Corporate Law
Advising on corporate law is the basis of any business related advice to companies. It is our core competence, especially comprising the following areas:
- Determination of the most suitable corporate structure and type of company
- Foundation of companies including the drafting of shareholders’ agreements and so-called joint venture agreements and participation agreements
- Corporate Housekeeping, i.e. the administration of companies (often in a group context) and the adjustment of articles of association to changing circumstances
- Structural measures such as transformations and mergers, including such within a group
- Dissolution and liquidation
- Shareholders disputes before ordinary courts and arbitration panels, rescission actions, provisional suspension of shareholders resolutions in interim proceedings
- Representation of corporate bodies and companies in corporate liability matters
- D&O matters
The lawyers of KSLEX have a broad experience in the field of corporate law.
Track Record/Experience
- Advising a German/French chemical concern on the formation of a Joint Venture in Russia for the manufacture of a product in the consumer area and rendering ongoing advice to the Joint Venture for many years
- Advising a German manufacturer of money processing systems on the formation of a Joint Venture in Russia with the Central Bank of the Russian Federation
- Advising a family-run manufacturer of stationary products on the restructuring of its group structure
- Advising a family-run logistics group on the revision of its articles of association
- Advising a logistics group on the formation of a Joint Venture with a globally leading IT-consulting group
- Advising an US-American conglomerate on the formation of a worldwide Joint Venture in the printing industry (including the entire value added chain)
- Advising a British telecommunications service provider on the formation of a Joint Venture for the development of the German market
- Advising a French pharmaceutical group on its refinancing
- Advising a German operator of a stock exchange portal on the formation of a Joint Venture for the operation of a financial information portal
- Advising a listed Scottish pharmaceutical company on its debt restructuring
- Comprehensive administration of and advising German subsidiaries of eleven British and US-American groups on corporate housekeeping matters
- Advising a Joint Venture in the printing industry on its restructuring
- Comprehensively advising a leading agricultural association on various corporate law issuses
- Comprehensively advising a group company of a large European postal service group on its participation in a leading European CEP service provider (Courier, Express, Parcel)
- Advising and representing organs of a stock corporation in liability proceedings vis-à-vis the company’s insolvency administrator (Business Judgement Rule, Reliance Defence, defence of claims under sec. 71 of the German Stock Corporation Act – ban on acquisition of own shares)
- Advising the leading dairy farmers association in Germany on settling a shareholders dispute in a milk marketing company