Corporate and Shareholder Disputes
We are a specialised team of more than 45 litigation lawyers who will advise you on complex national and international corporate disputes.
We have conducted many large-scale disputes in Germany and abroad and before public courts and arbitration tribunals. As a result, we have wide-ranging experience in corporate and finance conflicts.
Some of our lawyers have a common-law background. This enables us to tailor our team to each case, especially disputes involving the USA and the United Kingdom.
Our services
Advice in the build-up to a dispute
Corporate litigation
We work at the interface between corporate and litigation law and represent you especially in disputes with third parties or in disputes between your company and its shareholders or among shareholders.
This includes:
- Post-M&A disputes
- Complex disputes directly in the C-level remit
- Conflicts between shareholders involving expulsions of shareholders, redemptions of shares or defective resolutions, for example
- Disputes involving groups of companies
- Pre-insolvency disputes
Liability disputes
All entrepreneurial decisions obviously come with a certain degree of risk. If a decision proves to have been wrong and this results in damage to the company, we will advise you on the following issues:
- Liability of board members and D&O insurance
- Third-party liability and liability insurance
- Internal settlement claims
Disputes involving traded shares and capital markets
Capital markets liability is typically one of the key issues for listed companies . We represent you particularly in the case of:
- disputes and proceedings relating to stock corporation law, e.g. special audits, judicial review in appraisal processes
- disputes involving capital markets, particularly due to erroneous ad hoc publicity
Finance litigation
Commercial banks and financial services providers are experiencing rapidly changing times. In an environment that is already commercially challenging, they are also confronted with increasing regulatory pressure at national and international level. This development frequently results in complex, large-scale disputes.
A deep understanding of the banking and finance sectors and their products is critical to resolving such disputes. Only with this understanding is it possible to successfully conduct such disputes, e.g. in connection with (often complex) derivative transactions or loan and collateral security agreements. Based on our many years of litigation experience before German and foreign courts, we have the necessary expertise to successfully represent our clients’ interests in court.
Services
- Conflicts between companies, shareholders and corporate bodies
- Bringing D&O liability claims against directors or members of governing bodies and defending them against such claims
- Disputes involving capital markets and stock corporation law issues
- Disputes involving groups of companies or erroneous resolutions
- Post-M&A disputes
- Disputes regarding loans and collateral security
- Disputes associated with derivative transactions and collateral security
Selected projects
- Automotive company
Advising and representing the company in a post-M&A dispute following the acquisition of a shareholding - Clemens Tönnies
Advising and representing the meat producer in a dispute with a co-shareholder before the state courts and arbitration tribunal - Company in the food sector
Advising and representing on a liability case against a former tax consultant due to incorrect tax treatment of dividend payments - Family office
Enforcing liability claims against (former) members of officers of the company - Investor group
Advising and representing the US investor group in an extensive dispute with a co-shareholder and director - Majority shareholder
Advising and representing the majority shareholder of a company in the food sector in an inheritance and company law dispute regarding the transfer of shares before an arbitration tribunal - Mid-cap company
Enforcement and defense of claims in the context of a post-M&A dispute - Municipal utility
Representing the company in disputes involving complex structured finance derivatives, including filing liability claims against (former) board members and advisors - Stock corporation
Advising and representing the German stock corporation in court proceedings involving the appointment of a special auditor and in proceedings for approval of entry of a change in the commercial register following a squeeze-out - Trading company
Advising and representing the international trading company in the expulsion of a minority shareholder following a failed international joint venture
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“Noerr’s conflict resolution team advises German and international banks on various contentious banking and finance issues. This includes cross-border work on the case, in particular where the USA and United Kingdom are involved.”
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“Noerr’s broad-based dispute resolution team also covers an impressive spectrum of bank and finance proceedings. The team (…) conducts not only individual litigation but also mass actions and is often engaged by national and international banks and financial institutions.”
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