Legal advice

Criminal tax law

• Support in preliminary proceedings (tax investigation)
• Representation before the Office for the imposition of fines and criminal proceedings
• representation before the criminal court
• Self-disclosure

Corporate and commercial law

• Choice of legal form and foundation of companies of all corporate forms (e.g. BGB company, OHG, GmbH & Co. KG, GmbH, AG, foundations, associations, etc.)
• Drafting of articles of association and statutes
• Preparation and execution of shareholders’ meetings including the taking of minutes
• Advice to shareholders, managing directors and other bodies, e.g. on liability issues
• Support for foreign companies
• Restructuring of companies
• Analysis of legal and contractual relationships between related company transformations, e.g. splitting of a company, merger of companies
• Corporate transactions, e.g. acquisition or sale of shares in corporations and partnerships (“share deal”) and company purchases and sales (“asset deal”)
• Inter-company agreements, e.g. profit transfer agreements, apportionment agreements
• Extrajudicial and judicial conflict resolution in shareholder disputes
• Process management

Debt recovery

• Design and sending of reminders
• Implementation of a judicial dunning procedure
• Litigation in civil proceedings
• Execution of the execution

Tenancy law

• Preparation of rental and lease agreements
• Termination of rental and lease agreements
• Formulation of rent increase letters
• Recovery of rent receivables
• Preparation of service charge settlements

General civil law

• Review and development of general terms and conditions
• Drafting and review of rental contracts, leasing contracts, purchase contracts, service contracts, work contracts, etc.
• Protection of the tangible and intangible properties of a company
• Securing of liabilities (e.g. sureties, guarantee bond, retention of title)
• Enforcement of legal claims (e.g. compensation for damages)
• De-escalation and out-of-court conciliation

Tax procedure law

• Objections to the tax authorities
• Actions before the tax courts
• Appeals before the Federal Fiscal Court
• Provisional legal protection (suspension of the execution of decisions challenged on appeal)

Law of Succession

BEFORE the inheritance

• Advice and preparation with regard to powers of attorney, care directives and living wills
• Last Will of disabled persons
• Preparation and review of Last Wills
• Anticipated succession
  (lifetime gift, transfer of assets)
• Advice regarding inheritance tax
• Regulation of company succession
• Digital Legacy

AFTER the inheritance

• First steps after a death
• Advice on the disclaimer of an inheritance
• Assistance with the opening of Last Wills, testamentary proceedings
• Applying for a certificate of inheritance, accompanying inheritance proceedings
• Disputes of the community of heirs
• Bequests/ Enforcement of bequests
• Compensation for care services after death
• Legal proceedings under inheritance law – right to a compulsory portion, claims to a compulsory portion
• Execution of Last Wills, challenge of Last Wills, inheritance disputes

• Duty to notify inheritances and gifts (duty to notify an acquisition due to death or a gift § 30 ErbStG)

Labour Law

• Drafting and review of service and employment contracts
• Preparation of warnings
• Termination of employment relationships, e.g. ordinary or extraordinary terminations, termination agreements
• Design of testimonies
• Representation before the labour courts
• Dealing with the works council (duties of approval and information)
• Social security law