Corporate

We are market leaders in providing advice in connection with shareholders’ meetings. We help ensure that shareholders’ meetings are prepared and held in a legally sound way. We do this by delivering strategic advice and by drawing up the invitation/agenda and Q&A list. To ensure that a shareholder’s meeting plays out in as smooth a manner as possible, we not only draft guidelines – including special guidelines for the chair – but also coach the chair and conduct trial runs. At the shareholders’ meeting itself, we provide back-office support.

Corporate governance requires not just a knowledge of company law but also an understanding of a company’s business objectives and of the interests of its shareholders, managers, and employees. We advise on all questions concerning internal company structures, corporate duties, relationships and division of responsibilities between the boards, and the drafting of rules of procedure. We leverage our knowledge and experience to help clients avoid violating their legal obligations, especially but not exclusively in the area of compliance, and thereby triggering associated liability issues.

Compliance violations can have wide-ranging consequences for companies. We develop and optimise tailored compliance programmes to eliminate legal and tax risks. In the event of breaches of duty on the part of board members and employees, we can advise extensively on the assertion of claims for damages as well as on D&O insurance matters. Clients benefit from our full-service compliance practice, which brings together the knowledge and experience of lawyers from different areas within the firm, including those working in antitrust, criminal, employment, data protection, and corporate law. 
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With our wealth of litigation experience, clients can rely on us to represent their interests in avoidance actions, shareholder compensation proceedings, corporate litigation, and D&O liability proceedings. We have proven expertise also in advising banks and financial institutions in serial lawsuits, such as in connection with the defence of claims based on faulty capital market information or on perceived compliance violations. We also assist clients in national and international disputes, working closely with specialists from our dispute resolution team and other practices, as required.
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