Our business-oriented, supra-regional and international law firm provides counsel and legal services, with particular emphasis on business and commerce and on fiscal and organizational matters.Our multidisciplinary approach is designed to create added value for our clients. At the same time we strive to achieve pragmatic solutions. We count government agencies, foundations, communities and private individuals among our clients.
Settlement advice
- Ownership strategy: individual concept based on market analysis
- Country of origin: goal-oriented preparation
- Country of destination: successive start
- Companies: suitable legal structure
- Location selection: Business Place vs. Tax Location
- Implementation: execution of concept or deliberate modification
No goal: Self-opiononatedness
Expatriates-Management
- Secondment: classic posting
- Delegation: long-term posting
- Deployment: temporary Transfer
- Transfer: permanent deployment
- Agreement: Status must be lived as agreed
- Warranty: Personnel support
Honest advisor courage: Disagree with the client
Separation-Management
- Separation reasons: Knowledge enables assertion
- Behaviour: Mild in manor, tough where it matters
- Mentality: Open to consensus
- Negotiation: Prioritise between must have or nice to have
- The future: is more important than the successful separation
- The world is small: paths may cross again
Procedure: Instruction – Analysis – Advice – Decision– Execution
Business Partner-Screening
- Business Partner: known or not
- Origins: Not all cultures are the same
- Signs: negotiation conduct of business partner
- Criteria: business ethics of the business partner
- Conclusions: previous behaviour infers future behaviour
- Risks: Settlment, corruption and reputation risks
Success: Seize opportunities, avoid or reduce risks
Strategy advise on real estate
- Location: multi-attribute > Makrolocation, Mikrolocation …
- Building readiness: Building land, a commodity with an expiration date
- Utilisation: full occupancy as value driver
- Return: no cluster risks
- Resale properties: always keep an eye on exiting
Quick advice: Doesn't have to cost the world
Contract management
- Contract negotiations: Fairness is required
- Contract planning: manage as a project
- Contract drafting: decision to draft contract or let other party draft it
- Contract controlling: target / actual comparison
- Settlement: monitor price, quality and deadlines
- Administration: timely renegotiation of continuing obligations
Advice: Can have a major effect
Strategy advice on assertion and defense
- Case: Meticulous care in documenting
- Analysis: prospects of winning and risks as well as cost-benefit ratio
- Alternatives: dispute settlement is highest priority
- Lawsuit: not without strategy or tactics
- Capacity for consensus: a settlement is often preferable to a court decision
- Focus: orientation on the future is preferable to an ongoing dispute
Good advice: Get it, even if you think you don't need it
Directorate Advice
- Director selection: the right person at the right time
- Director ethics: practising responsibility sets an example and reduces risks
- Strategic leadership: strategy goals + SWOT-analysis
- Financial leadership: sufficient equity + risk appropriate refinancing
- Personnel leadership: recruiting competent employees with social skills
- Crises: safeguard liquidity + get situation under control
Preemption: The art of proactively avoiding problems
Company Succession
- Building private assets: necessary + relaxed
- Timing: the sooner the better
- Concept: realistic
- Senior: let go and hands-off approach
- Successor: take over when competent + experienced as a leader
- Price + Refinancing: orientation on sustainability and security
Acceptance: Nothing is more constant than change
Wealth succession of private individuals
- Insurances: Occupational pensions, Pillars 3a + 3b, Life insurance
- Before death: gift / inheritance advance / foundation / trust
- Prior agreement: succession agreement with future heirs / renunciation
- After death: Testament / succession agreement
- Influencing the herafter: requirements, conditions and wishes
- Post-Care: Executor / division of the estate
Riskmanagement: Leave nothing to chance