FAMILY & WEALTH MANAGEMENT
We advise families and their businesses, private individuals, private foundations, family offices and their corporate bodies in all matters relating to family, corporate, foundation and insolvency law. We also assist in the purchase or sale of family-owned companies or parts of companies, real estate and other assets.
Complex structures inevitably bring about challenges. Within the framework of crisis management and conflict resolution, we offer mediation as an all-party procedure in private as well as professional matters. Especially in families and family businesses, a quick as well as result-oriented conflict resolution is often crucial. Forward-looking, mediation can be used to work out a constructive approach to conflict and enables self-determined solutions.
We work closely with experts in personal and asset protection and can thus provide our clients with comprehensive support in matters of private as well as corporate security with our partners.
Service Portfolio
Family & Private Matters
Advice in connection with the conclusion of marriage and partnership agreements and marriage pacts
Citizenship law
Divorces
Health care power of attorneys and patient's living will
Advice on inheritance law as well as preparation and examination of testaments, codicils and gifts on death
Family Businesses
Formation and re/structuring of family businesses and holding structures
Ongoing advice on corporate law, in particular on capital maintenance regulations, equity substitution and prohibited return of capital contributions
Articles of association, statutes and syndicate agreements and rules of procedure
Preparation, attendance of and representation at (electronic) general and shareholders' meetings
Provision of e-meeting rooms for shareholders' meetings
Advice on family business governance issues
Strategic advice in particular in connection with family constitutions and succession arrangements
Conflict mediation in family and economic/business matters
Representation in shareholder conflicts
Financing of Family Businesses
Capital increases, shareholder loans, loan agreements
Subsidies
Alternative forms of corporate financing (silent partnerships, profit participation rights, hybrid/mezzanine capital etc)
Operating lease and operating transfer agreements
Private Foundations & Family Offices
Formation and re/structuring of private foundations as well as family offices
Advice to founders, beneficiaries and foundation bodies
Assumption of foundation board functions
Conflict management
Operating Premises Transactions &
Reorganisations
Structuring of acquisitions/sales of companies or parts of companies (also from insolvency)
Preparation, review and negotiation of all transaction documents (purchase agreement, corporate and company law documents etc)
Preparation and support of the signing and closing of corporate transactions
Structuring and implementation of reorganization measures (national and cross-border mergers, demergers, contributions, conversions, changes of legal form etc)
Real Estate
Drafting, reviewing and negotiating real estate purchase and gift, financing, rental, lease, easement and condominium agreements
Real estate transactions for foreigners
Land registry processing
Advice in matters of condominium law
Advice in connection with renewable energy communities and subsidies
Asset Structuring,
Asset & Personal Protection
Asset structuring and succession planning
Acquisition, sale, donation and transfer of assets
Advice in connection with personal and asset protection
Conflict Management in
Private Matters
Identification of and assistance in resolving intra-family conflicts
Divorce mediation
Mediation in inheritance matters and succession planning
Crisis Management in
Business Matters
Identification of and support in the resolution of internal conflicts
Stakeholder management, especially of external consultants (eg PR agencies)
Development of crisis management plans and communication strategies
Information preparation for decision makers
Mediation within companies and in connection with business relationships
De-escalation mechanism
(Out-of-court) dispute resolution
Restructuring & Turnaround
Support in the legal implementation of restructuring concepts and expert opinions
Formation of restructuring companies
Restructuring and refinancing agreements, standstill agreements, restructuring loan or bridge financing agreements etc
Advising corporate bodies in matters of reorganization law, in particular in connection with liability risks and annulment issues
Insolvency & Liquidation
Advice on asset protection and realization of collaterals as well as liability issues under insolvency law
Advice prior to and in connection with filing for insolvency
Representation of companies in crisis during ongoing reorganization and insolvency proceedings
Liquidation of companies