We have extensive experience structuring and implementing corporate mergers and takeovers of publicly traded companies. In this area we advise bidders as well as target companies covering not only issues of corporate law and capital market law, but also, and in particular, financing issues and tax law aspects.
Focus of advice
- Structuring and implementation of national and cross-border takeovers and corporate mergers of publicly traded companies
- Advice for target companies in takeover situations and on the preparation for and defense of potential takeovers
- Squeeze-out, delisting/downgrading, as well as group integration measures for the target company (e.g. intercompany agreements and mergers)
- Acquisition of shareholdings in publicly traded companies below the control threshold under takeover law (so-called PIPE transactions)
- Exemptions from legal obligation to submit mandatory offer
- Advice on issues of compliance with capital markets and takeover law in connection with the acquisition or sale of shareholdings in publicly traded companies (including intragroup transfers), in particular on insider law, notifications of voting rights, and other notification obligations under capital markets and takeover law
- Representation in misdemeanor and penalty proceedings under capital markets and takeover law
