requirements for investment grants
- Defence against reclaims for subsidies
- Legal protection in connection with competition lawsuits (enforcement of and defence against corresponding claims)
- European law & international law
- European environmental and technology law
- European subsidy law
- Application of EU regulations and effects of EU directives in national law
- Advice to public authorities and investors on transnational projects
- Advice on international treaties (e.g. double taxation agreements, ECHR, WTO agreements, UN Charter, Geneva Convention)
- Legislative procedures
- Advice on and support in coping with legislative bodies and political organisations, observation and analysis of political developments during the legislative process
- Drafting of argumentation lines and statements in the context of participation in the political decision-making process
- Draft of initiative presentations within the lobbying work of industries and associations
- Litigation & representation before authorities
- Representation before local, state and federal authorities as well as before arbitral courts, German and European courts
- Seminars & training
- We offer seminars and in-house training courses on all of the aforementioned topics for both public clients and companies.
- Recruiting, drafting of employment contracts, current employment
- Labour law / HR
- Legal aspects of personnel recruitment, selection and hiring of personnel
- Employment contracts and connected agreements
- Fixed-term employment law (fixed-term employment with or without a material reason, fixed-term employment beyond retirement age)
- Variable payment (target agreements, royalties, commissions, bonuses, long- and short-term incentives, employee participation)
- Variable working hours (flexible work time, capacity-oriented work time, trust-based working hours, working hours accounts)
- Part-time work inside and outside parental leave, care and family leave, sabbaticals
- Corporate integration management
- Written warnings
- Notice of terminations, cancellation and winding-up agreements
- References
- Employment of temporary workers
- Work contracts, service contracts, avoidance of bogus self-employment
- Supply of temporary workers
- Management contracts
- Transactions, restructuring & reorganisation
- Due diligence concerning labour law
- Negotiation and draft of transfer of or change in operations
- Draft of new operational structures
- Adjustment and draft of working conditions and payment structures
- Staff reduction measures (reconciliation of interests, social plans, collective redundancies, actions for dismissal protection)
- Works council, economic committee, personnel council, employee representation, representation of severely disabled persons
- Advice of enterprises without a works council (employee communication without works council, alternative employee representation, advice on questions regarding the initiation or avoidance of the establishment of a works council)
- Establishment of a works council, works council elections, appeal against works council elections
- Constructive cooperation with the works council (communication with the works council, right to information of the works council, monthly meetings, works council meetings, works council training, cost for works council training etc.)
- Limits to constructive cooperation: exclusion of individual works council members or dissolution of the works council due to gross breaches of duty; termination of works council members
- Advice and support in all questions of co-determination of the works council under works constitution law (e.g. recruitment, transfer, dismissal, working time models, overtime, remuneration, data processing, employee monitoring, social media etc.)
- Negotiation and drafting of works agreements and ( in-house ) collective agreements
- Negotiation of reconciliations of interest and social plans in case of restructuring and lay-offs
- Representation and support of the employer in conciliation bodies
- Representation and support of the employer in other disputes with the works council outside and in court
- Advising the employer on how to deal with the representative body for severely handicapped persons
- Matters regarding board and managing directors
- Draft of service agreements for management and board members as well as for executives, draft of rules of procedure for board members and management
- Negotiation and draft of separation agreements
- Termination of the employment contract and litigation in the termination and compensation process
- Drafting agreements on non-compete and post-contractual non-compete clauses; representation in litigation, in particular interim injunctions for omission of competition
- Directors & Officers Liability and D&O insurance
- Company pension
- Deferred compensation
- Restructuring of existing and introduction of new pension models (choice of the pension model: direct pension, direct insurance, support fund, pension funds, etc.)
- Adjustment or denial of the adjustment of company pensions pursuant to § 16 BetrAVG
- Social security
- Employment of temporary workers, assignment of workers, freelance contributor models and avoidance of bogus self-employment and bogus work agreement
- Managers subject to social security
- International social insurance for secondments or parallel activities in several host countries
- Representation in all individual and collective disputes before the labor courts (labor court, regional labor court, federal labor court) and, in particular in disputes between managing directors and board members and the company, the ordinary courts (regional court, higher regional court, representation before the Federal Supreme Court)
- Support and representation of the employer in the conciliation committee
- International labour law
- Design of cross-border employee assignments (labour, social security and residence permit law, inbound and outbound)
- Advice of German subsidiaries of international companies
- Advice of German clients with regard to foreign subsidiaries
- Cross-border restructuring
- Enterprises / Corporate & Commercial
- General company law
- Conception and establishment of companies
- Articles of association and shareholder agreements
- Amendments to the articles of association, capital measures
- Design of the organisational structure and advice on corporate governance issues
- Internal company disputes
- Preparation and support of shareholders' meetings and annual general meetings, resolution deficiency proceedings
- Liquidation of companies
- Advice for start-ups
- Corporate housekeeping
- Restructuring & reorganisation
- Change of legal form
- Mergers
- Demergers, in particular spin-offs and split-offs of parts of companies
- Creation of holding structures
- Intercompany agreements and other group legal relationships
- Restructuring & insolvency
- Advice close to insolvency
- Design and support of redevelopment concepts
- Preparation and support of insolvency plan procedures
- Counseling of creditors, management and shareholders
- Insolvency administration
- Company succession
- Adaptation of articles of association to the needs of succession planning
- Restructuring of companies and group of companies with regard to succession planning
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Conception and prospectus of investment funds
- Venture capital and private equity financings
- Advice in connection with IPOs
- Support of company acquisitions on the buyer and seller side, including due diligence reviews and post-M&A disputes
- Corporate governance & compliance
- Compliance guidelines and operational instructions
- Compliance management systems
- Design of the internal corporate structures
- Allocation of responsibilities
- Rules of procedure
- Representation of companies and managers in matters of managing directors' and board members' liability
- (International) trade
- General terms and conditions
- Non-disclosure agreements
- Commercial purchase
- Law of commercial agents
- Freight and forwarding law
- International commercial law
- Distribution law
- Foreign trade legislation, export control & embargos
- Distribution antitrust law
- Representation in dealing with the Federal antitrust authorities and the European Commission
- Application for exemption from the non-compete obligation
- Application for exemption from the non-compete obligation
- Airlines & aviation
- Claims management
- Cargo transport
- Advice regarding IT and e-commerce
- Advice regarding relationships to Ground Handling Partners (airport operators as for example Fraport AG, Airport Service Companies etc.) and IATA contract system
- Labour law
- Right of residence
- Trainings
- Design of General Conditions of Carriage and General Queries on Flight Handling
- Enforcement/defence of claims against third parties
- Data protection law
- Employee data protection
- Draft and implementation of technical and organisational measures pursuant to the Federal Data Protection Act
- Company organisation in compliance with data protection law, outsourcing
- Development of (also cross-bordered, integrated) CRM data bases
- Direct marketing campaigns, co-marketing, co-branding, social media
- Generation and use of qualified leads/data of interested parties
- Commercial tenancy law
- Drafting of commercial rental and leasing contracts
- Design of sale and rent-back/lease-back models
- Support and accompaniment of contract negotiations, termination and questions of ongoing leases
- Litigation, arbitration & ADR
- Representation before all local, regional and higher regional courts in civil proceedings
- Arbitration proceedings
- Alternative dispute resolution proceedings, for example mediation
- Competence
- Distribution cartel law
- Proceedings before public procurement courts
Berlin
- Construction law & real estate
- Real estate
- Project planning
- Realisation
- Conflict resolution
- Seminars & training courses
- References
- Legal Due Diligence
- Land, condominium and part ownership, heritable building rights: creation and transactions
- Hedging instruments
- Condominium ownership
- Project development
- Property purchase
- Advice on public tenders, PPP projects
- Federal State Building Order (approval of construction projects/bringing the intended project to the knowledge of the building authority, neighborhood protection, pollution control, preservation statute and protection of historical monuments)
- Claim management and defence against amendments
- Warranty management
- Defence against claims
- Preservation of evidence
- Interlocutory relief
- Seminars and (inhouse) training courses in all mentioned fields of competence
- Project planning
- Construction law & real estate
- Conflict resolution
- Strategic consulting & conflict strategies
- Private Clients
- Energy
- Enterprises / Corporate & Commercial
- Economy & State - Public law
- Gaming & Betting Law Practice Group
- Gaming & betting
- Advice on regulation of land-based casinos
- Construction & planning
- Environment & waste management
- Infrastructure: air, rail & road
- Public enterprises & municipalities
- Procurement & Public Private Partnership
- Grants & subsidies
- European law & international law
- Legislative procedures
- Litigation & representation before authorities
- Representation before local, state and federal authorities as well as before arbitral courts, German and European courts
- Advice on and support in coping with legislative bodies and political organisations, observation and analysis of political developments during the legislative process
- Drafting of argumentation lines and statements in the context of participation in the political decision-making process
- Draft of initiative presentations within the lobbying work of industries and associations
- From old to new, protection of historical monuments
- Finance & capital market law
- Regulatory advice
- Representation in dealing with supervisory authorities
- Outsourcing of parts of the business
- Approval procedures for credit and financial service institutions
- Establishment of compliance systems and internal security procedures
- Alternative means ofpayment (for example bitcoins, payment cards)
- Stock & capital market
- Liability for inappropriate investment counseling
- Design and review of (security) prospectus
- Preparation and support of bond issues and initial public offerings
- Mezzanine financing
- Bank contract law
- Credit contracts and syndication
- Credit and payment securities
- Financing of acquisitions and collateralisation
- Sector-specific contract conditions
- Litigation & Arbitration
- Facility management
- Energy saving contracting
- Development of building areas, advice on development and land use planning including project and development plans, preparation and negotiation of urban development contracts
- Advice on urban development and restructuring measures
- Advice on the project and award structure under private law and on contract models
- Drafting and review of project and construction contracts (architects, consortium, property developers, building contractors, BIM, energy saving contracting, general planners, general transferee, general contractors, GMP contracts, prefabricated housing sector, FIDIC, engineers, PPP models, project developers, project controllers, subcontractors)
- Preparation and execution of tenders under private law
- Support in contract negotiations
- Construction related and strategic support, mainly with regard to large-scale construction projects and plant construction (for example construction of power plants, industrial plants) as well as securing and asserting receivables
- Examination of supplements and justification
- Advice on receivables due to construction delays
- Support in a crises, for example in case of loss of construction parties
- Criminal construction law (anti-competitive agreements, illegal employment, construction hazards, environmental crimes, fraud and embezzlement in accounting)
- Preparation and supervision of the acceptance
- Audit of partial and final invoices
- Utilisation
- Drafting of commercial rental and leasing contracts
- Design of sale and rent-back/lease-back models
- Support in contract negotiations, termination and questions regarding current leasing
- Conflict avoidance through contract design
- Strategic advice in the event of conflict
- Remuneration, supplements and prosecution of material defects
- Objections of neighbouring parties and opposition proceedings
- Official conflict management, e.g. construction shutdown
- Judicial review proceedings, allocation complaint and review procedures
- Ordinary jurisdiction, arbitration, ombudsman proceedings and other conciliation procedures including arbitration agreements
- Consultation of an energy infrastructural company acting across Europe with more than 12.000 employees and an annual business volume of approximately 2 billion Euros
- Extensive counseling of a Bundesliga soccer club in its implementation of a training center for young talents including its financing by a fan bond
- Support of a paper manufacturer with the tender, contractual negotiation (with international dimension) and the installation of paper machine with heating and power station. Total investment volume: approx. 600 million Euros
- Legal assistance of the architects ordered with the planning of the construction project “Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein”, construction volume approx. 520 million Euros
- Legal advice of the Entwicklungsgesellschaft Heidelberg with regard to the development of the new part of town called “Bahnstadt” in Heidelberg. The total investment volume amounts to more than 2 billion Euros
- Energy plant construction
- Goal-oriented execution of land use planning procedures and approval procedures
- Allocation of planning and construction orders
- Advice during a construction project
- Legal advice around subsidies
- Infrastructural measures
- Goal-oriented execution of land use planning procedures and approval procedures
- Allocation of planning and construction orders
- Advice during a construction project
- Legal advice around subsidies
- Networks
- Planning, allocation and construction of networks
- Counseling with regard to scenarios and network development plans
- Goal-oriented execution of land use planning procedures and approval procedures
- Network access, network charge
- Energy contracting
- Draft and negotiation of contracting agreements for process heat and electricity
- Construction and operation of generating plants
- Easements and heritage building rights
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Grid connection, electricity feed and financial support
- Energy saving contracting for industry and municipalities
- Licenses
- Granting of energy licenses
- Drafting and negotiating of simple and qualified easement agreements pursuant to the law on the energy industry
- Advising of energy supply companies and municipalities
- Energy contract law
- Drafting and negotiating of gas and electricity supply contracts for industry and trade
- Drafting and negotiating of supply contracts referring to process heat and district heating supply
- Fuel supply contracts, disposal of power plant residues
- Drafting and negotiating of fuel supply contracts including price adjustment clauses, fuel specifications and sampling provisions
- Drafting and negotiating of disposal contracts for power plant residues
- Advice on the Closed Cycle Waste Management Act and Landfill Ordinance
- Renewable energies
- Goal-oriented implementation of planning and approval procedures
- Assigning planning and construction contracts
- Grid connection, electricity feed, direct marketing and financial support according to the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG)
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Acquisition, sale and restructuring of supply companies
- Due diligence
- Drafting and negotiating of share purchase agreements
- Operational transfer in accordance with § 613a BGB (German Civil Code)
- Antitrust advice
- Investment consulting, participation in energy plants (parks) and grids
- Litigation, arbitration and representation before authorities
- Advising and support in planning approval procedures and licensing procedures including public involvement (participation in discussion meetings)
- Counseling regarding objections against planned projects, opposition and claim against licenses and licensing conditions
- Acting for citizens’ initiatives
- Handling of arbitration proceedings as arbitrator or counsel
- Conducting legal action before administrative courts and the ordinary courts including interlocutory relief
- Advice on gaming hall / AWP regulations
- Advice on regulation of betting shops
- Advice on online casino and sports betting
- Advice on the legal framework for fantasy betting
- Advice on regulation of horse betting
- Advice on legal framework for social gaming
- Advice on regulation of lotteries and bingo
- Advice on gambling-related payment solutions
- Strategic advice regarding future trends
- Licensing & compliance
- Casino licensing procedures
- Arcade and gaming hall concessions
- Advice on betting shop concessions
- Sports betting licensing process
- Brokering licences for online lotteries
- AML compliance
- Legal support in day-to-day operations (e.g. regarding customer support)
- Accreditation of age verification tools with German authorities
- Accreditation of test labs with gambling regulators
- Lobbying
- Lobby work with gambling regulators
- Foundation of trade groups
- Representation of gambling companies in trade groups
- Lobby work with European Commission
- Lobby work with tax authorities
- Litigation
- Administrative procedure
- Interstate Treaty restrictions & interdictions
- Interlocutory relief
- Legal defence against player claims
- Legal representation in German supreme courts & constitutional courts
- Commercial
- Establishment of local companies
- Due diligence for gambling-related M&A transactions
- Advertising and contracts
- Trademark issues and litigation
- Advice on competition law risks
- Terms & Conditions
- Tax advice
- Taxation of land-based casinos & gaming halls
- Sports betting tax
- Taxation of online casinos including VAT
- Lottery tax
- Tax registration and reporting
- Tax litigation
- Legal defence against prosecution of tax crimes
- Intellectual property / media / advertising & PR
- Trademarks & patents
- Draft of property right strategies
- Application and control of trademarks and other property rights
- Delimitation and prior rights agreements
- Enforcement of trademarks and industrial property rights
- Defence of trademark and patent infringements
- Launch of new products
- National and international technology transfer
- Purchase and sale of property rights
- Trademark license agreements and other property right licenses
- Patent agreements and know-how license agreements
- Copyright & design law
- Copyright agreements, publishing contracts
- Draft of agreements regarding multimedia analysis
- Artists‘ contracts and producers‘ contracts
- Concert and show contracts
- Advertising music contracts
- Design contracts and utility model licenses
- Enforcement of copyrights
- Defence against copyright infringements and product imitations
- Launch of new products
- Competition law
- Preparation of advertising and merchandising measures
- Representation in disputes regarding competition law
- Interim injunctions in order to enforce competitive legal positions
- Caveat against unauthorized use by competitors
- Protection against counterfeiting and misappropriation
- Protection against misleading and comparing advertising
- Antitrust law
- Purchase cooperations, distribution cooperations
- Distribution antitrust law
- Conception of selective distribution systems
- Control of online distribution, price competition on the internet
- Research and development cooperations
- Cartels of medium-size enterprises and other cooperations
- Draft of contracts considering antitrust law
- Defence against the exploitation of market power, delivery blocks
- Registration of mergers
- Representation before the Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission
- Press & Media
- Coordination and negotiations with media representatives
- „Strategic press law“ – preparation to the media crises and strategic support after publication
- Press releases and interviews with press, radio and TV journalists
- Enforcement of injunctive relieves due to insult, defamation
- Counterstatements, revocations/corrections, damages
- Advertising & public relations
- Preparation of advertising and merchandising measures
- Individual advertising for customers and future customers
- Examination of advertising measures, compliance
- Advertising agencies
- Agreements with advertising parties
- Sponsoring agreements
- Litigation
- Infringement trials
- Summary proceedings, interim injunctions
- Opposition proceedings
- Annulment proceedings
- IT & data protection
- IT & E-Commerce
- Draft of contracts concerning development, distribution, licensing and maintenance of software and hardware
- IT projects
- Outsourcing/shared services
- Set-up and design of e-commerce platforms
- Data protection
- Data protection compliance within the company’s organisation
- Data protection concerning marketing and distribution
- Data protection concerning labour law (private use of operational means, internal investigations, shared-services)
- Cloud computing
- Advice and representation in case of infringements of data protection
- Litigation & arbitration
- Handling of failed IT projects
- Prior to a conflict: Drafting of jurisdiction and choice of law clauses as well as of arbitration agreements
- Analysis of facts and legal situation in case of a potential conflict
- Assessment of process, liability and cost risks
- Creation of a negotiation position and of solution proposals
- Advice, support and representation in negotiations with the opposing party
- Litigation & arbitration
- Litigation in state courts (except before the Federal Court of Justice in civil matters)
- Evidence securing procedures
- Arbitration proceedings before institutional or ad hoc arbitral courts
- Proceedings before public procurement courts
- Interlocutory relief & legal enforcement
- Interim injunction
- Interim order
- Arrest
- Default action
- Compulsory execution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution - ADR
- Mediation
- Arbitrator's report, activity as arbitrator
- Conciliation proceedings
- Representation before authorities & preliminary procedures
- Administrative procedures
- Opposition proceedings
- Public participation procedure
- Review procedures
- Administrative offense proceedings and administrative fine proceedings
- Criminal proceedings
- Cross-border legal disputes
- Advice and representation of foreign clients in Germany
- Support in proceedings before foreign courts
- Providing contacts of specialized law firms abroad
- Acknowledgment proceedings and enforcement of foreign judgments in Germany
- Notary’s office in Berlin
- Real estate law
- Purchase & sale of land, home and partial ownerships, lease holds
- Registration of mortgages
- Plot division
- Creation of lease holds
- Family and inheritance law
- Marriage contracts and „consequences of divorce agreements“
- Last wills and inheritance contracts
- Applications of certificates of inheritance & refusals of inheritance
- Estate inventory
- Adoptions
- Business and corporate law
- Foundation of partnerships and corporations
- Conversion, mergers & liquidation
- Registrations in the commercial register
- Preparation of the lists to be presented by the commercial register
- General civil law
- Powers of attorney
- Promissory letters
- Certificates
- Affidavits
- Notarisations & authentication
- Raffles & draws
- Labour law / HR
- Recruiting, drafting of employment contracts, current employment
- Legal aspects of personnel recruitment, selection and hiring of personnel
- Employment contracts and connected agreements
- Fixed-term employment law (fixed-term employment with or without a material reason, fixed-term employment beyond retirement age)
- Variable payment (target agreements, royalties, commissions, bonuses, long- and short-term incentives, employee participation)
- Variable working hours (flexible work time, capacity-oriented work time, trust-based working hours, working hours accounts)
- Part-time work inside and outside parental leave, care and family leave, sabbaticals
- Corporate integration management
- Written warnings
- Notice of terminations, cancellation and winding-up agreements
- References
- Employment of temporary workers
- Work contracts, service contracts, avoidance of bogus self-employment
- Supply of temporary workers
- Management contracts
- Transactions, restructuring & reorganisation
- Due diligence concerning labour law
- Negotiation and draft of transfer of or change in operations
- Draft of new operational structures
- Adjustment and draft of working conditions and payment structures
- Staff reduction measures (reconciliation of interests, social plans, collective redundancies, actions for dismissal protection)
- Works council, economic committee, personnel council, employee representation, representation of severely disabled persons
- Advice of enterprises without a works council (employee communication without works council, alternative employee representation, advice on questions regarding the initiation or avoidance of the establishment of a works council)
- Establishment of a works council, works council elections, appeal against works council elections
- Constructive cooperation with the works council (communication with the works council, right to information of the works council, monthly meetings, works council meetings, works council training, cost for works council training etc.)
- Limits to constructive cooperation: exclusion of individual works council members or dissolution of the works council due to gross breaches of duty; termination of works council members
- Advice and support in all questions of co-determination of the works council under works constitution law (e.g. recruitment, transfer, dismissal, working time models, overtime, remuneration, data processing, employee monitoring, social media etc.)
- Negotiation and drafting of works agreements and ( in-house ) collective agreements
- Negotiation of reconciliations of interest and social plans in case of restructuring and lay-offs
- Representation and support of the employer in conciliation bodies
- Representation and support of the employer in other disputes with the works council outside and in court
- Advising the employer on how to deal with the representative body for severely handicapped persons
- Matters regarding board and managing directors
- Draft of service agreements for management and board members as well as for executives, draft of rules of procedure for board members and management
- Negotiation and draft of separation agreements
- Termination of the employment contract and litigation in the termination and compensation process
- Drafting agreements on non-compete and post-contractual non-compete clauses; representation in litigation, in particular interim injunctions for omission of competition
- Directors & Officers Liability and D&O insurance
- Company pension
- Deferred compensation
- Restructuring of existing and introduction of new pension models (choice of the pension model: direct pension, direct insurance, support fund, pension funds, etc.)
- Adjustment or denial of the adjustment of company pensions pursuant to § 16 BetrAVG
- Social security
- Employment of temporary workers, assignment of workers, freelance contributor models and avoidance of bogus self-employment and bogus work agreement
- Managers subject to social security
- International social insurance for secondments or parallel activities in several host countries
- Litigation & arbitration
- Representation in all individual and collective disputes before the labor courts (labor court, regional labor court, federal labor court) and, in particular in disputes between managing directors and board members and the company, the ordinary courts (regional court, higher regional court, representation before the Federal Supreme Court)
- Support and representation of the employer in the conciliation committee
- International labour law
- Design of cross-border employee assignments (labour, social security and residence permit law, inbound and outbound)
- Advice of German subsidiaries of international companies
- Advice of German clients with regard to foreign subsidiaries
- Cross-border restructuring
- Succession planning & donation
- Succession counselling and planning, support in family internal communication
- Anticipated inheritance, draft of donation agreements
- Draft of testamentary dispositions (wills, inheritance contracts)
- Agreements on waiver of compulsory share
- Establishment of foundations, donations
- Clarification and draft of succession issues under private international law
- Inheritance distribution and execution of a will
- Inheritance proceedings
- Precautionary documents
- Precautionary power
- Care directive
- Patient directive
- Marriage agreements
- Marriage agreement
- Cohabitation agreement
- Partnership agreement
- General company law
- Conception and establishment of companies
- Articles of association and shareholder agreements
- Amendments to the articles of association, capital measures
- Design of the organisational structure and advice on corporate governance issues
- Preparation and support of shareholders' meetings and annual general meetings, resolution deficiency proceedings
- Internal company disputes
- Liquidation of companies
- Advice for start-ups
- Corporate housekeeping
- Restructuring & reorganisation
- Change of legal form
- Mergers
- Demergers, in particular spin-offs and split-offs of parts of companies
- Creation of holding structures
- Intercompany agreements and other group legal relationships
- Restructuring & insolvency
- Advice close to insolvency
- Design and support of redevelopment concepts
- Preparation and support of insolvency plan procedures
- Counseling of creditors, management and shareholders
- Insolvency administration
- Company succession
- Succession counselling and planning, support in family internal communication
- Draft of testamentary dispositions (wills, inheritance contracts)
- Adaptation of articles of association to the needs of succession planning
- Restructuring of companies and group of companies with regard to succession planning
- Establishment of foundations, donations
- Clarification and draft of succession issues under international private law
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Support of company acquisitions on the buyer and seller side, including due diligence reviews and post-M&A disputes
- Venture capital and private equity financings
- Conception and prospectus of investment funds
- Advice in connection with IPOs
- Corporate governance & compliance
- Design of the internal corporate structures
- Allocation of responsibilities
- Rules of procedure
- Representation of companies and managers in matters of managing directors' and board members' liability
- Compliance management systems
- Compliance guidelines and operational instructions
- Advice and representation in case of compliance infringements
- (International) trade
- General terms and conditions
- Non-disclosure agreements
- Commercial purchase
- Distribution law
- E-Commerce
- Law of commercial agents
- Law of authorized dealers
- Freight and forwarding law
- International commercial law
- Foreign trade legislation, export control & embargos
- Antitrust law
- Distribution antitrust law
- Application for exemption from the non-compete obligation
- Drafting contracts under antitrust law aspects
- Notification of mergers/merger control proceedings
- Representation in dealing with the Federal antitrust authorities and the European Commission
- Airlines & aviation
- Claims management
- Cargo transport
- Design of General Conditions of Carriage and General Queries on Flight Handling
- Advice regarding IT and e-commerce
- Advice regarding relationships to Ground Handling Partners (airport operators as for example Fraport AG, Airport Service Companies etc.) and IATA contract system
- Enforcement/defence of claims against third parties
- Labour law
- Right of residence
- Trainings
- Data protection law
- Employee data protection
- Draft and implementation of technical and organisational measures pursuant to the Federal Data Protection Act
- Company organisation in compliance with data protection law, outsourcing
- Development of (also cross-bordered, integrated) CRM data bases
- Direct marketing campaigns, co-marketing, co-branding, social media
- Generation and use of qualified leads/data of interested parties
- Commercial tenancy law
- Drafting of commercial rental and leasing contracts
- Design of sale and rent-back/lease-back models
- Support and accompaniment of contract negotiations, termination and questions of ongoing leases
- Litigation, arbitration & ADR
- Representation before all local, regional and higher regional courts in civil proceedings
- Arbitration proceedings
- Alternative dispute resolution proceedings, for example mediation
- Insurances
- Insurance supervisory
- Insurance supervisory law (inter alia new foundation, entry into the German market, development of new business areas, measures of the supervisory authorities)
- Insurance intermediary law (inter alia license proceedings and registration of insurance intermediaries)
- Insurance products & insurance distribution
- Insurance policy law (inter alia design of group insurance contracts and general terms and conditions)
- Insurance distribution law (inter alia establishment of distribution structures, online-distribution, affiliate marketing)
- Delicate Claims Management
- Anti-money laundering
- Data protection
- Distribution & (international) trade
- Distribution & franchise systems
- Law of commercial agencies
- Authorised dealer law
- Franchise agreements
- Affiliate marketing
- Draft of other distribution structures
- E-Commerce
- Webshops
- Social Media
- Competition law
- Preparation of advertising and merchandising measures
- Representation in disputes regarding competition law
- Distribution cartel law
- Application for exemption from the non-compete obligation
- Drafting contracts under antitrust law aspects
- Notification of mergers
- Representation before the Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission
- Establishing and audits of compliance systems
- Advice on German and European provisions regarding export control and embargos
- Support in licensing proceedings (German Federal Office of Economics and Export Control)
- US-(re) export law
- Foreign trade legislation, export control & embargos
- Draft and negotiation of cross-border supply and service agreements
- General Terms and Conditions
- Draft, examination and implementation of General Terms and Conditions
- Litigation & arbitration
- Advice on the preparation and modification of land use and zoning plans
- Project-related building development plans, drafting and negotiating of urban development contracts (in particular execution contracts) for the purpose of developing a building area or realising large-scale investment projects (retail, commerce, industry, residential and home building)
- Advice on building permit processes and notification procedures
- Execution of and advice on plan approval procedures including participation of the public
- Advice on immission control approval procedures for the purpose of establishing or expanding businesses (industry and commerce, energy facilities, sports facilities, leisure facilities)
- Protection of historical monuments
- Advice on development contributions and municipal levies
- Advice on immission control (in particular noise, odour) in the context of immission control permits, approaching construction or subsequent requirements (in particular defence against production-restricting regulations)
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental liability of companies
- Contaminated sites and soil protection
- Sewage disposal, indirect discharge of commercial and industrial wastewater, advice on and support in licensing procedures of sewage treatment plants, levying of fees and charges
- Waste disposal, draft and negotiation of disposal agreements of commercial and industrial waste including power station residues; advice on and support in licensing procedures
- Waste shipment – requirements under public law and contract law
- Chemicals legislation
- Advice on regional planning, land use and development planning
- Advising project developers as well as municipalities and adjoining residents on the execution of planning approval and licensing procedures [planning, construction and operation of airports, rail networks, (long-distance) road construction].
- Replacement and compensatory measures (nature and landscape), protection requirements
- Advice on the conduct of expropriation procedures
- Advice on the raising of objections, the holding of the discussion hearing and the conduct of litigation proceedings
- Support for tenders for railway tracks and networks
- Award and construction of roads including preparation of PPP and financing models in the road traffic
- Formal privatization of state and municipal companies including due diligence
- Sale of municipal shareholdings
- Conception and structuring of models for the inclusion of private individuals in the fulfilment of public tasks, e.g. in the field of recycling management law, water law or transport infrastructure
- Foundation of mixed-economy enterprises of different legal forms
- Legal support in bidding procedures for the privatisation of public utilities and waste disposal companies as well as the award of service and construction contracts including concessions
- Advice on municipal law in all 16 federal states
- Municipal Tax Law and Development Contribution Law
- Structuring and implementation of national and EU-wide procurement procedures
- Support of public clients and bidders in tenders for construction projects and services as well as concessions (according to GWB, VgV, VOB/A as well as budget law)
- Support for public contracting authorities and bidders in awarding contracts in the sectors of energy (gas, heat, electricity), water and transport services (according to SektVO)
- Advice on the draft of models without procurement (for example inhouse-procurement, horizontal cooperation of public entities, amendment of existing contracts) and in competitive tendering procedures (as architectural competitions) outside procurement law
- Development of PPP and financing models for road traffic and municipal buildings (e.g. day-care centres, schools, fire stations, courts, swimming pools, multi-purpose halls), assistance in investor selection procedures
- Representation of awarding authorities and bidders in procurement review procedures
- Support with grant applications
- Advice on compliance with relevant regulations and requirements for investment grants
- Defence against reclaims for subsidies
- Legal protection in connection with competition lawsuits (enforcement of and defence against corresponding claims)
- European environmental and technology law
- European subsidy law
- Application of EU regulations and effects of EU directives in national law
- Advice to public authorities and investors on transnational projects
- Advice on international treaties (e.g. double taxation agreements, ECHR, WTO agreements, UN Charter, Geneva Convention)
- Seminars & training
- We offer seminars and in-house training courses on all of the aforementioned topics for both public clients and companies.
- White Collar Crime & Tax Criminal Law
- Commercial criminal law
- Preventive advice
- Legal assistance in search and seizure proceedings
- Defence in criminal (investigation) proceedings and administrative offence proceedings
- Tax criminal law
- Preventive advice
- Advice and representation in proceedings for voluntary reporting under criminal tax law
- Legal assistance in search and seizure proceedings
- Defence in criminal (investigation) proceedings and administrative offence proceedings
- Compliance
- Draft of compliance systems
- Creation of compliance rules
- (In-house-) compliance trainings and seminars
- Review of existing compliance systems
- Internal investigations for current reasons or to uncover weaknesses in the company organisation and the compliance system
- Compliance Due Diligence Audit for M&A
- Advice and representation in compliance infringements
- Enforcement of recourse claims
- Litigation
- Defence at all German courts in all instances
- Enforcement of recourse claims by companies against employees in the event of compliance violations
- Energy
- Energy plant construction
- Planning, allocation and construction of networks
- Goal-oriented execution of land use planning procedures and approval procedures
- Allocation of planning and construction orders
- Advice during a construction project
- Legal advice around subsidies
- Infrastructural measures
- Goal-oriented execution of land use planning procedures and approval procedures
- Allocation of planning and construction orders
- Advice during a construction project
- Legal advice around subsidies
- Networks
- Counseling with regard to scenarios and network development plans
- Goal-oriented execution of land use planning procedures and approval procedures
- Network access, network charge
- Energy contracting
- Draft and negotiation of contracting agreements for process heat and electricity
- Construction and operation of generating plants
- Easements and heritage building rights
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Grid connection, electricity feed and financial support
- Energy saving contracting for industry and municipalities
- Licenses
- Granting of energy licenses
- Drafting and negotiating of simple and qualified easement agreements pursuant to the law on the energy industry
- Advising of energy supply companies and municipalities
- Energy contract law
- Drafting and negotiating of gas and electricity supply contracts for industry and trade
- Drafting and negotiating of supply contracts referring to process heat and district heating supply
- Fuel supply contracts, disposal of power plant residues
- Drafting and negotiating of fuel supply contracts including price adjustment clauses, fuel specifications and sampling provisions
- Drafting and negotiating of disposal contracts for power plant residues
- Advice on the Closed Cycle Waste Management Act and Landfill Ordinance
- Renewable energies
- Goal-oriented implementation of planning and approval procedures
- Assigning planning and construction contracts
- Grid connection, electricity feed, direct marketing and financial support according to the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG)
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Due diligence
- Acquisition, sale and restructuring of supply companies
- Drafting and negotiating of share purchase agreements
- Operational transfer in accordance with § 613a BGB (German Civil Code)
- Antitrust advice
- Investment consulting, participation in energy plants (parks) and grids
- Litigation, arbitration and representation before authorities
- Advising and support in planning approval procedures and licensing procedures including public involvement (participation in discussion meetings)
- Counseling regarding objections against planned projects, opposition and claim against licenses and licensing conditions
- Acting for citizens’ initiatives
- Conducting legal action before administrative courts and the ordinary courts including interlocutory relief
- Handling of arbitration proceedings as arbitrator or counsel
- Gaming & Betting Law Practice Group
- Gaming & betting
- Advice on regulation of land-based casinos
- Advice on gaming hall / AWP regulations
- Advice on regulation of betting shops
- Advice on online casino and sports betting
- Advice on the legal framework for fantasy betting
- Advice on regulation of horse betting
- Advice on legal framework for social gaming
- Advice on regulation of lotteries and bingo
- Advice on gambling-related payment solutions
- Strategic advice regarding future trends
- Licensing & compliance
- Casino licensing procedures
- Arcade and gaming hall concessions
- Advice on betting shop concessions
- Sports betting licensing process
- Brokering licences for online lotteries
- AML compliance
- Legal support in day-to-day operations (e.g. regarding customer support)
- Accreditation of age verification tools with German authorities
- Accreditation of test labs with gambling regulators
- Lobbying
- Lobby work with gambling regulators
- Foundation of trade groups
- Representation of gambling companies in trade groups
- Lobby work with European Commission
- Lobby work with tax authorities
- Litigation
- Administrative procedure
- Interstate Treaty restrictions & interdictions
- Interlocutory relief
- Legal defence against player claims
- Legal representation in German supreme courts & constitutional courts
- Commercial
- Establishment of local companies
- Due diligence for gambling-related M&A transactions
- Advertising and contracts
- Trademark issues and litigation
- Advice on competition law risks
- Terms & Conditions
- Tax advice
- Taxation of land-based casinos & gaming halls
- Sports betting tax
- Taxation of online casinos including VAT
- Lottery tax
- Tax registration and reporting
- Tax litigation
- Legal defence against prosecution of tax crimes
- Finance & capital market law
- Regulatory advice
- Representation in dealing with supervisory authorities
- Outsourcing of parts of the business
- Approval procedures for credit and financial service institutions
- Establishment of compliance systems and internal security procedures
- Alternative means ofpayment (for example bitcoins, payment cards)
- Stock & capital market
- Liability for inappropriate investment counseling
- Design and review of (security) prospectus
- Preparation and support of bond issues and initial public offerings
- Mezzanine financing
- Bank contract law
- Credit contracts and syndication
- Credit and payment securities
- Financing of acquisitions and collateralisation
- Sector-specific contract conditions
- Litigation & Arbitration
- Real estate
- Legal Due Diligence
- Land, condominium and part ownership, heritable building rights: creation and transactions
- Hedging instruments
- Condominium ownership
- From old to new, protection of historical monuments
- Facility management
- Energy saving contracting
- Project development
- Property purchase
- Advice on public tenders, PPP projects
- Development of building areas, advice on development and land use planning including project and development plans, preparation and negotiation of urban development contracts
- Advice on urban development and restructuring measures
- Advice on the project and award structure under private law and on contract models
- Drafting and review of project and construction contracts (architects, consortium, property developers, building contractors, BIM, energy saving contracting, general planners, general transferee, general contractors, GMP contracts, prefabricated housing sector, FIDIC, engineers, PPP models, project developers, project controllers, subcontractors)
- Preparation and execution of tenders under private law
- Support in contract negotiations
- Realisation
- Federal State Building Order (approval of construction projects/bringing the intended project to the knowledge of the building authority, neighborhood protection, pollution control, preservation statute and protection of historical monuments)
- Claim management and defence against amendments
- Warranty management
- Construction related and strategic support, mainly with regard to large-scale construction projects and plant construction (for example construction of power plants, industrial plants) as well as securing and asserting receivables
- Examination of supplements and justification
- Advice on receivables due to construction delays
- Support in a crises, for example in case of loss of construction parties
- Criminal construction law (anti-competitive agreements, illegal employment, construction hazards, environmental crimes, fraud and embezzlement in accounting)
- Preparation and supervision of the acceptance
- Audit of partial and final invoices
- Utilisation
- Drafting of commercial rental and leasing contracts
- Design of sale and rent-back/lease-back models
- Support in contract negotiations, termination and questions regarding current leasing
- Seminars & training courses
- Seminars and (inhouse) training courses in all mentioned fields of competence
- Conflict resolution
- Defence against claims
- Preservation of evidence
- Conflict avoidance through contract design
- Strategic advice in the event of conflict
- Remuneration, supplements and prosecution of material defects
- Objections of neighbouring parties and opposition proceedings
- Official conflict management, e.g. construction shutdown
- Judicial review proceedings, allocation complaint and review procedures
- Ordinary jurisdiction, arbitration, ombudsman proceedings and other conciliation procedures including arbitration agreements
- Interlocutory relief
- References
- Consultation of an energy infrastructural company acting across Europe with more than 12.000 employees and an annual business volume of approximately 2 billion Euros
- Extensive counseling of a Bundesliga soccer club in its implementation of a training center for young talents including its financing by a fan bond
- Support of a paper manufacturer with the tender, contractual negotiation (with international dimension) and the installation of paper machine with heating and power station. Total investment volume: approx. 600 million Euros
- Legal assistance of the architects ordered with the planning of the construction project “Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein”, construction volume approx. 520 million Euros
- Legal advice of the Entwicklungsgesellschaft Heidelberg with regard to the development of the new part of town called “Bahnstadt” in Heidelberg. The total investment volume amounts to more than 2 billion Euros
- IT & data protection
- IT & E-Commerce
- Draft of contracts concerning development, distribution, licensing and maintenance of software and hardware
- IT projects
- Outsourcing/shared services
- Set-up and design of e-commerce platforms
- Data protection
- Data protection
- Data protection compliance within the company’s organisation
- Data protection concerning marketing and distribution
- Data protection concerning labour law (private use of operational means, internal investigations, shared-services)
- Cloud computing
- Advice and representation in case of infringements of data protection
- Litigation & arbitration
- Handling of failed IT projects
- Insurances
- Insurance supervisory
- Insurance supervisory law (inter alia new foundation, entry into the German market, development of new business areas, measures of the supervisory authorities)
- Insurance intermediary law (inter alia license proceedings and registration of insurance intermediaries)
- Insurance products & insurance distribution
- Insurance policy law (inter alia design of group insurance contracts and general terms and conditions)
- Insurance distribution law (inter alia establishment of distribution structures, online-distribution, affiliate marketing)
- Delicate Claims Management
- Anti-money laundering
- Intellectual property / media / advertising & PR
- Trademarks & patents
- Draft of property right strategies
- Application and control of trademarks and other property rights
- Delimitation and prior rights agreements
- Enforcement of trademarks and industrial property rights
- Defence of trademark and patent infringements
- Launch of new products
- National and international technology transfer
- Purchase and sale of property rights
- Trademark license agreements and other property right licenses
- Patent agreements and know-how license agreements
- Copyright & design law
- Copyright agreements, publishing contracts
- Draft of agreements regarding multimedia analysis
- Artists‘ contracts and producers‘ contracts
- Concert and show contracts
- Advertising music contracts
- Design contracts and utility model licenses
- Enforcement of copyrights
- Defence against copyright infringements and product imitations
- Launch of new products
- Competition law
- Competition law
- Preparation of advertising and merchandising measures
- Preparation of advertising and merchandising measures
- Preparation of advertising and merchandising measures
- Representation in disputes regarding competition law
- Representation in disputes regarding competition law
- Interim injunctions in order to enforce competitive legal positions
- Caveat against unauthorized use by competitors
- Protection against counterfeiting and misappropriation
- Protection against misleading and comparing advertising
- Antitrust law
- Antitrust law
- Purchase cooperations, distribution cooperations
- Distribution antitrust law
- Conception of selective distribution systems
- Control of online distribution, price competition on the internet
- Research and development cooperations
- Cartels of medium-size enterprises and other cooperations
- Drafting contracts under antitrust law aspects
- Drafting contracts under antitrust law aspects
- Draft of contracts considering antitrust law
- Defence against the exploitation of market power, delivery blocks
- Notification of mergers
- Registration of mergers
- Notification of mergers/merger control proceedings
- Representation before the Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission
- Press & Media
- Coordination and negotiations with media representatives
- „Strategic press law“ – preparation to the media crises and strategic support after publication
- Press releases and interviews with press, radio and TV journalists
- Enforcement of injunctive relieves due to insult, defamation
- Counterstatements, revocations/corrections, damages
- Advertising & public relations
- Individual advertising for customers and future customers
- Examination of advertising measures, compliance
- Advertising agencies
- Agreements with advertising parties
- Sponsoring agreements
- Litigation
- Litigation
- Infringement trials
- Summary proceedings, interim injunctions
- Opposition proceedings
- Annulment proceedings
- Conflict resolution
- Strategic consulting & conflict strategies
- Analysis of facts and legal situation in case of a potential conflict
- Assessment of process, liability and cost risks
- Creation of a negotiation position and of solution proposals
- Advice, support and representation in negotiations with the opposing party
- Prior to a conflict: Drafting of jurisdiction and choice of law clauses as well as of arbitration agreements
- Litigation & arbitration
- Litigation & arbitration
- Litigation & arbitration
- Litigation in state courts (except before the Federal Court of Justice in civil matters)
- Evidence securing procedures
- Arbitration proceedings before institutional or ad hoc arbitral courts
- Interlocutory relief & legal enforcement
- Interim injunction
- Interim order
- Arrest
- Default action
- Compulsory execution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution - ADR
- Mediation
- Arbitrator's report, activity as arbitrator
- Conciliation proceedings
- Representation before authorities & preliminary procedures
- Administrative procedures
- Opposition proceedings
- Public participation procedure
- Review procedures
- Administrative offense proceedings and administrative fine proceedings
- Criminal proceedings
- Cross-border legal disputes
- Advice and representation of foreign clients in Germany
- Support in proceedings before foreign courts
- Providing contacts of specialized law firms abroad
- Acknowledgment proceedings and enforcement of foreign judgments in Germany
- Notary’s office in Berlin
- Real estate law
- Purchase & sale of land, home and partial ownerships, lease holds
- Registration of mortgages
- Plot division
- Creation of lease holds
- Family and inheritance law
- Marriage contracts and „consequences of divorce agreements“
- Last wills and inheritance contracts
- Applications of certificates of inheritance & refusals of inheritance
- Estate inventory
- Adoptions
- Business and corporate law
- Foundation of partnerships and corporations
- Conversion, mergers & liquidation
- Registrations in the commercial register
- Preparation of the lists to be presented by the commercial register
- General civil law
- Powers of attorney
- Promissory letters
- Certificates
- Affidavits
- Notarisations & authentication
- Raffles & draws
- Private Clients
- Succession planning & donation
- Succession counselling and planning, support in family internal communication
- Succession counselling and planning, support in family internal communication
- Anticipated inheritance, draft of donation agreements
- Draft of testamentary dispositions (wills, inheritance contracts)
- Draft of testamentary dispositions (wills, inheritance contracts)
- Agreements on waiver of compulsory share
- Establishment of foundations, donations
- Establishment of foundations, donations
- Clarification and draft of succession issues under private international law
- Clarification and draft of succession issues under international private law
- Inheritance distribution and execution of a will
- Inheritance proceedings
- Precautionary documents
- Precautionary power
- Care directive
- Patient directive
- Marriage agreements
- Marriage agreement
- Cohabitation agreement
- Partnership agreement
- White Collar Crime & Tax Criminal Law
- Commercial criminal law
- Preventive advice
- Preventive advice
- Legal assistance in search and seizure proceedings
- Legal assistance in search and seizure proceedings
- Defence in criminal (investigation) proceedings and administrative offence proceedings
- Defence in criminal (investigation) proceedings and administrative offence proceedings
- Tax criminal law
- Advice and representation in proceedings for voluntary reporting under criminal tax law
- Compliance
- Draft of compliance systems
- Creation of compliance rules
- (In-house-) compliance trainings and seminars
- Review of existing compliance systems
- Internal investigations for current reasons or to uncover weaknesses in the company organisation and the compliance system
- Compliance Due Diligence Audit for M&A
- Advice and representation in case of compliance infringements
- Advice and representation in compliance infringements
- Enforcement of recourse claims
- Defence at all German courts in all instances
- Enforcement of recourse claims by companies against employees in the event of compliance violations
- Distribution & (international) trade
- Distribution & franchise systems
- Law of commercial agencies
- Authorised dealer law
- Law of authorized dealers
- Franchise agreements
- Affiliate marketing
- Draft of other distribution structures
- E-Commerce
- E-Commerce
- Webshops
- Social Media
- Representation before the Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission
- Foreign trade legislation, export control & embargos
- Establishing and audits of compliance systems
- Advice on German and European provisions regarding export control and embargos
- Support in licensing proceedings (German Federal Office of Economics and Export Control)
- US-(re) export law
- Draft and negotiation of cross-border supply and service agreements
- General Terms and Conditions
- Draft, examination and implementation of General Terms and Conditions
- Economy & State - Public law
- Construction & planning
- Advice on the preparation and modification of land use and zoning plans
- Project-related building development plans, drafting and negotiating of urban development contracts (in particular execution contracts) for the purpose of developing a building area or realising large-scale investment projects (retail, commerce, industry, residential and home building)
- Advice on building permit processes and notification procedures
- Execution of and advice on plan approval procedures including participation of the public
- Advice on immission control approval procedures for the purpose of establishing or expanding businesses (industry and commerce, energy facilities, sports facilities, leisure facilities)
- Protection of historical monuments
- Advice on development contributions and municipal levies
- Environment & waste management
- Advice on immission control (in particular noise, odour) in the context of immission control permits, approaching construction or subsequent requirements (in particular defence against production-restricting regulations)
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental liability of companies
- Contaminated sites and soil protection
- Sewage disposal, indirect discharge of commercial and industrial wastewater, advice on and support in licensing procedures of sewage treatment plants, levying of fees and charges
- Waste disposal, draft and negotiation of disposal agreements of commercial and industrial waste including power station residues; advice on and support in licensing procedures
- Waste shipment – requirements under public law and contract law
- Chemicals legislation
- Infrastructure: air, rail & road
- Advice on regional planning, land use and development planning
- Advising project developers as well as municipalities and adjoining residents on the execution of planning approval and licensing procedures [planning, construction and operation of airports, rail networks, (long-distance) road construction].
- Replacement and compensatory measures (nature and landscape), protection requirements
- Advice on the conduct of expropriation procedures
- Advice on the raising of objections, the holding of the discussion hearing and the conduct of litigation proceedings
- Support for tenders for railway tracks and networks
- Award and construction of roads including preparation of PPP and financing models in the road traffic
- Public enterprises & municipalities
- Formal privatization of state and municipal companies including due diligence
- Sale of municipal shareholdings
- Conception and structuring of models for the inclusion of private individuals in the fulfilment of public tasks, e.g. in the field of recycling management law, water law or transport infrastructure
- Foundation of mixed-economy enterprises of different legal forms
- Legal support in bidding procedures for the privatisation of public utilities and waste disposal companies as well as the award of service and construction contracts including concessions
- Advice on municipal law in all 16 federal states
- Municipal Tax Law and Development Contribution Law
- Procurement & Public Private Partnership
- Structuring and implementation of national and EU-wide procurement procedures
- Support of public clients and bidders in tenders for construction projects and services as well as concessions (according to GWB, VgV, VOB/A as well as budget law)
- Support for public contracting authorities and bidders in awarding contracts in the sectors of energy (gas, heat, electricity), water and transport services (according to SektVO)
- Advice on the draft of models without procurement (for example inhouse-procurement, horizontal cooperation of public entities, amendment of existing contracts) and in competitive tendering procedures (as architectural competitions) outside procurement law
- Development of PPP and financing models for road traffic and municipal buildings (e.g. day-care centres, schools, fire stations, courts, swimming pools, multi-purpose halls), assistance in investor selection procedures
- Representation of awarding authorities and bidders in procurement review procedures
- Grants & subsidies
- Support with grant applications
- Advice on compliance with relevant regulations and requirements for investment grants
- Defence against reclaims for subsidies
- Legal protection in connection with competition lawsuits (enforcement of and defence against corresponding claims)
- European law & international law
- European environmental and technology law
- European subsidy law
- Application of EU regulations and effects of EU directives in national law
- Advice to public authorities and investors on transnational projects
- Advice on international treaties (e.g. double taxation agreements, ECHR, WTO agreements, UN Charter, Geneva Convention)
- Legislative procedures
- Advice on and support in coping with legislative bodies and political organisations, observation and analysis of political developments during the legislative process
- Drafting of argumentation lines and statements in the context of participation in the political decision-making process
- Draft of initiative presentations within the lobbying work of industries and associations
- Litigation & representation before authorities
- Representation before local, state and federal authorities as well as before arbitral courts, German and European courts
- Seminars & training
- We offer seminars and in-house training courses on all of the aforementioned topics for both public clients and companies.
- Recruiting, drafting of employment contracts, current employment
- Labour law / HR
- Legal aspects of personnel recruitment, selection and hiring of personnel
- Employment contracts and connected agreements
- Fixed-term employment law (fixed-term employment with or without a material reason, fixed-term employment beyond retirement age)
- Variable payment (target agreements, royalties, commissions, bonuses, long- and short-term incentives, employee participation)
- Variable working hours (flexible work time, capacity-oriented work time, trust-based working hours, working hours accounts)
- Part-time work inside and outside parental leave, care and family leave, sabbaticals
- Corporate integration management
- Written warnings
- Notice of terminations, cancellation and winding-up agreements
- References
- Employment of temporary workers
- Work contracts, service contracts, avoidance of bogus self-employment
- Supply of temporary workers
- Management contracts
- Transactions, restructuring & reorganisation
- Due diligence concerning labour law
- Negotiation and draft of transfer of or change in operations
- Draft of new operational structures
- Adjustment and draft of working conditions and payment structures
- Staff reduction measures (reconciliation of interests, social plans, collective redundancies, actions for dismissal protection)
- Works council, economic committee, personnel council, employee representation, representation of severely disabled persons
- Advice of enterprises without a works council (employee communication without works council, alternative employee representation, advice on questions regarding the initiation or avoidance of the establishment of a works council)
- Establishment of a works council, works council elections, appeal against works council elections
- Constructive cooperation with the works council (communication with the works council, right to information of the works council, monthly meetings, works council meetings, works council training, cost for works council training etc.)
- Limits to constructive cooperation: exclusion of individual works council members or dissolution of the works council due to gross breaches of duty; termination of works council members
- Advice and support in all questions of co-determination of the works council under works constitution law (e.g. recruitment, transfer, dismissal, working time models, overtime, remuneration, data processing, employee monitoring, social media etc.)
- Negotiation and drafting of works agreements and ( in-house ) collective agreements
- Negotiation of reconciliations of interest and social plans in case of restructuring and lay-offs
- Representation and support of the employer in conciliation bodies
- Representation and support of the employer in other disputes with the works council outside and in court
- Advising the employer on how to deal with the representative body for severely handicapped persons
- Matters regarding board and managing directors
- Draft of service agreements for management and board members as well as for executives, draft of rules of procedure for board members and management
- Negotiation and draft of separation agreements
- Termination of the employment contract and litigation in the termination and compensation process
- Drafting agreements on non-compete and post-contractual non-compete clauses; representation in litigation, in particular interim injunctions for omission of competition
- Directors & Officers Liability and D&O insurance
- Company pension
- Deferred compensation
- Restructuring of existing and introduction of new pension models (choice of the pension model: direct pension, direct insurance, support fund, pension funds, etc.)
- Adjustment or denial of the adjustment of company pensions pursuant to § 16 BetrAVG
- Social security
- Employment of temporary workers, assignment of workers, freelance contributor models and avoidance of bogus self-employment and bogus work agreement
- Managers subject to social security
- International social insurance for secondments or parallel activities in several host countries
- Representation in all individual and collective disputes before the labor courts (labor court, regional labor court, federal labor court) and, in particular in disputes between managing directors and board members and the company, the ordinary courts (regional court, higher regional court, representation before the Federal Supreme Court)
- Support and representation of the employer in the conciliation committee
- International labour law
- Design of cross-border employee assignments (labour, social security and residence permit law, inbound and outbound)
- Advice of German subsidiaries of international companies
- Advice of German clients with regard to foreign subsidiaries
- Cross-border restructuring
- Enterprises / Corporate & Commercial
- General company law
- Conception and establishment of companies
- Articles of association and shareholder agreements
- Amendments to the articles of association, capital measures
- Design of the organisational structure and advice on corporate governance issues
- Internal company disputes
- Preparation and support of shareholders' meetings and annual general meetings, resolution deficiency proceedings
- Liquidation of companies
- Advice for start-ups
- Corporate housekeeping
- Restructuring & reorganisation
- Change of legal form
- Mergers
- Demergers, in particular spin-offs and split-offs of parts of companies
- Creation of holding structures
- Intercompany agreements and other group legal relationships
- Restructuring & insolvency
- Advice close to insolvency
- Design and support of redevelopment concepts
- Preparation and support of insolvency plan procedures
- Counseling of creditors, management and shareholders
- Insolvency administration
- Company succession
- Adaptation of articles of association to the needs of succession planning
- Restructuring of companies and group of companies with regard to succession planning
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Conception and prospectus of investment funds
- Venture capital and private equity financings
- Advice in connection with IPOs
- Support of company acquisitions on the buyer and seller side, including due diligence reviews and post-M&A disputes
- Corporate governance & compliance
- Compliance guidelines and operational instructions
- Compliance management systems
- Design of the internal corporate structures
- Allocation of responsibilities
- Rules of procedure
- Representation of companies and managers in matters of managing directors' and board members' liability
- (International) trade
- General terms and conditions
- Non-disclosure agreements
- Commercial purchase
- Law of commercial agents
- Freight and forwarding law
- International commercial law
- Distribution law
- Foreign trade legislation, export control & embargos
- Distribution antitrust law
- Representation in dealing with the Federal antitrust authorities and the European Commission
- Application for exemption from the non-compete obligation
- Application for exemption from the non-compete obligation
- Airlines & aviation
- Claims management
- Cargo transport
- Advice regarding IT and e-commerce
- Advice regarding relationships to Ground Handling Partners (airport operators as for example Fraport AG, Airport Service Companies etc.) and IATA contract system
- Labour law
- Right of residence
- Trainings
- Design of General Conditions of Carriage and General Queries on Flight Handling
- Enforcement/defence of claims against third parties
- Data protection law
- Employee data protection
- Draft and implementation of technical and organisational measures pursuant to the Federal Data Protection Act
- Company organisation in compliance with data protection law, outsourcing
- Development of (also cross-bordered, integrated) CRM data bases
- Direct marketing campaigns, co-marketing, co-branding, social media
- Generation and use of qualified leads/data of interested parties
- Commercial tenancy law
- Drafting of commercial rental and leasing contracts
- Design of sale and rent-back/lease-back models
- Support and accompaniment of contract negotiations, termination and questions of ongoing leases
- Litigation, arbitration & ADR
- Representation before all local, regional and higher regional courts in civil proceedings
- Arbitration proceedings
- Alternative dispute resolution proceedings, for example mediation
- Competence
- Distribution cartel law
- Proceedings before public procurement courts
