Find Lawyers in Frankfurt/Main, Germany for Corporate Law
Practice Area Overview
For quite some time now, a lawyer advising on corporate law in the German market is required to have a thorough knowledge of private equity and venture capital transactions, meaning cross-border acquisitions, management buy-outs, investors’ participation, and shareholders’ exit strategies and due diligence reporting. In contrast, stock corporations will demand a more capital market-oriented experience, so that the advisor shall be in a position to assist with public takeovers, squeeze-outs, and delisting. Another steadily growing important field of corporate law covers corporate governance and compliance analysis, which means helping management and supervisory boards to avoid legal infringements and to comply with reporting obligations and insider-dealing regulations.
In most law firms, it is the corporate lawyer who is a company’s contact person. Consequently, it is the corporate lawyer’s task to build a team of experts covering the respective fields of law just like tax, real estate, labor, insolvency, or litigation, always having in mind to suit the client’s business needs by delivering cost-efficient, innovative, and effective solutions.
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Dr. Jan Bauer is head of Skadden’s private equity practice in Germany and leads the firm’s German offices. He focuses on advising private equity and corporate clients on complex cross-border M&A transactions, including private and public deals as well as joint ventures. He also advises on corporate governance matters, corporate restructurings and capital markets-related issues.
Dr. Markus Bauer advises both German and international clients in connection with national and cross-border corporate acquisitions, the formation and administration of joint ventures, private equity transactions and the structuring and restructuring of corporations and corporate groups. A further focus of his work is on advising management boards, managing directors and supervisory boards of predominantly medium-sized companies on their respective duties and the development of compliance prog...
Dr. Annette Bödeker is partner in the Frankfurt office of Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner. She is a renowned expert for corporate and M&A. She joined from Arnold & Porter where she has been responsible for the Corporate and M&A business at Arnold & Porter’s sole German office. She started her career with Hengeler Mueller, moving on to Linklaters where she was made partner practising in the Corporate/M&A group for a number of years. Dr. Bödeker h...
Dr. Christoph Börskens is a lawyer, notary and partner in the Frankfurt office of Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner mbB Rechtsanwälte. He advises on all areas of Real Estate and Corporate law but focuses on his work as notary. Prior to joining Friedrich Graf von Westphalen, he worked at international law firms Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Paul Hastings and Allen & Overy and was a partner in a Frankfurt boutique law firm specialised on notary work. He studied law and...
Dr. Georg Greitemann is a partner at POELLATH in Frankfurt. He advises on M&A-related and venture capital-related transactions, internal restructuring and ongoing corporate law and corporate litigation matters. His clients include companies, company founders, shareholders and their families, as well as managing directors and supervisory board members. Approximately half of his work is cross-border. He is listed in domestic and international ranking guides for his expertise in private equi...
Dr. Matthias Horbach is head of Skadden’s German M&A practice, advising on complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, inbound and outbound investments, corporate finance, and various other corporate transactions. Mr. Horbach’s M&A work includes advising a broad range of clients, including industrial companies, private equity investment firms and investment banks, on acquisitions, dispositions, cross-border mergers, joint ventures and public takeover transactions. In th...
Dr. Stephan Hutter focuses on international capital markets transactions, cross-border corporate matters and M&A transactions as well as corporate governance and compliance matters. Dr. Hutter has a particularly broad range of experience in initial public offerings, capital increases and high-yield debt financings involving international securities offerings of German, Austrian and Swiss companies, including dual listings and private placements of shares and debt securities in the United ...
Since 2006, Dr. Michael Kühn has been advising and assisting family-owned companies and affluent individuals in all aspects of succession and asset protection. He specialises in accessions, inheritance and inheritance tax law as well as in the associated areas of foundation, corporate and family law. His work also involves developing tax efficient wills and transfer contracts as well as providing legal guidance in the execution of marriage contracts. In the context of preparing larger an...
As a notary and lawyer Bernhard Naujack advises German and international clients, above all small to medium-sized family-run companies. His forte is the development of solutions in the field of company and property law, particularly when it comes to solving conflicts and undertaking transactions. He also advises clients on matters involving inheritance law, drawing up last wills and testaments, handling estates subject to inheritance, designing prenuptial agreements, partnership contracts and...
Kay-Uwe Neumann specializes in representing and advising foreign and domestic companies, particularly listed German stock corporations, in corporate and commercial law matters and on group law. He advises clients on public takeovers and subsequent structural and integration measures under stock corporation law, including the implementation of (merger law) squeeze-out procedures, the conclusion of control and profit transfer procedures and restructuring. This advice also includes litigation re...
Lukas Greilich focuses his practice on advising issuers, shareholders and underwriters on international equity capital markets transactions, including on equity-linked issuances, as well as general securities-related matters. Mr. Greilich has significant experience in capital markets transactions, representing issuers, shareholders and underwriters in connection with initial public offerings, capital increases, rights offerings, block trades, and offerings of convertible and hybrid capital in...
Alexander Hoeffler represents corporate clients and private equity firms in connection with a wide range of M&A transactions. Mr. Hoeffler has experience in counseling domestic and international clients on both the buy-side and sell-side. His practice also covers general corporate, restructuring and foreign investment control matters.
Dr. Sarah Johnen focuses her practice on advising domestic and international management and supervisory boards in connection with internal cross-border investigations and complex corporate governance, enforcement and compliance matters. Dr. Johnen has represented clients and conducted investigations in a variety of industries, such as automotive, construction, logistics and natural resources. She has broad experience defending government inquiries and conducting internal investigations in fra...
Lucia Patrizzi advises in the areas of commercial law, real estate law and litigation, also in English, Italian and French. In the field of commercial tenancy law, her main areas of expertise are the drafting and review of commercial lease contracts, legal advice on the conclusion of lease contracts, amendments and the settlement of lease contracts, disputes in ongoing lease contracts (maintenance, reduction of rent, rent adjustment and review of utility bills) as well as litigation in commer...
Dr. Benjamin Rothmund assists family firms and wealthy private individuals offering them advice on asset and succession planning. Apart from inheritance and family law, he focuses in particular on foundation law as well as inheritance and gift tax law. Benjamin Rothmund possesses special expertise in the field of family foundations set up abroad as well as Anglo-American trusts. Another legal specialty of Benjamin Rothmund is company law. He has, in the past, advised medium-sized companies in...
Dr. Maximilian Schroeter focuses his practice on German business and corporate law, domestic and cross-border private equity and M&A transactions, general corporate matters and restructurings. Dr. Schroeter represents private equity funds, strategic investors, and domestic and international corporate clients in leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, management incentive plans, debt and equity restructurings, and distressed investments, among other engagements.
Dr. Jermaine Washington represents corporate clients and private equity firms in connection with a wide range of M&A transactions, including inbound and outbound investments and other transactions. He also advises on global foreign investment control review processes and filings in the context of corporate transactions.
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