Corporate and Shareholder Disputes

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

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

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

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.

• 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