What we offer

We pursue a clearly defined strategy with regard to banking and capital market law. We are able to call upon many years‘ experience and extensive know-how in structuring capital market products and the issuance of prospectuses, especially in relation to closed funds. We assist and advise banks as well as providers of services for financial products and securities in all relevant legal matters. If you face claims from investors, we will represent you in court and help to coordinate your strategy. We have an extensive network of contacts with supervisory authorities, trade bodies and professional associations. Moreover, our specialist lawyers regularly write articles for legal journals and contribute to relevant commentaries. All these attributes enable us to provide you with top-class advisory services based on the very latest information and developments in the rapidly changing field of banking and capital market law.

What we do:

• Corporate financing on the capital market
• Structuring and design of various financing elements, such as securities issues, statutory company models (GmbH & Co. KG), jouissance rights, convertible bonds, dormant equity holdings, cooperative equity holdings, private placements
• Advice to closed fund providers on all relevant legal matters, including recapitalization
• Compilation of sale prospectuses (for securities and closed fund assets, also voluntary prospectuses relating to capital market placements outside of existing prospectus obligations)
• Legal assessments of prospectuses and of tax arrangements in respect of capital market products
• Banking supervisory law, advice and representation in legal dealings with supervisory authorities (BaFin, Bundesbank)
• Advice to banks and providers of financial services and securities
• Advice on compliance and law governing money-laundering
• Advice on capital investment law
• Judicial and extra-judicial defence against investor law-suits; strategic advice in relation to investor claims
• Ongoing advice to adapt to changes in legislation and new legal judgements