High formal requirements and continuous legislative and case-law developments make stock-corporation law a particularly dynamic and multi-faceted subject for consultants. Since August 2008 alone, nine new laws have fundamentally changed German stock-corporation law.

As highly specialized and experienced consultants, we help our clients find their way through the complexities of stock-corporation law: from the establishment and change of legal form into a stock corporation to assistance with general meetings, corporate actions and squeeze-outs. We advise German and international companies and provide representation to shareholders as well as management and supervisory board members.

Many of our partners are supervisory board members. Partners of our firm have co-authored the handbook "Die Aktiengesellschaft" (6. Aufl. 2010, Haufe-Verlag) [mit Link auf die Seite des Verlags]

Key areas of activity
- Legal advice to management and supervisory boards or shareholders of publicly listed and private stock corporations as part of challenges to or implementation of rescission actions and actions for declarations of nullity;
- Advice on corporate governance issues;
- Advice on the preparation and implementation of general meetings;
- Support in corporate actions: initial public offerings, delistings, off-exchange capital increases;
- Design of compensation plans and employment contracts for management board members;
- Advice to management and supervisory board members as well as their D&O insurers with respect to personal liability issues