In the field of administrative law, our highly specialized team offers legal consulting and support in legal processes as well as legal representation, in particular in the areas of communal law and law pertaining to communal fees as well as civil service law.

We advise and support you:

• in taxation law pertaining to water, waste water and waste management
• in privatization and renationalization processes
• in the structuring of statutes of municipalities, municipal companies and special purpose associations
• in administrative enforcement law
• in public services law, e.g. in the creation of calls for tender and legal actions of competitors.

And we are also active for you in the following fields:

• Law pertaining to towns and municipalities
• European law on state aid
• Higher education law.

You benefit from our sound experience in the field of communal law. We provide advice in a solution oriented and individual manner. Your contacts are Prof. Dr. Ulf Gundlach, Stefan Fenzel and Nicole Jochheim.

We offer comprehensive consulting services for all corporate and commercial legal matters, such as selection or change of legal form, daily business or the governing bodies, the rights and obligations of body members or those of shareholders.

We advise you for instance in the structuring of:

• shareholder agreements and subholdings
• change of partners
• business transformations, e.g. split-offs, fusions and change of legal form of companies
• company sales contracts and company succession
• shareholders’ resolutions and questions pertaining to the involvement of committees.

And we are also active for you in the following fields:

• Law related to municipal undertakings and shareholdings
• Laws governing cooperatives
• Laws governing charitable associations.

We advise you personally. Our specialists in the field of “civil law” are Claus Ludwig Meyer-Wyk, Prof. Dr. Ulf Gundlach and Dr. Almuth Werner.

We contribute with extensive experience from businesses of various sizes and from various industries. Our objective is to offer you an individual solution that meets the needs of your business, your challenge and your employees.

Further information will follow shortly.

Foundations and associations are typical legal forms for non-profitable activities and volunteer work. At the same time, due to the low degree of legal regulations, they possess the largest degree of legal structural leeway. We would be pleased to consult you in all legal issues pertaining to foundations and associations, as well as in matters concerning ongoing business management, such as in relation to meeting of governing bodies or the examination of the legal framework conditions of your projects.

We advise you for instance in the structuring of:

• contracts for project cooperations
• Endowed funds
• Sponsoring agreements
• Interpretation and changes of articles of association
• By-laws
• Resolutions
• Restructuring, subdivisions, spin-offs, administrative cooperations or the establishment of umbrella foundations.

And we are also active for you in the following fields:

• Accountability, reporting
• Laws pertaining to dependent foundations
• Foundations under public law
• Laws pertaining to church foundations.

We advise you personally. Our specialists in the field of foundation and association law are Dr. Almuth Werner and Dr. Ralph Bartmuß.
We are experienced in all fields of foundation law, of all areas as well as with foundations and associations of various sizes.

We would be pleased to assist you with your specific structuring needs or project idea.

Further information will follow shortly.

Further information will follow shortly.

Further information will follow shortly.

Together with you, we analyze your labor law-related processes and conflict situations. Longstanding experience and the profound knowledge of legal leeways enable us to provide you the very best possible support in all areas of individual and collective law, as well as during daily business and with transformational projects.

We advise you for instance in the structuring of:

• Employment and service contracts
• Compensation models
• Bargaining agreements
• In-house wage scale agreements
• Flexible working time models
• Reconciliation of interests and social plans.

And we are also active for you in the following fields:

• Industrial constitution law
• Operative restructuring
• Laws pertaining to industrial disputes, support in trade union negotiations
• Worktime consulting
• Support during negotiations toward the reconciliation of interest and social benefit plans
• Data protection laws affecting employment relationships
• Process representation dismissal protection proceedings and decision-making processes, as well as in terms of social security status proceedings
• Public service and higher education law, incl. civil service law

We advise you personally. Our specialists in the field of “Employment Services” are Franziska Häcker (specialist attorney in labor law), Steffen Köppe and Nicole Jochheim (Specialist attorney for social and administrative law, special focus on civil service law and higher education law). We contribute with extensive experience from businesses of various sizes and from various industries. Our objective is to offer you an individual solution that meets the needs of your business, your challenge and your employees.

General legal consulting is a regular foundation of our client offering, often as a supplements for our mandate in special fields of law.

We support you for instance in:

• Contractual negotiations and contract interpretation (determination of content, filling of gaps)
• Enforcing and defense against forbearance and damage claims toward partners or third parties
• The tax-optimized structuring of contracts in collaboration with our tax consultants
• The design and enforcement of your payment claims, e.g. in the field of water and waste water supply based on private accounting laws.

And we are also active for you in the following fields:

• Individual incorporation of executive managers, managing directors and supervisory board members in new business fields
• Employee and committee training and legal issues relevant in practice
• Moderation of discussions in various conflict situations.

We advise you personally. We contribute with extensive experience from businesses of various sizes and from various industries. Our objective is to offer you an individual solution that meets the needs of your business, your challenge and your employees. Our specialists in the field of Legal consulting and legal litigation support are Dr. Almuth Werner, Franziska Häcker, Claus Ludwig Meyer-Wyk, Stefan Fenzel, Prof. Dr. Ulf Gundlach, Dirk Grünberg.

Legal issues are ever increasing in the field of health care. We consult and support you in cases in which you require clarity for your projects, in the structuring and status issues and in the implementation of requirements. The health-care sector is characterized by the interaction of various fields of law, in particular social law, civil and company law and the legal principles applicable to health-care professionals. In addition to this are the tasks predominantly involving charitable bodies.

We provide advice for instance in:

• The acquisition and sales of medical practices and other medical operations
• Restructuring, fusions or spin-offs
• The structuring of cooperations with other service providers
• Legal enforcement of compensation and loyalty claims
• Issues pertaining to labor law, also under consideration of civil service law
• Negotiation and structuring of agreements with health-care service providers
• Representation toward ministries and other authorities, also in collaboration with professional and economic interest groups.

Our specialists in the field of health-care law are Claus Ludwig Meyer-Wyk and Nicole Jochheim, who closely collaborate with other specialists, e.g. in labor law and tax law, as health-care law is subject to constant changes. The key factor is to be able to quickly understand developments with all consequences and to find the appropriate answer. We are particularly pleased when we can contribute to new structures in legal development with our clients. Because then we know that we have found a good result.

The importance of public procurement law has increased considerably in recent years. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the public sector awards public contracts with a total annual volume of several 100 billion EUR. A strictly regulated procedure is intended to ensure that contracting authorities award their contracts to the most economical bid, taking into account all relevant circumstances, in order to use the budget funds entrusted to them sparingly.
Public procurement law is highly fragmented and has been subject to constant change for years.

We advise and support you as a public client:

• in all stages of the procurement procedure
• in clarifying preliminary questions under public procurement law (examination of the obligation to issue a tender, choice of type of procedure, calculation of deadlines)
• in the preparation of tender documents, including publication and documentation
• in answering questions from tenderers and responding to complaints from tenderers
• in the course of tender evaluation
• in review proceedings before the Public Procurement Tribunals and the Higher Regional Courts

And we are also active for you in the following fields:

• Advice and representation of bidders in public procurement proceedings
• Enforcement of the claims of companies within the scope of review proceedings
• Advice to recipients of subsidies, including the defence of recovery claims due to alleged violations of public procurement law

Your personal contact is Lars Mörchen.

We are predominantly active in the field of social security law and provide comprehensive consulting services as well as experienced process support.

We advise and support you:

• judicially and extra-judicially for the establishment of insurance status
• in social security body audits
• in the design of agreements for self-employed and employees with regard to social security law
• proceedings against (additional) contributions.

And we are also active for you in the following fields:

• Laws pertaining to legal health insurance
• Laws pertaining to accident insurance.

Your personal consulting contact is Nicole Jochheim.