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PARTNERSHIP LAW

We will be pleased to assist you with questions relating to partnership law, whether in the relationship between partners or between a company and its partners. One of the focus areas of our work is to assist members of the liberal professions in corporate law disputes, in particular when joining and leaving professional partnerships.

Focal Points

Foundation, choice of the right corporate form

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Civil law association [Gesellschaft des bürgerlichen Rechts – GbR]

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General partnership [Offene Handelsgesellschaft – OHG]

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Limited partnership [Kommanditgesellschaft – KG]

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Limited partnership with a private limited company as a general partner [GmbH & Co. KG]

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Non-typical silent partnership and dormant partnership

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Preparation and design of partnership agreements

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Preparation and design of partners' agreements and participation agreements

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Preparation and design of voting trust agreements

Partners' meeting

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Preparation and design of convocations of partners' meetings and agendas

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Preparation and assistance in conducting partners' meetings

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Capital measures

Advisory board, supervisory board

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Composition of the advisory board or supervisory board and formation of committees

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Preparation and design of rules of procedure

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Advisory board or supervisory board liability, D & O

Restructurings, transformations

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Demerger, merger, change of legal form, and other measures under the German Transformation Act [UmwG]

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Profit transfer and control agreements

Shareholders, rights to information, shareholder actions

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Admission of partners

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Withdrawal of partners

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Disputes in connection with compensation balance sheets and apportioning balance sheets for the determination of the compensation amount

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Requests for additions to the agenda for a partners’ meeting

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Representation of partners and assertion of information rights within and outside the partners' meeting

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Advice and representation in lawsuits brought by partners, Disputes concerning defects in resolutions

Appointment of a special representative

Liability of (managing) partners

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Advising and representing members of the liberal professions (e.g. lawyers, patent attorneys, tax advisors, auditors, architects, physicians) in connection with their position as partners

Advice and representation in legal proceedings

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Actions by partners (see above)

Dissolution and liquidation