Trade & industry

The trade and industry group consists of lawyers with wide experience of these practice areas. We offer our clients proactive advice across the whole spectrum of manufacturing,trading and service-related activities.We assist our clients with all types of contracts, ranging from one-off supply contracts through various forms of joint venture to export and project agreements. In 2008 we worked on, among other things, major overseas projects involving the construction and operation of power plants. Where our involvement starts early in a project, we are able to influence the framework conditions and fundamental assumptions to ensure added value for our clients.

Proactive tax advice is very important for businesses. For example, the structuring of joint ventures may have enormous tax implications. We advise on entering into, following up and amending financial agreements and also participate actively in the actual restructuring process. Our comprehensive experience means we are often employed by clients as sparring partners to discuss strategic restructuring issues. Many of our clients are small and medium-sized businesses with no legal department. For these clients we function as in-house lawyers, becoming involved in all legal questions. So far this year we have, unsurprisingly, experienced increasing demand for assistance from clients that are restructuring or downsizing. We have also assisted with transactions arising directly out of the financial crisis.