Mergers & acquisitions

• Conversions of enterprises: mergers, transformations, company divisions, also with cross-border implications, including tax related consequences
• Initiation of transaction: preliminary contract, letter of intent, confidentiality undertaking, exclusivity agreement
• Due diligence: examination of the target company from a legal point of view, production of a due diligence report for potential buyer or seller
• Drafting, negotiating and execution of purchase contract (share deal or asset deal)
• Corporate acquisition in insolvency situation („distressed M&A“)
• Corporate acquisition with cross-border implications: advising foreign companies in the purchase / sale of a German company, advising German companies in the sale or purchase of a company abroad
• Advising and representing venture capital / private equity companies in acquisition and exit
• Takeover offers, squeeze-outs, representation in actions for annulment of corporate decisions and ‘Spruchverfahren’
• Merger control: filing of proposed concentrations with the Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission, coordination of multiple jurisdiction filings