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Labour and Employment Contract

• Employment contracts for directors, managing directors and other employees

• Cancellation of labour/employment contracts

• Assistance with restructuring (formation, purchasing and selling of companies, changes of status) within the company for employment law purposes

• Dismissals, company closure, etc.

• Dismissal protection proceedings, etc., provisional legal protection

Real Estate

• Purchase, development, implementation and marketing of real estate projects

• Contracts for the purchase of real estate

• Contracts with architects, planners, workmen

• General contractor and subcontractor contracts

• Property developer contracts

• Closed property funds

• Attendant legal advisory service (legal and economic solutions: contracts with the parties involved in the building process; all building construction contracts, etc.; assertion of warranty claims)

• Lease agreements

• Lease concepts

• Facility management

European and International Trade

• Development of initial schemes and solutions

• Negotiations with municipal controllership, tax authorities and other institutions

• Assistance with voting in the responsible committees

• Support for both client and contractor at all stages of a procurement process including the leading of review procedures

• Preparation of the appropriate procedural steps

• Inspection and drafting of tender documents

• Inspection of service descriptions and plans from the legal point of view

Company Law / Corporate

• Formation of business partnerships and corporate enterprises

• Drafting and creation of structures for business partnerships (limited partnerships, general partnerships, non-trading partnerships) and corporate enterprises (limited companies, incorporated companies, Ltd.) that comply with company law

• Restructuring, separations, divisions, mergers, spin-offs, change of legal status, other takeovers under company law, etc.

• Advice service for companies in crisis, preparation of insolvency proceedings

• Liquidation of companies

• Stock options

• Stock corporation law: Shareholders’ meeting, actions of opposition

• Joint ventures

• Corporate succession

Competition Law

• European Commission merger application and notification procedures

• Anti-trust suits before the German civil courts and the European Commission

• Applications for exemptions

Contracting / Public Procurement

• Development of initial models and solutions

• Conducting of the necessary negotiations with municipal controllership, tax authorities and other institutions

• Assistance with voting in the responsible committees

• Support for both client and contractor at all stages of a procurement process including the leading of review procedures

• Inspection of service descriptions and plans from the legal point of view

Lawsuits, Arbitration Proceedings / Dispute Resolution

• Proceedings for domestic and foreign clients before civil courts and industrial and administrative tribunals

• Advice to clients in the early stages in order to avoid the necessity for litigation

• Out-of-court settlement of disputes

• Arbitration proceedings

• Legal protection in all the areas of law named above (interim injunctions, arrest, etc.)

• Assistance for German clients in proceedings before foreign courts in cooperation with foreign colleagues

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Purchase and sale of corporate shares and assets

• Venture capital investments

• Restructuring within the context of planned changes in the group, management buy-out, management buy-in

• Legal due diligence

• Structuring of transactions

Contracts 

• Drawing of contracts

• Conducting of or assistance with contract negotiations

• Assertion of contractual and legal claims (e.g. for fulfilment or under warranty)

• Checking of contracts and contractual clauses

• Drawing up, revision and updating of General Terms and Conditions

• Optimisation of contracts

Administrative Law 

• Public buildings

• Public businesses

• Enviroment

• Energy

• Industrial

Funding, Estate Aid and Grant Law

• Approaches to and discussions with funding authorities

• Preparation and pushing through of applications for funding and estate aid

• Drafting and conclusion of funding contracts

• Estate aid control

• Support both in and out of court when estate aid is reclaimed

• Support and advice in disputes with audit offices