Re­struc­tur­ing & Busi­ness Ac­qui­si­tion

Our high­ly qual­i­fied team of ex­perts con­sults:

• medi­um-sized com­pa­nies and groups of com­pa­nies,
• fam­i­ly-owned busi­ness­es,
• in­vestors,
• start-ups and
• pub­lic com­pa­nies

in all ar­eas of en­tre­pre­neur­ial re­struc­tur­ing or na­tion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al com­pa­ny ac­qui­si­tions on the top­ics of:

• trans­for­ma­tions/ merg­ers, de­merg­ers, changes of form,
• trans­fers of in­di­vid­ual as­sets,
• out­ward di­rect in­vest­ments and for­eign di­rect in­vest­ments,
• es­tab­lish­ment of joint ven­tures,
• ac­qui­si­tion and sale of com­pa­nies,
• fi­nan­cial re­cov­ery,
• fi­nanc­ing

as well as on tax law top­ics and prob­lems such as:

• tax-op­ti­mized con­sult­ing,
• choice and cor­rec­tion of le­gal form,
• op­ti­miza­tion of the Group tax rate,
• em­ploy­ee stock op­tion plans,
• tax due dili­gence for buy­er or sell­er,
• ad­vice on pur­chase agree­ments (tax clause),
• real es­tate trans­fer tax op­ti­miza­tion and
• co­or­di­na­tion with the tax au­thor­i­ties with­in the frame­work of bind­ing in­for­ma­tion.

Of course, our in­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary con­sult­ing ap­proach in­volves at an ear­ly stage:

• oth­er spe­cial­ist ar­eas of tax law (sales tax, cus­toms, in­her­i­tance and gift tax, trans­fer prices),
• oth­er pro­fes­sion­al groups (lawyers, au­di­tors, con­sul­tants) and
• oth­er prac­tice groups (e.g. cor­po­rate law, labour law, com­mer­cial bal­ance sheet law, val­u­a­tion)

in pro­fes­sion­al di­a­logue.