We advise national and foreign corporations and financial service providers on all questions concerning the law governing stock corporations and capital markets law, and we support them in going public or delisting. Other current main practice areas are corporate governance, employee stock ownership plans and compliance. The following list of topics serves only as a list of examples of matters upon which we advise:
- Stock exchange listing and delisting
- Corporate governance codes of practice
- Legal assistance on the general meetings of listed stock corporations
- Advice on the issue of shares and securities
- Employee stock ownership plans
- Advice on the German Securities Trading Act (Wertpapierhandels-gesetz, insider trading, reporting obligations, director’s dealing, ad-hoc disclosure)
- Compliance
- Bonds / government financing
- Financial instruments
- Securitization
- Banking and insurance supervisory law
- Licences for banks, insurances and investment companies
- The law governing capital investment companies, including advice on the German Investment Act (Investmentgesetz) and the German Investment Tax Act (Investmentsteuergesetz)
- Venture capital and mezzanine financing
- Project financing
