Koller Law advises small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and their owners, executive bodies and investors on corporate transactions and financing. In addition, we support our clients in a general manner in the structuring of their contractual relationships. Where necessary, we work together with the most suitable external tax experts and other specialists. Within the framework of this specialized division of labor, we offer comprehensive services in the field of commercial law. As an outsourced legal department of SMEs, Koller Law acts as their contact person with economic expertise and, where appropriate, as coordinator between the client and other (legal) service providers. Our quality standards are high, as is our claim to generate measurable benefits for our clients. This is our incentive.
SME are at the center of a multifaceted network of relationships with their stakeholders such as executive bodies, employees, customers, shareholders, investors or the public sector. These in turn maintain a multitude of legal relationships with each other, which have the company as their object.
Koller Law supports its clients in building, managing and maintaining these networks, especially in the following areas:
Simple and complex company formations
Shareholders’ agreements
Employee participation programs
Employment contracts/remuneration models
Preparation of board and general meetings
Exercise of general corporate housekeeping functions
Development of management structures by means of organizational regulations
Board committees
Preparation and implementation of capital-changing measures (capital increases and reductions)
Structuring of options and warrants
Establishment of compliance structures
ICS/Internal directive systems
Outsourcing
Data protection
Koller Law also advises SMEs on drafting, negotiating and enforcing commercial contracts (such as purchase, lease, distribution, agency, franchise, licensing, work and labor contracts, etc.).
Changes in the ownership structure, the acquisition of other companies or the raising of debt or equity capital have far-reaching consequences for the parties involved, the company concerned, its employees and business partners.
Koller Law supports you in the careful planning and implementation of such projects and provides advice in particular in the following areas:
Preparation of company sales (coordination with consultants, information memoranda, memoranda of understanding/term sheets, confidentiality agreements, auction procedures)
Legal due diligence/structuring of electronic data rooms/due diligence request lists
Drafting and negotiation of transaction contracts (share purchase agreements, asset transfers, etc.)
Implementation of merger transactions
Clarification of obligations to publish a prospectus and drafting of prospectuses for public offerings
Joint ventures
Credit and collateral agreements/provision of collateral
Convertible loans
Advice on upstream and cross-stream loans and securities
Cash pooling