OUR PRACTICE AREAS
We have decades of experience in negotiations between US and German-speaking parties. Like our clients, we are business-minded, seeking to maximize achievement of commercial targets while minimizing liability risk. We provide our clients with swift and precise recommendations – without unnecessarily wordy legal explanations or disclaimers.
- Employment law matters in US states
- Employment contracts
- Pay structures, 401(k) plans, health insurance and bonuses
- Payroll and payroll accounting
- Expat contracts
- Visas and work permits
- Employment law proceedings and arbitration
- Handbooks and codes of conduct
- Representation in court and arbitration proceedings
- Mediation
- Strategic planning of and advice on proceedings in all US states
- Company incorporation
- Corporate governance
- Directors’ and officers’ remuneration and liability
- Assistance with board of directors and shareholder meetings
- Minute book administration and corporate secretary activities
- Trademark law
- Media and publishing, copyright and software law
- Advising on and implementing staff deployments
- US visas and work permits
- Green Cards
- Real-estate transactions
- Tenancy law, tenancy agreements
- Establishment of real-estate holdings
- US and transatlantic corporate mergers and acquisitions
- Warranties
- Assessing product documentation
- Minimization of liability
- Consumer protection law
- FDA procedures
- Arms control
- Customs law
- Export control law
- Advice on project profile creation
- Negotiating with authorities and utility companies
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating memorandums of agreement
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating US contracts
- General terms and conditions
- Establishing purchasing and sales structures
- Enforcing and defending claims in contract, liability and commercial law disputes in the USA and in transatlantic relationships
- Developing contract management systems