Our Practice Goups
Corporate Law
DFA advises companies and shareholders on all matters relating to corporate law represents a major focus of our activities an. We offer our clients guidance in choosing appropriate legal form for their company and prepare the required legal documentation (articles of association, shareholders agreements, bylaws, etc.).
Moreover, we assist clients in amending shareholders agreements, for example upon entry of a new shareholder or as a result of changes of corporate structures.
Our advisers are experienced in executing mergers and acquisitions transactions as well as restructuring companies or groups of companies.
We also provide to our clients ongoing corporate law-related advice and corporate housekeeping.
When shareholders wish to divest their company stakes, we develop tailor-made solutions for shareholder succession and share sales. Our lawyers advise management and supervisory board members on all liability-related issues. We also assist listed companies in preparing and executing their annual general meetings, in part by simulating typical critical situations that may arise on such occasions.
Examples of our corporate law services include:
• Providing legal advice on company incorporation (choosing the best legal form)
• Drafting contracts (shareholders agreements, pool agreements, management rules, etc.)
• Rendering legal counsel on the entry or departure of shareholders
• Joint ventures
• Restructuring (for example: mergers, demergers / spin-offs, company legal form changes)
• Restructuring entire group companies
• Share capital increases or decreases
• Provisions for corporate successions
• Preparing and executing annual general meetings of stock corporations
• Corporate governance
• Compliance
• Corporate housekeeping
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Squeeze-out of miniority shareholders of Erfurt-based Ibykus AG
Our Corporate law team team has advised the Squeeze-out of Erfurt based Ibykus AG für Informationstechnologie‘s minority shareholders by way of merging Ibykus into Isthmos Holding AG (Verschmelzungsrechtlicher Squeeze-our). Our team has acted as Counsel to the majority shareholder.
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Convertible loan by Isthmos Holding AG
Dr Christian Franz has advised the Issuance of convertible loan by Isthmos Holding AG
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A few case examples for our practice from the last 20+ years with hands on management by the partners of DFA
German - French fiduciary transfer
DFA’s Christian Franz and Mélanie Clerc advise French Group in the recognition in Germany of the fiduciary transfer (fiducie) under French law of shares in the Group’s German GmbH subsidiary as collateral of the refinancing of the client group, and in the perfection of the transfer with regard to German transfer of title rules.
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