Providing advice about traditional corporate-law matters is part of the core expertise at Graf von Westphalen. We advise businesses and entrepreneurs, and provide representation in all aspects of corporate structuring - from selecting the "suitable" legal form and the design of the articles of incorporation to reorganizations, changes of corporate form, mergers, spin-offs and demergers.

Our clients are German and foreign businesses and entrepreneurs - family-owned businesses as well as international groups, shareholders, managing directors, management board members and supervisory board members.

Tax issues, in particular, play a key role in corporate restructurings. In cooperation with external - or, upon request, our own - tax-law experts and accountants, we help optimize the accounting and tax aspects of corporate legal structures.

Key areas of activity
- Design of customized partnership agreements and articles of incorporation for business partnerships and incorporated companies;
- Design of employment contracts for managing directors and management board members;
- Support in the preparation and implementation of partnership and general shareholder meetings;
- Advice on the transfer of shares in the context of business succession processes, management-buyouts or sales to third parties [Links zu anderen Bereichen einfügen];
- Advice on corporate actions and optimized financing structures;
- Representation before state and arbitration courts, in rescission actions or actions for declaration of nullity, in arbitration proceedings, squeeze-outs and in requests for information as well as other shareholder disputes.