Heidelberg
- Building law & real estate
- Real estate
- Project planning
- Realization
- 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
- Assistance in tendering procedures, PPP-projects
- Property purchase
- 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 defense of supplement claims
- Warranty management
- Defense of claims
- Preservation of evidence
- Interim legal protection
- Seminars and (inhouse) training courses in all mentioned fields of competence
- Project planning
- Building law & real estate
- Conflict solutions
- 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 and public international law
- Legislative procedures
- Litigation & representation before authorities
- Represenation before municipal, regional and federal authorities as well as before arbitration courts, German and European courts
- Advice on and support in coping with legislative bodies and political organizations, observation and analysis of political developments during the legislative process
- Draft of lines of argumentation and statements in case 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
- Regulatorylaw
- 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 & capitalmarket
- Liability for inappropriate investment counseling
- Design and review of (security) prospectus
- Preparation and support of bond issues and initial public offerings
- Mezzanine financing
- Bank contractlaw
- 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 land, advice on development planning and land use including project and site development, draft and negotiation of urban development contracts
- Advice on urban development and restructuring measures
- Advice on project and allocation structure under private law and the contract models
- Draft and review of project and construction contracts (architects, co
- Preparation and execution of tendering procedures
- Support in contract negotiations
- Construction related and strategic support, mainly with regard to large building projects and plant construction (for example construction of power plants, industrial plants) and security and collection of receivables
- Examination of supplements and justification
- Advice on claims resulting from the construction time
- Support in a crises, for example in case of loss of construction parties
- Criminal construction law (anticompetitive agreements, illegal employment, constructional hazard, environmental offense, acts of fraud and unfaithfulness in accounting)
- Preparation and supervision of the acceptance
- Examination of installments and final invoices
- Utilization
- Design of commercial tenancy and leasing agreements
- Design of sale and lease-back/lease-back agreements
- Support in contract negotiations, termination and questions regarding current leasing
- Avoidance of conflicts by contractual draft
- Strategic support in conflicts
- Remuneration, supplements and prosecution of material defects
- Objections of neighbors and opposition proceedings
- Official conflict management, for example construction interruption
- 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
- Targeted 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
- Targeted 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
- Targeted 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 generator facilities
- Easements and heritage building rights
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Network connection, power input and financial support
- Energy saving contracting for industry and communes
- 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 communes
- 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 of power plant residues
- Advice regarding the law on life-cycle management and disposal ordinance
- Renewable energies
- Targeted execution of planning approval procedures and licensing procedures
- Placing of planning and construction contracts
- Network connection, power input, direct marketing and financial support pursuant to the renewable energy act
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Acquisition and sale and restructuring of supply companies
- Due diligence
- Drafting and negotiating of share purchase agreements
- Transfer of undertakings pursuant to § 613a German Civil Code
- Antitrust advice
- Investment advice, shares in power plants (parks) and networks
- 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 interim legal protection
- 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
- Interim legal protection
- 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 oft rademarks and property rights
- Defense 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 and design patent law
- Copyright agreements, publishing contracts
- Draft of agreements regarding multimedia analysis
- Artists‘ contracts and producers‘ contracts
- Concert and show contractrs
- Advertising music contracts
- Design contracts and utility model licenses
- Enforcement of copyrights
- Defense of copyright infringements and product counterfeiting
- 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
- Defense of exploitation of market power, delivery stop
- 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
- Expedited 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 organization
- Data protection concerning marketing and distribution
- Data protection concerning labor 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: assessment of place of jurisdiction and choice of law as well as draft 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 before institutional arbitration courts or arbitration courts established ad hoc
- Interim legal protection & legal enforcement
- Interim injunction
- Interim order
- Arrest
- Default action
- Compulsory execution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution - ADR
- Mediation
- Arbitration opinion
- Conciliation proceedings
- Representation before authorities & preliminary procedures
- Administrative procedures
- Opposition proceedings
- Proceedings of the public participation
- Protective brief
- 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 procedures and execution of foreign decisions 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
- Notarizations & authentication
- Raffles & draws
- Labor and employment
- Recruiting, drafting of employment contracts, current employment
- Legal aspects of staff acquisition, selection of personnel and employment of personnel
- Employment contracts and connected agreements
- Limited-term contracts (limitation with and without reason, limited employment beyond the pension 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 during and outside parental leave, care period and family period, sabbaticals
- Corporate integration management
- Written warnings
- Notice of terminations, cancellation and winding-up agreements
- Certificates
- Employment of temporary workers
- Work contracts, service contracts, avoidance of bogus self-employment
- Supply of temporary workers
- Management contracts
- Transactions, restructuring & reorganization
- Due diligence concerning labor law
- Negotiation and draft of transfers or amendments of enterprises
- Draft of new business structures
- Adjustment and draft of working conditions and payment structures
- Lay-offs (reconciliation of interest, social plans, mass dismissals, dismissal protection suits)
- 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 formation of a works council)
- Formation 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 of the constructive cooperation: exclusion of individual works council members or dissolution of the works council for gross breach of duties; termination of members of the works council
- Advice a
- Negotiation and draft of company agreements and (internal) 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 committees
- Representation and support of the employer in other disputes with the works council outside and in court
- Advice of the employer regarding the handling of the representation of severely disabled 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 service contract and conduct of trials regarding termination and compensation
- Draft of agreements regarding prohibition of competition and post-contractual restraint; support in procedures particularly within injunctions referring to prohibition of competition
- Organ liability, 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 security in case of posting or parallel work in several individual countries
- Litigation & arbitration
- Representation in all individual and collective disputes in labor courts (labor
- Support and representation of the employer in the conciliation committee
- International labor law
- Draft of cross-border staff assignment (labor law, social security law and law of residence permits, 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 consulting and planning, support with communication within family members
- Anticipated inheritance, draft of donation agreements
- Draft of testamentary dispositions (wills, inheritance contracts)
- Agreements on waiver of compulsory share
- Establishment of foundations, sub-foundations
- 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 draft of companies
- Company agreements and shareholders agreements
- Amendment of the articles of association, capital measures
- Draft of the organization structure and advice in corporate governance
- Organization of and support in shareholders’ meetings and general meetings, procedures because of deficiencies in resolutions
- Disputes within the company
- Liquidation of companies
- Advising of start-up companies
- Corporate housekeeping
- Restructuring & reorganization
- Change of legal form
- Mergers
- Divisions, particularly spin-off of parts of a company
- Creation of holding structures
- Corporate agreements and other legal relationships in groups
- Restructuring & insolvency
- Counseling how to manage insolvencies
- Creation of and support in restructuring concepts
- Preparation and support of insolvency plan procedures
- Counseling of creditors, managements and shareholders
- Insolvency administration
- Company succession
- Advice on and planning of succession, support on family intern communication
- Draft of testamentary dispositions (wills, inheritance contracts)
- Adjustment of company agreements with regard to succession planning
- Restructuring of companies and group of companies with regard to succession planning
- Establishment of foundations, sub-foundations
- Clarification and draft of succession issues under private international law
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Support of purchasers and sellers to the acquisition of companies including due diligence and disputes following mergers & acquisitions
- Venture capital and private equity financings
- Draft and preparation of the prospectus of investment funds
- Counseling in connection with public offering
- Corporate governance & compliance
- Organization of internal company structures
- Allocation of business
- Business organization
- Representation of companies and managers concerning management and board member liability
- Compliance management systems
- Compliance guidelines and operational instructions
- Advice and representation in case of compliance infringements
- (International) commerce
- General terms and conditions
- Confidentiality agreements
- Commercial transaction
- Sales 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 cartel law
- Application for exemption from prohibition of competition
- Drafting of contracts under antitrust aspects
- Application of mergers/merger control proceedings
- Representation in dealing with the Federal antitrust authorities and the European Commission
- Airlines & aviation
- Claims management
- Cargo transport
- Draft of General transport conditions and general inquiries regarding 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/defense of claims against third parties
- Labor law
- Residence law
- Trainings
- Data protection law
- Employee data protection
- Draft and implementation of technical and organizational measures pursuant to the Federal Data Protection Act
- Company organization 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
- Draft of commercial tenancy and leasing agreements
- Draft of sale and rent-back/lease-back agreements
- Support in contract negotiations, termination and questions regarding current leasing
- Litigation, arbitration and ADR
- Representation in all local, district and higher regional courts in civil procedures
- 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 and franchise systems
- Law of commercial agencies
- Concessionary 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 prohibition of competition
- Draft of agreements regarding antitrust aspects
- Notification of mergers
- Representation to 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 or amendment of zoning plans
- Project
- Advice on building permit processes and notification procedures
- Execution of and advice on plan approval procedures including participation of the public
- Advice on pollution protection permission procedures with regard to the location or extension of operations (industry and commerce, energy plants, sport facilities, leisure parks)
- Monument conservation
- Advice on development contributions and local rates
- Advice on pollution protection (particularly sound, smell) within pollution protection permissions, approaching constructions or subsequent conditions (particularly defense of orders restricting the production)
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental liability of companies
- Polluted areas and soil conservation
- Sewage disposal, indirect discharge of commercial and industrial wastewater, advice on and support in licensing procedures of sewage treatment plants, demand of fees
- 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 movement – requirements under public law and contract law
- Chemicals law
- Advice on regional development planning, zoning plans
- Advice on developers and communities and adjoining owners referring to the execution of planning approval procedures and licensing procedures (planning, construction and operation of airports, rail network, road construction, construction of motorways)
- Replacement and compensation measures (nature and landscape), protection requirements
- Advice on the execution of expropriation procedures
- Advice on the raising objections, execution of discussion hearings and the conduct of law suits
- Support in tenders for tracks and networks in rail traffic
- 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 city-owned participations
- Conception and structuring of models for the inclusion of privates into the public fulfillment of tasks, for example in the circular economy law, water right or traffic infrastructure
- Foundation of mixed-economy enterprises of different legal forms
- Legal support from tendering procedures to the privatization of public utilities and waste management companies as well as the award of service and construction orders including concession
- Advice on municipal law of all 16 Laender
- Local rate law and law on fees for development
- Structuring and execution of national and European procurement procedures
- Support of public employers and bidders in tenders for construction projects and services as well as concessions (pursuant to GWB, VgV, VOB/A and budget law)
- Support of public employers and bidders with regard to awards in the sectors energy (gas, heat, electricity), water and transportation services (pursuant to SektVO)
- Advice on the draft of models without procurement (for example inhouse-procurement, horizontal cooperation of public employers, amendment of existing contracts) and in competitive tendering procedures (as architectural competitions) outside procurement law
- Preparation of PPP and financing models in traffic and for municipal buildings (as for example day cares, schools, fire stations, courts, swimming pools, multipurpose halls), support in investor selection processes
- Representation of employers and bidders in review of procurement procedures
- Support in the preparation of applications for subsidies
- Advice on the compliance of terms and requirements with regard to investment grants
- Conseil en dispositions pertinentes et obligations au cas de subventions à l’investissement
- Legal protection in connection with suits of competitors (implementation and defense of respective claims)
- European environmental and technology law
- European subsidy law
- Application of EU regulations and effects of EU regulations on the national law
- Counseling of state sector and investors in transnational projects
- Advice on contracts under public international law (as for example double taxation agreements, ECHR, WTO Agreement, UN Charta, Geneva Convention)
- Seminars & training
- We offer seminars and inhouse-training regarding all topics mentioned above for public employers as well as for companies
- Law of commercial and tax offenses
- Law regarding commercial offenses
- Preventive advice
- Attendance to searches and seizures
- Defense in criminal (investigation) proceedings and regulatory offense procedures
- Law regarding fiscal offenses
- Preventive advice
- Counseling and representation in cases of voluntary reports of incorrect tax returns filed with the authorities
- Attendance to searches and seizures
- Defense in criminal (investigation) proceedings and regulatory offense procedures
- Compliance
- Draft of compliance systems
- Creation of compliance rules
- (In-house-)compliance trainings and seminars
- Examination of existing compliance systems
- Internal examination in reaction to current events or to disclose weak points in the company’s organization and the compliance system
- Compliance due diligence in case of M&A
- Counseling and representation in compliance infringements
- Enforcement of claims of compensation
- Litigation
- Defense in all German courts and in all instances
- Enforcement of claims of compensation of companies against employees in case of compliance infringements
- Energy
- Energy plant construction
- Planning, allocation and construction of networks
- Targeted 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
- Targeted 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
- Targeted 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 generator facilities
- Easements and heritage building rights
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Network connection, power input and financial support
- Energy saving contracting for industry and communes
- 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 communes
- 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 of power plant residues
- Advice regarding the law on life-cycle management and disposal ordinance
- Renewable energies
- Targeted execution of planning approval procedures and licensing procedures
- Placing of planning and construction contracts
- Network connection, power input, direct marketing and financial support pursuant to the renewable energy act
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Due diligence
- Acquisition and sale and restructuring of supply companies
- Drafting and negotiating of share purchase agreements
- Transfer of undertakings pursuant to § 613a German Civil Code
- Antitrust advice
- Investment advice, shares in power plants (parks) and networks
- 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 interim legal protection
- 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
- Interim legal protection
- 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
- Regulatorylaw
- 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 & capitalmarket
- Liability for inappropriate investment counseling
- Design and review of (security) prospectus
- Preparation and support of bond issues and initial public offerings
- Mezzanine financing
- Bank contractlaw
- 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
- Assistance in tendering procedures, PPP-projects
- Property purchase
- Development of building land, advice on development planning and land use including project and site development, draft and negotiation of urban development contracts
- Advice on urban development and restructuring measures
- Advice on project and allocation structure under private law and the contract models
- Draft and review of project and construction contracts (architects, co
- Preparation and execution of tendering procedures
- Support in contract negotiations
- Realization
- 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 defense of supplement claims
- Warranty management
- Construction related and strategic support, mainly with regard to large building projects and plant construction (for example construction of power plants, industrial plants) and security and collection of receivables
- Examination of supplements and justification
- Advice on claims resulting from the construction time
- Support in a crises, for example in case of loss of construction parties
- Criminal construction law (anticompetitive agreements, illegal employment, constructional hazard, environmental offense, acts of fraud and unfaithfulness in accounting)
- Preparation and supervision of the acceptance
- Examination of installments and final invoices
- Utilization
- Design of commercial tenancy and leasing agreements
- Design of sale and lease-back/lease-back agreements
- 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
- Defense of claims
- Preservation of evidence
- Avoidance of conflicts by contractual draft
- Strategic support in conflicts
- Remuneration, supplements and prosecution of material defects
- Objections of neighbors and opposition proceedings
- Official conflict management, for example construction interruption
- Judicial review proceedings, allocation complaint and review procedures
- Ordinary jurisdiction, arbitration, ombudsman proceedings and other conciliation procedures including arbitration agreements
- Interim legal protection
- 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 organization
- Data protection concerning marketing and distribution
- Data protection concerning labor 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 oft rademarks and property rights
- Defense 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 and design patent law
- Copyright agreements, publishing contracts
- Draft of agreements regarding multimedia analysis
- Artists‘ contracts and producers‘ contracts
- Concert and show contractrs
- Advertising music contracts
- Design contracts and utility model licenses
- Enforcement of copyrights
- Defense of copyright infringements and product counterfeiting
- 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
- Draft of agreements regarding antitrust aspects
- Drafting of contracts under antitrust aspects
- Draft of contracts considering antitrust law
- Defense of exploitation of market power, delivery stop
- Notification of mergers
- Registration of mergers
- Application 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
- Expedited proceedings, interim injunctions
- Opposition proceedings
- Annulment proceedings
- Conflict solutions
- 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: assessment of place of jurisdiction and choice of law as well as draft 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 before institutional arbitration courts or arbitration courts established ad hoc
- Interim legal protection & legal enforcement
- Interim injunction
- Interim order
- Arrest
- Default action
- Compulsory execution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution - ADR
- Mediation
- Arbitration opinion
- Conciliation proceedings
- Representation before authorities & preliminary procedures
- Administrative procedures
- Opposition proceedings
- Proceedings of the public participation
- Protective brief
- 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 procedures and execution of foreign decisions 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
- Notarizations & authentication
- Raffles & draws
- Private Clients
- Succession planning & donation
- Succession consulting and planning, support with communication within family members
- Advice on and planning of succession, support on family intern 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, sub-foundations
- Establishment of foundations, sub-foundations
- Clarification and draft of succession issues under private international law
- 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
- Law of commercial and tax offenses
- Law regarding commercial offenses
- Preventive advice
- Preventive advice
- Attendance to searches and seizures
- Attendance to searches and seizures
- Defense in criminal (investigation) proceedings and regulatory offense procedures
- Defense in criminal (investigation) proceedings and regulatory offense procedures
- Law regarding fiscal offenses
- Counseling and representation in cases of voluntary reports of incorrect tax returns filed with the authorities
- Compliance
- Draft of compliance systems
- Creation of compliance rules
- (In-house-)compliance trainings and seminars
- Examination of existing compliance systems
- Internal examination in reaction to current events or to disclose weak points in the company’s organization and the compliance system
- Compliance due diligence in case of M&A
- Advice and representation in case of compliance infringements
- Counseling and representation in compliance infringements
- Enforcement of claims of compensation
- Defense in all German courts and in all instances
- Enforcement of claims of compensation of companies against employees in case of compliance infringements
- Distribution & (international) trade
- Distribution and franchise systems
- Law of commercial agencies
- Concessionary law
- Law of authorized dealers
- Franchise agreements
- Affiliate marketing
- Draft of other distribution structures
- E-Commerce
- E-Commerce
- Webshops
- Social Media
- Representation to 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 or amendment of zoning plans
- Project
- Advice on building permit processes and notification procedures
- Execution of and advice on plan approval procedures including participation of the public
- Advice on pollution protection permission procedures with regard to the location or extension of operations (industry and commerce, energy plants, sport facilities, leisure parks)
- Monument conservation
- Advice on development contributions and local rates
- Environment & waste management
- Advice on pollution protection (particularly sound, smell) within pollution protection permissions, approaching constructions or subsequent conditions (particularly defense of orders restricting the production)
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental liability of companies
- Polluted areas and soil conservation
- Sewage disposal, indirect discharge of commercial and industrial wastewater, advice on and support in licensing procedures of sewage treatment plants, demand of fees
- 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 movement – requirements under public law and contract law
- Chemicals law
- Infrastructure: air, rail & road
- Advice on regional development planning, zoning plans
- Advice on developers and communities and adjoining owners referring to the execution of planning approval procedures and licensing procedures (planning, construction and operation of airports, rail network, road construction, construction of motorways)
- Replacement and compensation measures (nature and landscape), protection requirements
- Advice on the execution of expropriation procedures
- Advice on the raising objections, execution of discussion hearings and the conduct of law suits
- Support in tenders for tracks and networks in rail traffic
- 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 city-owned participations
- Conception and structuring of models for the inclusion of privates into the public fulfillment of tasks, for example in the circular economy law, water right or traffic infrastructure
- Foundation of mixed-economy enterprises of different legal forms
- Legal support from tendering procedures to the privatization of public utilities and waste management companies as well as the award of service and construction orders including concession
- Advice on municipal law of all 16 Laender
- Local rate law and law on fees for development
- Procurement & Public Private Partnership
- Structuring and execution of national and European procurement procedures
- Support of public employers and bidders in tenders for construction projects and services as well as concessions (pursuant to GWB, VgV, VOB/A and budget law)
- Support of public employers and bidders with regard to awards in the sectors energy (gas, heat, electricity), water and transportation services (pursuant to SektVO)
- Advice on the draft of models without procurement (for example inhouse-procurement, horizontal cooperation of public employers, amendment of existing contracts) and in competitive tendering procedures (as architectural competitions) outside procurement law
- Preparation of PPP and financing models in traffic and for municipal buildings (as for example day cares, schools, fire stations, courts, swimming pools, multipurpose halls), support in investor selection processes
- Representation of employers and bidders in review of procurement procedures
- Grants & subsidies
- Support in the preparation of applications for subsidies
- Advice on the compliance of terms and requirements with regard to investment grants
- Conseil en dispositions pertinentes et obligations au cas de subventions à l’investissement
- Legal protection in connection with suits of competitors (implementation and defense of respective claims)
- European law and public international law
- European environmental and technology law
- European subsidy law
- Application of EU regulations and effects of EU regulations on the national law
- Counseling of state sector and investors in transnational projects
- Advice on contracts under public international law (as for example double taxation agreements, ECHR, WTO Agreement, UN Charta, Geneva Convention)
- Legislative procedures
- Advice on and support in coping with legislative bodies and political organizations, observation and analysis of political developments during the legislative process
- Draft of lines of argumentation and statements in case of participation in the political decision-making process
- Draft of initiative presentations within the lobbying work of industries and associations
- Litigation & representation before authorities
- Represenation before municipal, regional and federal authorities as well as before arbitration courts, German and European courts
- Seminars & training
- We offer seminars and inhouse-training regarding all topics mentioned above for public employers as well as for companies
- Recruiting, drafting of employment contracts, current employment
- Labor and employment
- Legal aspects of staff acquisition, selection of personnel and employment of personnel
- Employment contracts and connected agreements
- Limited-term contracts (limitation with and without reason, limited employment beyond the pension 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 during and outside parental leave, care period and family period, sabbaticals
- Corporate integration management
- Written warnings
- Notice of terminations, cancellation and winding-up agreements
- Certificates
- Employment of temporary workers
- Work contracts, service contracts, avoidance of bogus self-employment
- Supply of temporary workers
- Management contracts
- Transactions, restructuring & reorganization
- Due diligence concerning labor law
- Negotiation and draft of transfers or amendments of enterprises
- Draft of new business structures
- Adjustment and draft of working conditions and payment structures
- Lay-offs (reconciliation of interest, social plans, mass dismissals, dismissal protection suits)
- 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 formation of a works council)
- Formation 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 of the constructive cooperation: exclusion of individual works council members or dissolution of the works council for gross breach of duties; termination of members of the works council
- Advice a
- Negotiation and draft of company agreements and (internal) 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 committees
- Representation and support of the employer in other disputes with the works council outside and in court
- Advice of the employer regarding the handling of the representation of severely disabled 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 service contract and conduct of trials regarding termination and compensation
- Draft of agreements regarding prohibition of competition and post-contractual restraint; support in procedures particularly within injunctions referring to prohibition of competition
- Organ liability, 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 security in case of posting or parallel work in several individual countries
- Representation in all individual and collective disputes in labor courts (labor
- Support and representation of the employer in the conciliation committee
- International labor law
- Draft of cross-border staff assignment (labor law, social security law and law of residence permits, 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 draft of companies
- Company agreements and shareholders agreements
- Amendment of the articles of association, capital measures
- Draft of the organization structure and advice in corporate governance
- Disputes within the company
- Organization of and support in shareholders’ meetings and general meetings, procedures because of deficiencies in resolutions
- Liquidation of companies
- Advising of start-up companies
- Corporate housekeeping
- Restructuring & reorganization
- Change of legal form
- Mergers
- Divisions, particularly spin-off of parts of a company
- Creation of holding structures
- Corporate agreements and other legal relationships in groups
- Restructuring & insolvency
- Counseling how to manage insolvencies
- Creation of and support in restructuring concepts
- Preparation and support of insolvency plan procedures
- Counseling of creditors, managements and shareholders
- Insolvency administration
- Company succession
- Adjustment of company agreements with regard to succession planning
- Restructuring of companies and group of companies with regard to succession planning
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Draft and preparation of the prospectus of investment funds
- Venture capital and private equity financings
- Counseling in connection with public offering
- Support of purchasers and sellers to the acquisition of companies including due diligence and disputes following mergers & acquisitions
- Corporate governance & compliance
- Compliance guidelines and operational instructions
- Compliance management systems
- Organization of internal company structures
- Allocation of business
- Business organization
- Representation of companies and managers concerning management and board member liability
- (International) commerce
- General terms and conditions
- Confidentiality agreements
- Commercial transaction
- Law of commercial agents
- Freight and forwarding law
- International commercial law
- Sales law
- Foreign trade legislation, export control & embargos
- Distribution cartel law
- Representation in dealing with the Federal antitrust authorities and the European Commission
- Application for exemption from prohibition of competition
- Application for exemption from prohibition of competition
- 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
- Labor law
- Residence law
- Trainings
- Draft of General transport conditions and general inquiries regarding flight handling
- Enforcement/defense of claims against third parties
- Data protection law
- Employee data protection
- Draft and implementation of technical and organizational measures pursuant to the Federal Data Protection Act
- Company organization 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
- Draft of commercial tenancy and leasing agreements
- Draft of sale and rent-back/lease-back agreements
- Support in contract negotiations, termination and questions regarding current leasing
- Litigation, arbitration and ADR
- Representation in all local, district and higher regional courts in civil procedures
- Arbitration proceedings
- Alternative dispute resolution proceedings, for example mediation
- Competence
- Distribution cartel law
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- Building law & real estate
- Real estate
- Project planning
- Realization
- 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
- Assistance in tendering procedures, PPP-projects
- Property purchase
- 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 defense of supplement claims
- Warranty management
- Defense of claims
- Preservation of evidence
- Interim legal protection
- Seminars and (inhouse) training courses in all mentioned fields of competence
- Project planning
- Building law & real estate
- Conflict solutions
- 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 and public international law
- Legislative procedures
- Litigation & representation before authorities
- Represenation before municipal, regional and federal authorities as well as before arbitration courts, German and European courts
- Advice on and support in coping with legislative bodies and political organizations, observation and analysis of political developments during the legislative process
- Draft of lines of argumentation and statements in case 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
- Regulatorylaw
- 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 & capitalmarket
- Liability for inappropriate investment counseling
- Design and review of (security) prospectus
- Preparation and support of bond issues and initial public offerings
- Mezzanine financing
- Bank contractlaw
- 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 land, advice on development planning and land use including project and site development, draft and negotiation of urban development contracts
- Advice on urban development and restructuring measures
- Advice on project and allocation structure under private law and the contract models
- Draft and review of project and construction contracts (architects, co
- Preparation and execution of tendering procedures
- Support in contract negotiations
- Construction related and strategic support, mainly with regard to large building projects and plant construction (for example construction of power plants, industrial plants) and security and collection of receivables
- Examination of supplements and justification
- Advice on claims resulting from the construction time
- Support in a crises, for example in case of loss of construction parties
- Criminal construction law (anticompetitive agreements, illegal employment, constructional hazard, environmental offense, acts of fraud and unfaithfulness in accounting)
- Preparation and supervision of the acceptance
- Examination of installments and final invoices
- Utilization
- Design of commercial tenancy and leasing agreements
- Design of sale and lease-back/lease-back agreements
- Support in contract negotiations, termination and questions regarding current leasing
- Avoidance of conflicts by contractual draft
- Strategic support in conflicts
- Remuneration, supplements and prosecution of material defects
- Objections of neighbors and opposition proceedings
- Official conflict management, for example construction interruption
- 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
- Targeted 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
- Targeted 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
- Targeted 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 generator facilities
- Easements and heritage building rights
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Network connection, power input and financial support
- Energy saving contracting for industry and communes
- 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 communes
- 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 of power plant residues
- Advice regarding the law on life-cycle management and disposal ordinance
- Renewable energies
- Targeted execution of planning approval procedures and licensing procedures
- Placing of planning and construction contracts
- Network connection, power input, direct marketing and financial support pursuant to the renewable energy act
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Acquisition and sale and restructuring of supply companies
- Due diligence
- Drafting and negotiating of share purchase agreements
- Transfer of undertakings pursuant to § 613a German Civil Code
- Antitrust advice
- Investment advice, shares in power plants (parks) and networks
- 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 interim legal protection
- 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
- Interim legal protection
- 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 oft rademarks and property rights
- Defense 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 and design patent law
- Copyright agreements, publishing contracts
- Draft of agreements regarding multimedia analysis
- Artists‘ contracts and producers‘ contracts
- Concert and show contractrs
- Advertising music contracts
- Design contracts and utility model licenses
- Enforcement of copyrights
- Defense of copyright infringements and product counterfeiting
- 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
- Defense of exploitation of market power, delivery stop
- 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
- Expedited 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 organization
- Data protection concerning marketing and distribution
- Data protection concerning labor 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: assessment of place of jurisdiction and choice of law as well as draft 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 before institutional arbitration courts or arbitration courts established ad hoc
- Interim legal protection & legal enforcement
- Interim injunction
- Interim order
- Arrest
- Default action
- Compulsory execution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution - ADR
- Mediation
- Arbitration opinion
- Conciliation proceedings
- Representation before authorities & preliminary procedures
- Administrative procedures
- Opposition proceedings
- Proceedings of the public participation
- Protective brief
- 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 procedures and execution of foreign decisions 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
- Notarizations & authentication
- Raffles & draws
- Labor and employment
- Recruiting, drafting of employment contracts, current employment
- Legal aspects of staff acquisition, selection of personnel and employment of personnel
- Employment contracts and connected agreements
- Limited-term contracts (limitation with and without reason, limited employment beyond the pension 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 during and outside parental leave, care period and family period, sabbaticals
- Corporate integration management
- Written warnings
- Notice of terminations, cancellation and winding-up agreements
- Certificates
- Employment of temporary workers
- Work contracts, service contracts, avoidance of bogus self-employment
- Supply of temporary workers
- Management contracts
- Transactions, restructuring & reorganization
- Due diligence concerning labor law
- Negotiation and draft of transfers or amendments of enterprises
- Draft of new business structures
- Adjustment and draft of working conditions and payment structures
- Lay-offs (reconciliation of interest, social plans, mass dismissals, dismissal protection suits)
- 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 formation of a works council)
- Formation 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 of the constructive cooperation: exclusion of individual works council members or dissolution of the works council for gross breach of duties; termination of members of the works council
- Advice a
- Negotiation and draft of company agreements and (internal) 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 committees
- Representation and support of the employer in other disputes with the works council outside and in court
- Advice of the employer regarding the handling of the representation of severely disabled 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 service contract and conduct of trials regarding termination and compensation
- Draft of agreements regarding prohibition of competition and post-contractual restraint; support in procedures particularly within injunctions referring to prohibition of competition
- Organ liability, 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 security in case of posting or parallel work in several individual countries
- Litigation & arbitration
- Representation in all individual and collective disputes in labor courts (labor
- Support and representation of the employer in the conciliation committee
- International labor law
- Draft of cross-border staff assignment (labor law, social security law and law of residence permits, 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 consulting and planning, support with communication within family members
- Anticipated inheritance, draft of donation agreements
- Draft of testamentary dispositions (wills, inheritance contracts)
- Agreements on waiver of compulsory share
- Establishment of foundations, sub-foundations
- 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 draft of companies
- Company agreements and shareholders agreements
- Amendment of the articles of association, capital measures
- Draft of the organization structure and advice in corporate governance
- Organization of and support in shareholders’ meetings and general meetings, procedures because of deficiencies in resolutions
- Disputes within the company
- Liquidation of companies
- Advising of start-up companies
- Corporate housekeeping
- Restructuring & reorganization
- Change of legal form
- Mergers
- Divisions, particularly spin-off of parts of a company
- Creation of holding structures
- Corporate agreements and other legal relationships in groups
- Restructuring & insolvency
- Counseling how to manage insolvencies
- Creation of and support in restructuring concepts
- Preparation and support of insolvency plan procedures
- Counseling of creditors, managements and shareholders
- Insolvency administration
- Company succession
- Advice on and planning of succession, support on family intern communication
- Draft of testamentary dispositions (wills, inheritance contracts)
- Adjustment of company agreements with regard to succession planning
- Restructuring of companies and group of companies with regard to succession planning
- Establishment of foundations, sub-foundations
- Clarification and draft of succession issues under private international law
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Support of purchasers and sellers to the acquisition of companies including due diligence and disputes following mergers & acquisitions
- Venture capital and private equity financings
- Draft and preparation of the prospectus of investment funds
- Counseling in connection with public offering
- Corporate governance & compliance
- Organization of internal company structures
- Allocation of business
- Business organization
- Representation of companies and managers concerning management and board member liability
- Compliance management systems
- Compliance guidelines and operational instructions
- Advice and representation in case of compliance infringements
- (International) commerce
- General terms and conditions
- Confidentiality agreements
- Commercial transaction
- Sales 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 cartel law
- Application for exemption from prohibition of competition
- Drafting of contracts under antitrust aspects
- Application of mergers/merger control proceedings
- Representation in dealing with the Federal antitrust authorities and the European Commission
- Airlines & aviation
- Claims management
- Cargo transport
- Draft of General transport conditions and general inquiries regarding 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/defense of claims against third parties
- Labor law
- Residence law
- Trainings
- Data protection law
- Employee data protection
- Draft and implementation of technical and organizational measures pursuant to the Federal Data Protection Act
- Company organization 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
- Draft of commercial tenancy and leasing agreements
- Draft of sale and rent-back/lease-back agreements
- Support in contract negotiations, termination and questions regarding current leasing
- Litigation, arbitration and ADR
- Representation in all local, district and higher regional courts in civil procedures
- 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 and franchise systems
- Law of commercial agencies
- Concessionary 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 prohibition of competition
- Draft of agreements regarding antitrust aspects
- Notification of mergers
- Representation to 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 or amendment of zoning plans
- Project
- Advice on building permit processes and notification procedures
- Execution of and advice on plan approval procedures including participation of the public
- Advice on pollution protection permission procedures with regard to the location or extension of operations (industry and commerce, energy plants, sport facilities, leisure parks)
- Monument conservation
- Advice on development contributions and local rates
- Advice on pollution protection (particularly sound, smell) within pollution protection permissions, approaching constructions or subsequent conditions (particularly defense of orders restricting the production)
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental liability of companies
- Polluted areas and soil conservation
- Sewage disposal, indirect discharge of commercial and industrial wastewater, advice on and support in licensing procedures of sewage treatment plants, demand of fees
- 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 movement – requirements under public law and contract law
- Chemicals law
- Advice on regional development planning, zoning plans
- Advice on developers and communities and adjoining owners referring to the execution of planning approval procedures and licensing procedures (planning, construction and operation of airports, rail network, road construction, construction of motorways)
- Replacement and compensation measures (nature and landscape), protection requirements
- Advice on the execution of expropriation procedures
- Advice on the raising objections, execution of discussion hearings and the conduct of law suits
- Support in tenders for tracks and networks in rail traffic
- 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 city-owned participations
- Conception and structuring of models for the inclusion of privates into the public fulfillment of tasks, for example in the circular economy law, water right or traffic infrastructure
- Foundation of mixed-economy enterprises of different legal forms
- Legal support from tendering procedures to the privatization of public utilities and waste management companies as well as the award of service and construction orders including concession
- Advice on municipal law of all 16 Laender
- Local rate law and law on fees for development
- Structuring and execution of national and European procurement procedures
- Support of public employers and bidders in tenders for construction projects and services as well as concessions (pursuant to GWB, VgV, VOB/A and budget law)
- Support of public employers and bidders with regard to awards in the sectors energy (gas, heat, electricity), water and transportation services (pursuant to SektVO)
- Advice on the draft of models without procurement (for example inhouse-procurement, horizontal cooperation of public employers, amendment of existing contracts) and in competitive tendering procedures (as architectural competitions) outside procurement law
- Preparation of PPP and financing models in traffic and for municipal buildings (as for example day cares, schools, fire stations, courts, swimming pools, multipurpose halls), support in investor selection processes
- Representation of employers and bidders in review of procurement procedures
- Support in the preparation of applications for subsidies
- Advice on the compliance of terms and requirements with regard to investment grants
- Conseil en dispositions pertinentes et obligations au cas de subventions à l’investissement
- Legal protection in connection with suits of competitors (implementation and defense of respective claims)
- European environmental and technology law
- European subsidy law
- Application of EU regulations and effects of EU regulations on the national law
- Counseling of state sector and investors in transnational projects
- Advice on contracts under public international law (as for example double taxation agreements, ECHR, WTO Agreement, UN Charta, Geneva Convention)
- Seminars & training
- We offer seminars and inhouse-training regarding all topics mentioned above for public employers as well as for companies
- Law of commercial and tax offenses
- Law regarding commercial offenses
- Preventive advice
- Attendance to searches and seizures
- Defense in criminal (investigation) proceedings and regulatory offense procedures
- Law regarding fiscal offenses
- Preventive advice
- Counseling and representation in cases of voluntary reports of incorrect tax returns filed with the authorities
- Attendance to searches and seizures
- Defense in criminal (investigation) proceedings and regulatory offense procedures
- Compliance
- Draft of compliance systems
- Creation of compliance rules
- (In-house-)compliance trainings and seminars
- Examination of existing compliance systems
- Internal examination in reaction to current events or to disclose weak points in the company’s organization and the compliance system
- Compliance due diligence in case of M&A
- Counseling and representation in compliance infringements
- Enforcement of claims of compensation
- Litigation
- Defense in all German courts and in all instances
- Enforcement of claims of compensation of companies against employees in case of compliance infringements
- Energy
- Energy plant construction
- Planning, allocation and construction of networks
- Targeted 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
- Targeted 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
- Targeted 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 generator facilities
- Easements and heritage building rights
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Network connection, power input and financial support
- Energy saving contracting for industry and communes
- 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 communes
- 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 of power plant residues
- Advice regarding the law on life-cycle management and disposal ordinance
- Renewable energies
- Targeted execution of planning approval procedures and licensing procedures
- Placing of planning and construction contracts
- Network connection, power input, direct marketing and financial support pursuant to the renewable energy act
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Due diligence
- Acquisition and sale and restructuring of supply companies
- Drafting and negotiating of share purchase agreements
- Transfer of undertakings pursuant to § 613a German Civil Code
- Antitrust advice
- Investment advice, shares in power plants (parks) and networks
- 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 interim legal protection
- 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
- Interim legal protection
- 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
- Regulatorylaw
- 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 & capitalmarket
- Liability for inappropriate investment counseling
- Design and review of (security) prospectus
- Preparation and support of bond issues and initial public offerings
- Mezzanine financing
- Bank contractlaw
- 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
- Assistance in tendering procedures, PPP-projects
- Property purchase
- Development of building land, advice on development planning and land use including project and site development, draft and negotiation of urban development contracts
- Advice on urban development and restructuring measures
- Advice on project and allocation structure under private law and the contract models
- Draft and review of project and construction contracts (architects, co
- Preparation and execution of tendering procedures
- Support in contract negotiations
- Realization
- 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 defense of supplement claims
- Warranty management
- Construction related and strategic support, mainly with regard to large building projects and plant construction (for example construction of power plants, industrial plants) and security and collection of receivables
- Examination of supplements and justification
- Advice on claims resulting from the construction time
- Support in a crises, for example in case of loss of construction parties
- Criminal construction law (anticompetitive agreements, illegal employment, constructional hazard, environmental offense, acts of fraud and unfaithfulness in accounting)
- Preparation and supervision of the acceptance
- Examination of installments and final invoices
- Utilization
- Design of commercial tenancy and leasing agreements
- Design of sale and lease-back/lease-back agreements
- 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
- Defense of claims
- Preservation of evidence
- Avoidance of conflicts by contractual draft
- Strategic support in conflicts
- Remuneration, supplements and prosecution of material defects
- Objections of neighbors and opposition proceedings
- Official conflict management, for example construction interruption
- Judicial review proceedings, allocation complaint and review procedures
- Ordinary jurisdiction, arbitration, ombudsman proceedings and other conciliation procedures including arbitration agreements
- Interim legal protection
- 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 organization
- Data protection concerning marketing and distribution
- Data protection concerning labor 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 oft rademarks and property rights
- Defense 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 and design patent law
- Copyright agreements, publishing contracts
- Draft of agreements regarding multimedia analysis
- Artists‘ contracts and producers‘ contracts
- Concert and show contractrs
- Advertising music contracts
- Design contracts and utility model licenses
- Enforcement of copyrights
- Defense of copyright infringements and product counterfeiting
- 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
- Draft of agreements regarding antitrust aspects
- Drafting of contracts under antitrust aspects
- Draft of contracts considering antitrust law
- Defense of exploitation of market power, delivery stop
- Notification of mergers
- Registration of mergers
- Application 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
- Expedited proceedings, interim injunctions
- Opposition proceedings
- Annulment proceedings
- Conflict solutions
- 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: assessment of place of jurisdiction and choice of law as well as draft 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 before institutional arbitration courts or arbitration courts established ad hoc
- Interim legal protection & legal enforcement
- Interim injunction
- Interim order
- Arrest
- Default action
- Compulsory execution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution - ADR
- Mediation
- Arbitration opinion
- Conciliation proceedings
- Representation before authorities & preliminary procedures
- Administrative procedures
- Opposition proceedings
- Proceedings of the public participation
- Protective brief
- 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 procedures and execution of foreign decisions 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
- Notarizations & authentication
- Raffles & draws
- Private Clients
- Succession planning & donation
- Succession consulting and planning, support with communication within family members
- Advice on and planning of succession, support on family intern 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, sub-foundations
- Establishment of foundations, sub-foundations
- Clarification and draft of succession issues under private international law
- 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
- Law of commercial and tax offenses
- Law regarding commercial offenses
- Preventive advice
- Preventive advice
- Attendance to searches and seizures
- Attendance to searches and seizures
- Defense in criminal (investigation) proceedings and regulatory offense procedures
- Defense in criminal (investigation) proceedings and regulatory offense procedures
- Law regarding fiscal offenses
- Counseling and representation in cases of voluntary reports of incorrect tax returns filed with the authorities
- Compliance
- Draft of compliance systems
- Creation of compliance rules
- (In-house-)compliance trainings and seminars
- Examination of existing compliance systems
- Internal examination in reaction to current events or to disclose weak points in the company’s organization and the compliance system
- Compliance due diligence in case of M&A
- Advice and representation in case of compliance infringements
- Counseling and representation in compliance infringements
- Enforcement of claims of compensation
- Defense in all German courts and in all instances
- Enforcement of claims of compensation of companies against employees in case of compliance infringements
- Distribution & (international) trade
- Distribution and franchise systems
- Law of commercial agencies
- Concessionary law
- Law of authorized dealers
- Franchise agreements
- Affiliate marketing
- Draft of other distribution structures
- E-Commerce
- E-Commerce
- Webshops
- Social Media
- Representation to 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 or amendment of zoning plans
- Project
- Advice on building permit processes and notification procedures
- Execution of and advice on plan approval procedures including participation of the public
- Advice on pollution protection permission procedures with regard to the location or extension of operations (industry and commerce, energy plants, sport facilities, leisure parks)
- Monument conservation
- Advice on development contributions and local rates
- Environment & waste management
- Advice on pollution protection (particularly sound, smell) within pollution protection permissions, approaching constructions or subsequent conditions (particularly defense of orders restricting the production)
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental liability of companies
- Polluted areas and soil conservation
- Sewage disposal, indirect discharge of commercial and industrial wastewater, advice on and support in licensing procedures of sewage treatment plants, demand of fees
- 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 movement – requirements under public law and contract law
- Chemicals law
- Infrastructure: air, rail & road
- Advice on regional development planning, zoning plans
- Advice on developers and communities and adjoining owners referring to the execution of planning approval procedures and licensing procedures (planning, construction and operation of airports, rail network, road construction, construction of motorways)
- Replacement and compensation measures (nature and landscape), protection requirements
- Advice on the execution of expropriation procedures
- Advice on the raising objections, execution of discussion hearings and the conduct of law suits
- Support in tenders for tracks and networks in rail traffic
- 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 city-owned participations
- Conception and structuring of models for the inclusion of privates into the public fulfillment of tasks, for example in the circular economy law, water right or traffic infrastructure
- Foundation of mixed-economy enterprises of different legal forms
- Legal support from tendering procedures to the privatization of public utilities and waste management companies as well as the award of service and construction orders including concession
- Advice on municipal law of all 16 Laender
- Local rate law and law on fees for development
- Procurement & Public Private Partnership
- Structuring and execution of national and European procurement procedures
- Support of public employers and bidders in tenders for construction projects and services as well as concessions (pursuant to GWB, VgV, VOB/A and budget law)
- Support of public employers and bidders with regard to awards in the sectors energy (gas, heat, electricity), water and transportation services (pursuant to SektVO)
- Advice on the draft of models without procurement (for example inhouse-procurement, horizontal cooperation of public employers, amendment of existing contracts) and in competitive tendering procedures (as architectural competitions) outside procurement law
- Preparation of PPP and financing models in traffic and for municipal buildings (as for example day cares, schools, fire stations, courts, swimming pools, multipurpose halls), support in investor selection processes
- Representation of employers and bidders in review of procurement procedures
- Grants & subsidies
- Support in the preparation of applications for subsidies
- Advice on the compliance of terms and requirements with regard to investment grants
- Conseil en dispositions pertinentes et obligations au cas de subventions à l’investissement
- Legal protection in connection with suits of competitors (implementation and defense of respective claims)
- European law and public international law
- European environmental and technology law
- European subsidy law
- Application of EU regulations and effects of EU regulations on the national law
- Counseling of state sector and investors in transnational projects
- Advice on contracts under public international law (as for example double taxation agreements, ECHR, WTO Agreement, UN Charta, Geneva Convention)
- Legislative procedures
- Advice on and support in coping with legislative bodies and political organizations, observation and analysis of political developments during the legislative process
- Draft of lines of argumentation and statements in case of participation in the political decision-making process
- Draft of initiative presentations within the lobbying work of industries and associations
- Litigation & representation before authorities
- Represenation before municipal, regional and federal authorities as well as before arbitration courts, German and European courts
- Seminars & training
- We offer seminars and inhouse-training regarding all topics mentioned above for public employers as well as for companies
- Recruiting, drafting of employment contracts, current employment
- Labor and employment
- Legal aspects of staff acquisition, selection of personnel and employment of personnel
- Employment contracts and connected agreements
- Limited-term contracts (limitation with and without reason, limited employment beyond the pension 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 during and outside parental leave, care period and family period, sabbaticals
- Corporate integration management
- Written warnings
- Notice of terminations, cancellation and winding-up agreements
- Certificates
- Employment of temporary workers
- Work contracts, service contracts, avoidance of bogus self-employment
- Supply of temporary workers
- Management contracts
- Transactions, restructuring & reorganization
- Due diligence concerning labor law
- Negotiation and draft of transfers or amendments of enterprises
- Draft of new business structures
- Adjustment and draft of working conditions and payment structures
- Lay-offs (reconciliation of interest, social plans, mass dismissals, dismissal protection suits)
- 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 formation of a works council)
- Formation 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 of the constructive cooperation: exclusion of individual works council members or dissolution of the works council for gross breach of duties; termination of members of the works council
- Advice a
- Negotiation and draft of company agreements and (internal) 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 committees
- Representation and support of the employer in other disputes with the works council outside and in court
- Advice of the employer regarding the handling of the representation of severely disabled 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 service contract and conduct of trials regarding termination and compensation
- Draft of agreements regarding prohibition of competition and post-contractual restraint; support in procedures particularly within injunctions referring to prohibition of competition
- Organ liability, 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 security in case of posting or parallel work in several individual countries
- Representation in all individual and collective disputes in labor courts (labor
- Support and representation of the employer in the conciliation committee
- International labor law
- Draft of cross-border staff assignment (labor law, social security law and law of residence permits, 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 draft of companies
- Company agreements and shareholders agreements
- Amendment of the articles of association, capital measures
- Draft of the organization structure and advice in corporate governance
- Disputes within the company
- Organization of and support in shareholders’ meetings and general meetings, procedures because of deficiencies in resolutions
- Liquidation of companies
- Advising of start-up companies
- Corporate housekeeping
- Restructuring & reorganization
- Change of legal form
- Mergers
- Divisions, particularly spin-off of parts of a company
- Creation of holding structures
- Corporate agreements and other legal relationships in groups
- Restructuring & insolvency
- Counseling how to manage insolvencies
- Creation of and support in restructuring concepts
- Preparation and support of insolvency plan procedures
- Counseling of creditors, managements and shareholders
- Insolvency administration
- Company succession
- Adjustment of company agreements with regard to succession planning
- Restructuring of companies and group of companies with regard to succession planning
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Draft and preparation of the prospectus of investment funds
- Venture capital and private equity financings
- Counseling in connection with public offering
- Support of purchasers and sellers to the acquisition of companies including due diligence and disputes following mergers & acquisitions
- Corporate governance & compliance
- Compliance guidelines and operational instructions
- Compliance management systems
- Organization of internal company structures
- Allocation of business
- Business organization
- Representation of companies and managers concerning management and board member liability
- (International) commerce
- General terms and conditions
- Confidentiality agreements
- Commercial transaction
- Law of commercial agents
- Freight and forwarding law
- International commercial law
- Sales law
- Foreign trade legislation, export control & embargos
- Distribution cartel law
- Representation in dealing with the Federal antitrust authorities and the European Commission
- Application for exemption from prohibition of competition
- Application for exemption from prohibition of competition
- 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
- Labor law
- Residence law
- Trainings
- Draft of General transport conditions and general inquiries regarding flight handling
- Enforcement/defense of claims against third parties
- Data protection law
- Employee data protection
- Draft and implementation of technical and organizational measures pursuant to the Federal Data Protection Act
- Company organization 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
- Draft of commercial tenancy and leasing agreements
- Draft of sale and rent-back/lease-back agreements
- Support in contract negotiations, termination and questions regarding current leasing
- Litigation, arbitration and ADR
- Representation in all local, district and higher regional courts in civil procedures
- Arbitration proceedings
- Alternative dispute resolution proceedings, for example mediation
- Competence
- Distribution cartel law
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- Building law & real estate
- Real estate
- Project planning
- Realization
- 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
- Assistance in tendering procedures, PPP-projects
- Property purchase
- 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 defense of supplement claims
- Warranty management
- Defense of claims
- Preservation of evidence
- Interim legal protection
- Seminars and (inhouse) training courses in all mentioned fields of competence
- Project planning
- Building law & real estate
- Conflict solutions
- 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 and public international law
- Legislative procedures
- Litigation & representation before authorities
- Represenation before municipal, regional and federal authorities as well as before arbitration courts, German and European courts
- Advice on and support in coping with legislative bodies and political organizations, observation and analysis of political developments during the legislative process
- Draft of lines of argumentation and statements in case 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
- Regulatorylaw
- 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 & capitalmarket
- Liability for inappropriate investment counseling
- Design and review of (security) prospectus
- Preparation and support of bond issues and initial public offerings
- Mezzanine financing
- Bank contractlaw
- 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 land, advice on development planning and land use including project and site development, draft and negotiation of urban development contracts
- Advice on urban development and restructuring measures
- Advice on project and allocation structure under private law and the contract models
- Draft and review of project and construction contracts (architects, co
- Preparation and execution of tendering procedures
- Support in contract negotiations
- Construction related and strategic support, mainly with regard to large building projects and plant construction (for example construction of power plants, industrial plants) and security and collection of receivables
- Examination of supplements and justification
- Advice on claims resulting from the construction time
- Support in a crises, for example in case of loss of construction parties
- Criminal construction law (anticompetitive agreements, illegal employment, constructional hazard, environmental offense, acts of fraud and unfaithfulness in accounting)
- Preparation and supervision of the acceptance
- Examination of installments and final invoices
- Utilization
- Design of commercial tenancy and leasing agreements
- Design of sale and lease-back/lease-back agreements
- Support in contract negotiations, termination and questions regarding current leasing
- Avoidance of conflicts by contractual draft
- Strategic support in conflicts
- Remuneration, supplements and prosecution of material defects
- Objections of neighbors and opposition proceedings
- Official conflict management, for example construction interruption
- 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
- Targeted 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
- Targeted 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
- Targeted 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 generator facilities
- Easements and heritage building rights
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Network connection, power input and financial support
- Energy saving contracting for industry and communes
- 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 communes
- 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 of power plant residues
- Advice regarding the law on life-cycle management and disposal ordinance
- Renewable energies
- Targeted execution of planning approval procedures and licensing procedures
- Placing of planning and construction contracts
- Network connection, power input, direct marketing and financial support pursuant to the renewable energy act
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Acquisition and sale and restructuring of supply companies
- Due diligence
- Drafting and negotiating of share purchase agreements
- Transfer of undertakings pursuant to § 613a German Civil Code
- Antitrust advice
- Investment advice, shares in power plants (parks) and networks
- 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 interim legal protection
- 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
- Interim legal protection
- 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 oft rademarks and property rights
- Defense 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 and design patent law
- Copyright agreements, publishing contracts
- Draft of agreements regarding multimedia analysis
- Artists‘ contracts and producers‘ contracts
- Concert and show contractrs
- Advertising music contracts
- Design contracts and utility model licenses
- Enforcement of copyrights
- Defense of copyright infringements and product counterfeiting
- 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
- Defense of exploitation of market power, delivery stop
- 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
- Expedited 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 organization
- Data protection concerning marketing and distribution
- Data protection concerning labor 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: assessment of place of jurisdiction and choice of law as well as draft 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 before institutional arbitration courts or arbitration courts established ad hoc
- Interim legal protection & legal enforcement
- Interim injunction
- Interim order
- Arrest
- Default action
- Compulsory execution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution - ADR
- Mediation
- Arbitration opinion
- Conciliation proceedings
- Representation before authorities & preliminary procedures
- Administrative procedures
- Opposition proceedings
- Proceedings of the public participation
- Protective brief
- 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 procedures and execution of foreign decisions 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
- Notarizations & authentication
- Raffles & draws
- Labor and employment
- Recruiting, drafting of employment contracts, current employment
- Legal aspects of staff acquisition, selection of personnel and employment of personnel
- Employment contracts and connected agreements
- Limited-term contracts (limitation with and without reason, limited employment beyond the pension 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 during and outside parental leave, care period and family period, sabbaticals
- Corporate integration management
- Written warnings
- Notice of terminations, cancellation and winding-up agreements
- Certificates
- Employment of temporary workers
- Work contracts, service contracts, avoidance of bogus self-employment
- Supply of temporary workers
- Management contracts
- Transactions, restructuring & reorganization
- Due diligence concerning labor law
- Negotiation and draft of transfers or amendments of enterprises
- Draft of new business structures
- Adjustment and draft of working conditions and payment structures
- Lay-offs (reconciliation of interest, social plans, mass dismissals, dismissal protection suits)
- 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 formation of a works council)
- Formation 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 of the constructive cooperation: exclusion of individual works council members or dissolution of the works council for gross breach of duties; termination of members of the works council
- Advice a
- Negotiation and draft of company agreements and (internal) 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 committees
- Representation and support of the employer in other disputes with the works council outside and in court
- Advice of the employer regarding the handling of the representation of severely disabled 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 service contract and conduct of trials regarding termination and compensation
- Draft of agreements regarding prohibition of competition and post-contractual restraint; support in procedures particularly within injunctions referring to prohibition of competition
- Organ liability, 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 security in case of posting or parallel work in several individual countries
- Litigation & arbitration
- Representation in all individual and collective disputes in labor courts (labor
- Support and representation of the employer in the conciliation committee
- International labor law
- Draft of cross-border staff assignment (labor law, social security law and law of residence permits, 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 consulting and planning, support with communication within family members
- Anticipated inheritance, draft of donation agreements
- Draft of testamentary dispositions (wills, inheritance contracts)
- Agreements on waiver of compulsory share
- Establishment of foundations, sub-foundations
- 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 draft of companies
- Company agreements and shareholders agreements
- Amendment of the articles of association, capital measures
- Draft of the organization structure and advice in corporate governance
- Organization of and support in shareholders’ meetings and general meetings, procedures because of deficiencies in resolutions
- Disputes within the company
- Liquidation of companies
- Advising of start-up companies
- Corporate housekeeping
- Restructuring & reorganization
- Change of legal form
- Mergers
- Divisions, particularly spin-off of parts of a company
- Creation of holding structures
- Corporate agreements and other legal relationships in groups
- Restructuring & insolvency
- Counseling how to manage insolvencies
- Creation of and support in restructuring concepts
- Preparation and support of insolvency plan procedures
- Counseling of creditors, managements and shareholders
- Insolvency administration
- Company succession
- Advice on and planning of succession, support on family intern communication
- Draft of testamentary dispositions (wills, inheritance contracts)
- Adjustment of company agreements with regard to succession planning
- Restructuring of companies and group of companies with regard to succession planning
- Establishment of foundations, sub-foundations
- Clarification and draft of succession issues under private international law
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Support of purchasers and sellers to the acquisition of companies including due diligence and disputes following mergers & acquisitions
- Venture capital and private equity financings
- Draft and preparation of the prospectus of investment funds
- Counseling in connection with public offering
- Corporate governance & compliance
- Organization of internal company structures
- Allocation of business
- Business organization
- Representation of companies and managers concerning management and board member liability
- Compliance management systems
- Compliance guidelines and operational instructions
- Advice and representation in case of compliance infringements
- (International) commerce
- General terms and conditions
- Confidentiality agreements
- Commercial transaction
- Sales 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 cartel law
- Application for exemption from prohibition of competition
- Drafting of contracts under antitrust aspects
- Application of mergers/merger control proceedings
- Representation in dealing with the Federal antitrust authorities and the European Commission
- Airlines & aviation
- Claims management
- Cargo transport
- Draft of General transport conditions and general inquiries regarding 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/defense of claims against third parties
- Labor law
- Residence law
- Trainings
- Data protection law
- Employee data protection
- Draft and implementation of technical and organizational measures pursuant to the Federal Data Protection Act
- Company organization 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
- Draft of commercial tenancy and leasing agreements
- Draft of sale and rent-back/lease-back agreements
- Support in contract negotiations, termination and questions regarding current leasing
- Litigation, arbitration and ADR
- Representation in all local, district and higher regional courts in civil procedures
- 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 and franchise systems
- Law of commercial agencies
- Concessionary 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 prohibition of competition
- Draft of agreements regarding antitrust aspects
- Notification of mergers
- Representation to 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 or amendment of zoning plans
- Project
- Advice on building permit processes and notification procedures
- Execution of and advice on plan approval procedures including participation of the public
- Advice on pollution protection permission procedures with regard to the location or extension of operations (industry and commerce, energy plants, sport facilities, leisure parks)
- Monument conservation
- Advice on development contributions and local rates
- Advice on pollution protection (particularly sound, smell) within pollution protection permissions, approaching constructions or subsequent conditions (particularly defense of orders restricting the production)
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental liability of companies
- Polluted areas and soil conservation
- Sewage disposal, indirect discharge of commercial and industrial wastewater, advice on and support in licensing procedures of sewage treatment plants, demand of fees
- 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 movement – requirements under public law and contract law
- Chemicals law
- Advice on regional development planning, zoning plans
- Advice on developers and communities and adjoining owners referring to the execution of planning approval procedures and licensing procedures (planning, construction and operation of airports, rail network, road construction, construction of motorways)
- Replacement and compensation measures (nature and landscape), protection requirements
- Advice on the execution of expropriation procedures
- Advice on the raising objections, execution of discussion hearings and the conduct of law suits
- Support in tenders for tracks and networks in rail traffic
- 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 city-owned participations
- Conception and structuring of models for the inclusion of privates into the public fulfillment of tasks, for example in the circular economy law, water right or traffic infrastructure
- Foundation of mixed-economy enterprises of different legal forms
- Legal support from tendering procedures to the privatization of public utilities and waste management companies as well as the award of service and construction orders including concession
- Advice on municipal law of all 16 Laender
- Local rate law and law on fees for development
- Structuring and execution of national and European procurement procedures
- Support of public employers and bidders in tenders for construction projects and services as well as concessions (pursuant to GWB, VgV, VOB/A and budget law)
- Support of public employers and bidders with regard to awards in the sectors energy (gas, heat, electricity), water and transportation services (pursuant to SektVO)
- Advice on the draft of models without procurement (for example inhouse-procurement, horizontal cooperation of public employers, amendment of existing contracts) and in competitive tendering procedures (as architectural competitions) outside procurement law
- Preparation of PPP and financing models in traffic and for municipal buildings (as for example day cares, schools, fire stations, courts, swimming pools, multipurpose halls), support in investor selection processes
- Representation of employers and bidders in review of procurement procedures
- Support in the preparation of applications for subsidies
- Advice on the compliance of terms and requirements with regard to investment grants
- Conseil en dispositions pertinentes et obligations au cas de subventions à l’investissement
- Legal protection in connection with suits of competitors (implementation and defense of respective claims)
- European environmental and technology law
- European subsidy law
- Application of EU regulations and effects of EU regulations on the national law
- Counseling of state sector and investors in transnational projects
- Advice on contracts under public international law (as for example double taxation agreements, ECHR, WTO Agreement, UN Charta, Geneva Convention)
- Seminars & training
- We offer seminars and inhouse-training regarding all topics mentioned above for public employers as well as for companies
- Law of commercial and tax offenses
- Law regarding commercial offenses
- Preventive advice
- Attendance to searches and seizures
- Defense in criminal (investigation) proceedings and regulatory offense procedures
- Law regarding fiscal offenses
- Preventive advice
- Counseling and representation in cases of voluntary reports of incorrect tax returns filed with the authorities
- Attendance to searches and seizures
- Defense in criminal (investigation) proceedings and regulatory offense procedures
- Compliance
- Draft of compliance systems
- Creation of compliance rules
- (In-house-)compliance trainings and seminars
- Examination of existing compliance systems
- Internal examination in reaction to current events or to disclose weak points in the company’s organization and the compliance system
- Compliance due diligence in case of M&A
- Counseling and representation in compliance infringements
- Enforcement of claims of compensation
- Litigation
- Defense in all German courts and in all instances
- Enforcement of claims of compensation of companies against employees in case of compliance infringements
- Energy
- Energy plant construction
- Planning, allocation and construction of networks
- Targeted 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
- Targeted 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
- Targeted 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 generator facilities
- Easements and heritage building rights
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Network connection, power input and financial support
- Energy saving contracting for industry and communes
- 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 communes
- 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 of power plant residues
- Advice regarding the law on life-cycle management and disposal ordinance
- Renewable energies
- Targeted execution of planning approval procedures and licensing procedures
- Placing of planning and construction contracts
- Network connection, power input, direct marketing and financial support pursuant to the renewable energy act
- Drafting and negotiating of management contracts
- Due diligence
- Acquisition and sale and restructuring of supply companies
- Drafting and negotiating of share purchase agreements
- Transfer of undertakings pursuant to § 613a German Civil Code
- Antitrust advice
- Investment advice, shares in power plants (parks) and networks
- 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 interim legal protection
- 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
- Interim legal protection
- 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
- Regulatorylaw
- 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 & capitalmarket
- Liability for inappropriate investment counseling
- Design and review of (security) prospectus
- Preparation and support of bond issues and initial public offerings
- Mezzanine financing
- Bank contractlaw
- 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
- Assistance in tendering procedures, PPP-projects
- Property purchase
- Development of building land, advice on development planning and land use including project and site development, draft and negotiation of urban development contracts
- Advice on urban development and restructuring measures
- Advice on project and allocation structure under private law and the contract models
- Draft and review of project and construction contracts (architects, co
- Preparation and execution of tendering procedures
- Support in contract negotiations
- Realization
- 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 defense of supplement claims
- Warranty management
- Construction related and strategic support, mainly with regard to large building projects and plant construction (for example construction of power plants, industrial plants) and security and collection of receivables
- Examination of supplements and justification
- Advice on claims resulting from the construction time
- Support in a crises, for example in case of loss of construction parties
- Criminal construction law (anticompetitive agreements, illegal employment, constructional hazard, environmental offense, acts of fraud and unfaithfulness in accounting)
- Preparation and supervision of the acceptance
- Examination of installments and final invoices
- Utilization
- Design of commercial tenancy and leasing agreements
- Design of sale and lease-back/lease-back agreements
- 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
- Defense of claims
- Preservation of evidence
- Avoidance of conflicts by contractual draft
- Strategic support in conflicts
- Remuneration, supplements and prosecution of material defects
- Objections of neighbors and opposition proceedings
- Official conflict management, for example construction interruption
- Judicial review proceedings, allocation complaint and review procedures
- Ordinary jurisdiction, arbitration, ombudsman proceedings and other conciliation procedures including arbitration agreements
- Interim legal protection
- 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 organization
- Data protection concerning marketing and distribution
- Data protection concerning labor 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 oft rademarks and property rights
- Defense 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 and design patent law
- Copyright agreements, publishing contracts
- Draft of agreements regarding multimedia analysis
- Artists‘ contracts and producers‘ contracts
- Concert and show contractrs
- Advertising music contracts
- Design contracts and utility model licenses
- Enforcement of copyrights
- Defense of copyright infringements and product counterfeiting
- 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
- Draft of agreements regarding antitrust aspects
- Drafting of contracts under antitrust aspects
- Draft of contracts considering antitrust law
- Defense of exploitation of market power, delivery stop
- Notification of mergers
- Registration of mergers
- Application 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
- Expedited proceedings, interim injunctions
- Opposition proceedings
- Annulment proceedings
- Conflict solutions
- 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: assessment of place of jurisdiction and choice of law as well as draft 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 before institutional arbitration courts or arbitration courts established ad hoc
- Interim legal protection & legal enforcement
- Interim injunction
- Interim order
- Arrest
- Default action
- Compulsory execution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution - ADR
- Mediation
- Arbitration opinion
- Conciliation proceedings
- Representation before authorities & preliminary procedures
- Administrative procedures
- Opposition proceedings
- Proceedings of the public participation
- Protective brief
- 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 procedures and execution of foreign decisions 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
- Notarizations & authentication
- Raffles & draws
- Private Clients
- Succession planning & donation
- Succession consulting and planning, support with communication within family members
- Advice on and planning of succession, support on family intern 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, sub-foundations
- Establishment of foundations, sub-foundations
- Clarification and draft of succession issues under private international law
- 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
- Law of commercial and tax offenses
- Law regarding commercial offenses
- Preventive advice
- Preventive advice
- Attendance to searches and seizures
- Attendance to searches and seizures
- Defense in criminal (investigation) proceedings and regulatory offense procedures
- Defense in criminal (investigation) proceedings and regulatory offense procedures
- Law regarding fiscal offenses
- Counseling and representation in cases of voluntary reports of incorrect tax returns filed with the authorities
- Compliance
- Draft of compliance systems
- Creation of compliance rules
- (In-house-)compliance trainings and seminars
- Examination of existing compliance systems
- Internal examination in reaction to current events or to disclose weak points in the company’s organization and the compliance system
- Compliance due diligence in case of M&A
- Advice and representation in case of compliance infringements
- Counseling and representation in compliance infringements
- Enforcement of claims of compensation
- Defense in all German courts and in all instances
- Enforcement of claims of compensation of companies against employees in case of compliance infringements
- Distribution & (international) trade
- Distribution and franchise systems
- Law of commercial agencies
- Concessionary law
- Law of authorized dealers
- Franchise agreements
- Affiliate marketing
- Draft of other distribution structures
- E-Commerce
- E-Commerce
- Webshops
- Social Media
- Representation to 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 or amendment of zoning plans
- Project
- Advice on building permit processes and notification procedures
- Execution of and advice on plan approval procedures including participation of the public
- Advice on pollution protection permission procedures with regard to the location or extension of operations (industry and commerce, energy plants, sport facilities, leisure parks)
- Monument conservation
- Advice on development contributions and local rates
- Environment & waste management
- Advice on pollution protection (particularly sound, smell) within pollution protection permissions, approaching constructions or subsequent conditions (particularly defense of orders restricting the production)
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental liability of companies
- Polluted areas and soil conservation
- Sewage disposal, indirect discharge of commercial and industrial wastewater, advice on and support in licensing procedures of sewage treatment plants, demand of fees
- 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 movement – requirements under public law and contract law
- Chemicals law
- Infrastructure: air, rail & road
- Advice on regional development planning, zoning plans
- Advice on developers and communities and adjoining owners referring to the execution of planning approval procedures and licensing procedures (planning, construction and operation of airports, rail network, road construction, construction of motorways)
- Replacement and compensation measures (nature and landscape), protection requirements
- Advice on the execution of expropriation procedures
- Advice on the raising objections, execution of discussion hearings and the conduct of law suits
- Support in tenders for tracks and networks in rail traffic
- 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 city-owned participations
- Conception and structuring of models for the inclusion of privates into the public fulfillment of tasks, for example in the circular economy law, water right or traffic infrastructure
- Foundation of mixed-economy enterprises of different legal forms
- Legal support from tendering procedures to the privatization of public utilities and waste management companies as well as the award of service and construction orders including concession
- Advice on municipal law of all 16 Laender
- Local rate law and law on fees for development
- Procurement & Public Private Partnership
- Structuring and execution of national and European procurement procedures
- Support of public employers and bidders in tenders for construction projects and services as well as concessions (pursuant to GWB, VgV, VOB/A and budget law)
- Support of public employers and bidders with regard to awards in the sectors energy (gas, heat, electricity), water and transportation services (pursuant to SektVO)
- Advice on the draft of models without procurement (for example inhouse-procurement, horizontal cooperation of public employers, amendment of existing contracts) and in competitive tendering procedures (as architectural competitions) outside procurement law
- Preparation of PPP and financing models in traffic and for municipal buildings (as for example day cares, schools, fire stations, courts, swimming pools, multipurpose halls), support in investor selection processes
- Representation of employers and bidders in review of procurement procedures
- Grants & subsidies
- Support in the preparation of applications for subsidies
- Advice on the compliance of terms and requirements with regard to investment grants
- Conseil en dispositions pertinentes et obligations au cas de subventions à l’investissement
- Legal protection in connection with suits of competitors (implementation and defense of respective claims)
- European law and public international law
- European environmental and technology law
- European subsidy law
- Application of EU regulations and effects of EU regulations on the national law
- Counseling of state sector and investors in transnational projects
- Advice on contracts under public international law (as for example double taxation agreements, ECHR, WTO Agreement, UN Charta, Geneva Convention)
- Legislative procedures
- Advice on and support in coping with legislative bodies and political organizations, observation and analysis of political developments during the legislative process
- Draft of lines of argumentation and statements in case of participation in the political decision-making process
- Draft of initiative presentations within the lobbying work of industries and associations
- Litigation & representation before authorities
- Represenation before municipal, regional and federal authorities as well as before arbitration courts, German and European courts
- Seminars & training
- We offer seminars and inhouse-training regarding all topics mentioned above for public employers as well as for companies
- Recruiting, drafting of employment contracts, current employment
- Labor and employment
- Legal aspects of staff acquisition, selection of personnel and employment of personnel
- Employment contracts and connected agreements
- Limited-term contracts (limitation with and without reason, limited employment beyond the pension 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 during and outside parental leave, care period and family period, sabbaticals
- Corporate integration management
- Written warnings
- Notice of terminations, cancellation and winding-up agreements
- Certificates
- Employment of temporary workers
- Work contracts, service contracts, avoidance of bogus self-employment
- Supply of temporary workers
- Management contracts
- Transactions, restructuring & reorganization
- Due diligence concerning labor law
- Negotiation and draft of transfers or amendments of enterprises
- Draft of new business structures
- Adjustment and draft of working conditions and payment structures
- Lay-offs (reconciliation of interest, social plans, mass dismissals, dismissal protection suits)
- 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 formation of a works council)
- Formation 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 of the constructive cooperation: exclusion of individual works council members or dissolution of the works council for gross breach of duties; termination of members of the works council
- Advice a
- Negotiation and draft of company agreements and (internal) 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 committees
- Representation and support of the employer in other disputes with the works council outside and in court
- Advice of the employer regarding the handling of the representation of severely disabled 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 service contract and conduct of trials regarding termination and compensation
- Draft of agreements regarding prohibition of competition and post-contractual restraint; support in procedures particularly within injunctions referring to prohibition of competition
- Organ liability, 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 security in case of posting or parallel work in several individual countries
- Representation in all individual and collective disputes in labor courts (labor
- Support and representation of the employer in the conciliation committee
- International labor law
- Draft of cross-border staff assignment (labor law, social security law and law of residence permits, 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 draft of companies
- Company agreements and shareholders agreements
- Amendment of the articles of association, capital measures
- Draft of the organization structure and advice in corporate governance
- Disputes within the company
- Organization of and support in shareholders’ meetings and general meetings, procedures because of deficiencies in resolutions
- Liquidation of companies
- Advising of start-up companies
- Corporate housekeeping
- Restructuring & reorganization
- Change of legal form
- Mergers
- Divisions, particularly spin-off of parts of a company
- Creation of holding structures
- Corporate agreements and other legal relationships in groups
- Restructuring & insolvency
- Counseling how to manage insolvencies
- Creation of and support in restructuring concepts
- Preparation and support of insolvency plan procedures
- Counseling of creditors, managements and shareholders
- Insolvency administration
- Company succession
- Adjustment of company agreements with regard to succession planning
- Restructuring of companies and group of companies with regard to succession planning
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Draft and preparation of the prospectus of investment funds
- Venture capital and private equity financings
- Counseling in connection with public offering
- Support of purchasers and sellers to the acquisition of companies including due diligence and disputes following mergers & acquisitions
- Corporate governance & compliance
- Compliance guidelines and operational instructions
- Compliance management systems
- Organization of internal company structures
- Allocation of business
- Business organization
- Representation of companies and managers concerning management and board member liability
- (International) commerce
- General terms and conditions
- Confidentiality agreements
- Commercial transaction
- Law of commercial agents
- Freight and forwarding law
- International commercial law
- Sales law
- Foreign trade legislation, export control & embargos
- Distribution cartel law
- Representation in dealing with the Federal antitrust authorities and the European Commission
- Application for exemption from prohibition of competition
- Application for exemption from prohibition of competition
- 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
- Labor law
- Residence law
- Trainings
- Draft of General transport conditions and general inquiries regarding flight handling
- Enforcement/defense of claims against third parties
- Data protection law
- Employee data protection
- Draft and implementation of technical and organizational measures pursuant to the Federal Data Protection Act
- Company organization 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
- Draft of commercial tenancy and leasing agreements
- Draft of sale and rent-back/lease-back agreements
- Support in contract negotiations, termination and questions regarding current leasing
- Litigation, arbitration and ADR
- Representation in all local, district and higher regional courts in civil procedures
- Arbitration proceedings
- Alternative dispute resolution proceedings, for example mediation
- Competence
- Distribution cartel law
