Your success
is our success
Succession Planning
Dr. André Schwanna, attorney-at-law, has more than 20 years of professional experience. He will guide you through this exciting time in a calm and professional manner.
Key areas of expertise:
- Ensure the best purchase price for the company
- Personal and efficient advice at all phases of the process
- Obtaining a state-of-the-art business valuation
- Due diligence
- Draft, negotiation and execution of all legal documentation
- Ensure best legal protection of the seller and mitigating all potential risks in order to allow a carefree life after completion of the transaction
- Efficient coordination with tax and other advisors
One-stop-approach covering all other relevant legal matters, including:
- Funding
- Inheritance matters
It happens very often that we also assist our clients in all further aspects such as inheritance matters once the business succession has ben completed.
Schwanna Legal has been working successfully with KERN Unternehmensnachfolge for many years. With over 30 offices in the DACH region, KERN Unternehmensnachfolge advises on company successions and sales from an economic perspective and supports its clients in company sales and successions, company valuations and in the search for suitable buyers.
Cooperations and joint ventures
Cooperations are like marriages. They are designed to last. And sometimes, you only see after some time that living together is not so easy. It is therefore all the more important that the joint venture and the corporate documentation is prepared in a prudent and professional manner. Schwanna Legal can rely on decades of experience in negotiating and structuring corporations and will help you to ensure that your joint venture is successful in the long term.
Key areas of expertise:
- Contractual cooperations
- Equity joint ventures
- Due diligence
- Drafting and negotiation of all legal documentation
- Close to clients also between signing and closing
- Advising on corporate restructurings and equity contributions in parallel to the joint venture
- Exit strategies and legal options
A joint venture is often the first step to a full takeover. Schwanna Legal provides seamless service on the full set of steps taking into account all potential future requirements and actions when entering into the joint venture.
International M&A
M&A transactions in Germany and abroad have their own challenges. You need a professional and experienced team of advisors to successfully close the deal. Schwanna Legal will assist you in a one-stop-approach.
Key areas of expertise:
- M&A transactions (asset deal and share deal)
- Portfolio transactions
- Project management
- Due diligence
- Drafting and negotiation of all legal documentation
- Taking care of signing and closing
- Orchestration of all parties, advisors and other stakeholders
In international M&A transactions, soft factors such as cultural understanding, awareness of local customs, language skills and insights in the relevant market practices play such an important role that cannot be underestimated. Relying on decades of experience may make the difference.
Corporate reorganizations
Dr. André Schwanna, attorney-at-law, has been advising clients on a variety of complex restructurings for more than 20 years, including all forms of reorganizations under the German Reorganization Act.
Key areas of expertise:
- Mergers and other legal forms of business combinations
- Demergers (split-offs, spin-offs and carve-outs) of business units
- Combinations of restructuring options
- Project management
- Preparation of the full legal documentation
- Coordination with all parties involved, including employee representatives, authorities, tax and other advisors as well as notary public
Reorganization measures are often required in connection with intended corporate transactions. Schwanna Legal will lead you through all steps in a one-stop-approach.
Your success is
our success!
Company Succession
& Company Sale
Corporate reorganizations
M&A
Cooperations & Joint ventures
Contact
Business address
Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
Rahmannstr. 3
65760 Eschborn
Germany