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YOUR CHALLENGES

Advising private and municipal companies as well as their executive bodies and shareholders on complex corporate law issues and representing them in (legal) disputes are among the core services of our law firm. We always focus on the specific individual needs and entrepreneurial goals of our clients, which we work with to achieve success.

As an entrepreneur, shareholder, managing director, board member or supervisory board member of a medium-sized or municipal company, a start-up, investor or group company, you come into contact with corporate law issues on an almost daily basis, including in the context of

the formation, company name, financing and structuring of your company or your shareholdings and businesses
the organisation and implementation of difficult decisions at meetings
the purchase or sale of companies/company units
the defence or assertion of claims for damages/liability of board members, supervisory board members and managing directors
reorganisation or restructuring (including (cross-border) mergers, demergers, etc.)
the regulation of your company succession
corporate law disputes

Due to the variety of issues and options, which usually have a long-term and immediate impact on your company, as well as the often short-term decisions required, you need an experienced, reliable advisor at your side who is ideally familiar with your company or your industry and who can offer you well-founded solutions so that you can once again fully utilise your resources to pursue the actual purpose of the company and thus the economic success of the company.

OUR SOLUTIONS

SNP advises you as a shareholder and company of all types and sizes in all phases of your business development. We provide you with legally sound and pragmatic answers to questions of corporate law. We always consider their long-term effects.

For many of our long-standing clients, we provide ongoing corporate law advice (‘corporate housekeeping’), which also includes corporate governance tailored to the company, taking into account, for example, whether it is a start-up in the financing phase in which a venture capital fund wants to invest or whether it is a family business in which different family branches and generations work together.

Of course, we also represent you when disputes arise, for example in corporate law disputes, including challenges to shareholder resolutions and appraisal proceedings. We protect your interests both in ordinary courts and in arbitration proceedings.

Our experience and expertise is particularly valued by medium-sized companies, most of whom we have been providing legal advice to on a long-term basis, in some cases for decades. They place particular value on our ability to convey even complex legal issues in a clear and comprehensible manner, to make concrete recommendations for action and to take into account special economic features. We are particularly familiar with the special features of family-run companies and the interaction of family and inheritance law with company law or tax law and can always provide you with comprehensive advice. Our focus is always on long-term, trusting cooperation with you – especially in day-to-day business.

An experienced partner is your personal point of contact and will, if necessary, coordinate a powerful team from other consultancy areas of our law firm, including tax consultancy.

You are an expert in your business, and you should not be satisfied with anything less when it comes to legal advice.

We act for you in a solution-orientated and efficient manner. We always keep an eye on the context of the specific situation in order to achieve viable and sustainable results for you. Your satisfaction with our advice is our goal and our aspiration.

OUR SERVICES

Partnership, limited liability company and stock corporation law, association law including non-profit law
Law of shareholders, executive bodies and members of executive bodies (managing directors, management board, supervisory board) and their liability, including disputes between executive bodies
M&A (including management buy-outs and buy-ins), private equity
Legal preparation and support for shareholders’ meetings and general meetings (including those of listed stock corporations), e.g. amendments to articles of association or appointment and dismissal of corporate bodies
Structuring of corporate groups/joint ventures
Financing and capital measures (e.g. start-ups, investment agreements, venture capital)
(Cross-border) reorganisations such as changes of legal form, demergers or mergers
Succession planning
Advice on the formation and liquidation of companies
Support in restructuring companies to avert or end corporate crises
Corporate governance and compliance
Employee participation programmes
Corporate agreements, in particular profit and loss transfer and domination agreements
Shareholder disputes including arbitration and release proceedings before the ordinary courts or in arbitration proceedings
Disputes with company bodies arising from the board relationship (in particular claims for damages against board members)
Advice on initial public offerings and other ‘going public’ strategies
Delisting and squeeze-outs