What we offer

Kaufmann Lutz advises and assists entrepreneurs, company shareholders and executive bodies on all matters of corporate law in preserving and enforcing their rights and in performance of their respective duties. The trademark of our legal services is the provision of highly committed, individual and personalized advice to every client. The legal advice we offer is always backed by appropriate consideration of strategic, commercial and taxation aspects. In relation to disputes between shareholders especially, decades of experience in and out of court enable us to implement the right tactics for our clients.

Advice on corporate law

• Company founding, including the appropriate choice of legal form
• Drafting corporate agreements
• Appointment and removal of senior managers and board directors
• Shareholders‘ meetings, AGMs, supervisory and advisory board meetings
• Capital measures, replacement and retirement of shareholders
• Equity acquisition and sale, taking into account tax aspects
• Contract-drafting for corporate succession and inheritance in relation to equity holdings, taking into account inheritance and gift tax law
• Company crisis management, insolvency

Shareholder disputes and litigation

• Shareholder disputes, conflicts between companies and their executive bodies
• Negotiation and drafting of settlements, particularly in relation to shareholder disputes within family companies
• Representation of shareholders at disputatious shareholders‘ meetings and AGMs and chairing of such meetings
• Assertion, preservation and defence of rights of information and control
• Litigation, focused on disputes relating to shareholders‘ resolutions and interim injunctions
• Arbitration