Private Equity

Our advice and support services to domestic and foreign investment companies, family offices, institutional investors, founders and managers are comprehensive, goal-oriented and cover all types of private equity transactions. In addition to their professional know-how, our private equity specialists also have the necessary entrepreneurial acumen to successfully complete complex transactions quickly and pragmatically.

Our expertise in private equity includes:

• Legal and tax structuring of private equity transactions
• Auctions, (leveraged) management buy-outs
• Preparation and negotiation of purchase agreements (share deal, asset deal)
• Setting up rules governing shareholder relations (shareholders' agreements/pooling agreements)
• Management shareholdings
• Preparation of custody agreements (escrow)
• Negotiation with lenders (especially banks)
• Development of security concepts
• Sale or IPO of companies
• Fund regulation and other regulatory issues