REFERENCES
The consulting portfolio of Kowalski Clemens Schmidt Partnership, which is tailored to companies and entrepreneurs, is based on many years of expertise in all relevant legal and economic matters – evidenced, among other things, by a large number of selected references. (In the following selection, only those mandates are listed that are either publicly known or which our clients have agreed to see published).
- Shareholders in the SURTECO GROUP SE negotiating and concluding a new pool agreement
- Peters Unternehmensgruppe, Moers, on the sale of a company to the REMONDIS Group
- Bialowons Holding GmbH on acquiring stakes in the companies of the furniture subgroup of the Nolte Group, Germersheim
- SURTECO GROUP SE on the acquisition of an Austrian company
- Leading German restructuring consultant on the acquisition of a significant stake in a leading German furniture manufacturer
- Family shareholders of the Hüls Group (hülsta) on the termination of the bank trust and the sale of a stake to Dr. Thomas Knecht
- Shareholder of true fruits GmbH, Bonn, on the sale of a stake to Eckes-Granini and the conclusion of a participation and shareholder agreement
- Hüls group of companies on the sale of Rolf Benz to KUKA Home
- Owner of Hallo Pizza GmbH on the sale of the company to Domino‘s
- Owner of a laboratory operating company on the sale of their company to the French Eurofins group
- SURTECO GROUP SE on the acquisition of the Probos Group
- Hüls and Rolf Benz on the sale of RUF-Bett to NORDHolding
- Hüls (hülsta) on the sale of Parador to NORDHolding
- Owner of a family business in the field of paper production on the sale of part of their group of companies to the Austrian Prinzhorn Group
- Advice on the outsourcing of the business operations of raiwa eG, Müden / Aller, to Raiffeisen Waren GmbH, Kassel
- Advising Biotest AG, Dreieich, on strategic issues
- SURTECO GROUP SE on the acquisition of the Süddekor companies (manufacturer of surfaces and decor prints) and support for a cash capital increase
- Owner of the BKG-Kreyenborg Group (major component and system supplier for the plastics and recycling industry) on the sale of the company to Nordson
- Energy supply companies on corporate and strategic issues as well as on various restructurings
- Family entrepreneur in the reorganization of his property and transferring it to a non-commercial GmbH & Co. KG
- Sale of the Microbiological Monitoring division of Biotest AG to MERCK KGaA
- Biotest AG on the conclusion of a license, development and cooperation agreement with Abbott Laboratories, Inc. for the development and use of a monoclonal antibody
- Sale of the medical diagnostics division of Biotest AG to Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
- Sale of the CRH Group (major automotive supplier in the field of seats and seating technology) to Johnson Controls, Inc.
- Advising a major valuables transport company on corporate law issues and acquisitions
- Conversion of SURTECO AG (today SURTECO GROUP SE) into a European company (Societas Europaea, SE)
- Family shareholders of the Hüls Group on the sale of their shares in hülsta AG & Co. KG to the managing partner Dr. Thomas Knecht
- Majority shareholders on the sale of their shares in HTV Halbleiter Test- und Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH and HTV Conservation GmbH, Bensheim, to a Spanishsubsidiary of TÜV NORD AG
- Advice on asset disputes between an entrepreneur and his wife, setting up a family office in Germany
- Advice on drawing up business wills and inheritance contracts
- Advice on setting up a family office outside of Germany
- Conception of a double foundation model as a means of corporate succession
- Advice on the harmonization of inheritance law (wills) and company law regulations (articles of association) from the point of view of the majority shareholder / entrepreneur
- Conception and implementation of foundation solutions as a means of corporate succession
- Optimization of the company law regulations at home and abroad from the point of view of the majority shareholder; creation of multi-level holding structures
- Advising a German subsidiary of a US company on the negotiation and conclusion of a commercial lease agreement for office space in Munich
- Advising a German subsidiary of a French group on the negotiation and conclusion of a commercial lease agreement for a large factory site in Düsseldorf as well as on ongoing questions of tenancy law
- Supervision of the existing leases of a German subsidiary of a French retail group at nationwide locations as well as support in tenancy law litigation
- Support of a medium-sized company in the context of a relocation to Düsseldorf as well as in the termination and processing of the existing lease agreement at the previous location
- Advising a German subsidiary of an Italian retail group on the leases that existed at nationwide locations
- Supervision of the existing lease agreements at nationwide locations of a German subsidiary of a Spanish group on current tenancy law issues
- Support of a medium-sized company in the negotiation of a commercial lease agreement for a new office complex as well as in the cancellation of an existing lease agreement and a sublease
- Advising a medium-sized company on the negotiation of a property purchase agreement for a company property as part of the acquisition of a sole proprietorship
- Advising a medium-sized company on the negotiation of a property purchase agreement for the sale of a larger company property
- Advising a subsidiary of a German group on the negotiation of a property purchase agreement for the acquisition of several commercial properties
- Advice in connection with the extension of a leasehold contract for a commercial property
- Advising a medium-sized company on all real estate law issues
- Advising a medium-sized company on the negotiation of a property purchase agreement for the acquisition of a larger company property
- Arbitration proceedings (DIS) regarding the return of a seller’s security from a company purchase agreement (party representative)
- Arbitration proceedings (DIS) regarding claims from a company purchase agreement (guarantee and indemnification claims) (party representative) with subsequent annulment proceedings before the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court of Justice
- Arbitration proceedings (DIS) regarding claims from a company purchase agreement (arbitrator)
- Arbitration proceedings (DIS) regarding claims from an asset purchase agreement and rental agreement (arbitrator)
- Arbitration proceedings (DIS) regarding claims from the company purchase agreement for the sale of a family business (guarantee and indemnification claims, object value: EUR 150 million) (party representative)
- Arbitration proceedings (DIS) regarding the internal agreement of the shareholders of a family company on the sale of a company and the distribution of the proceeds (party representative)
- Arbitration procedure for evaluation in the event of a dispute against a company (party representative)
- Arbitration proceedings (DIS) regarding claims from a company purchase agreement (arbitrator)
- Representing a German subsidiary of a Spanish group in judicial and extrajudicial disputes
- Advising and representing a German subsidiary of a Chinese entrepreneur in connection with the assertion and defense of claims by a German pastry manufacturer
- Representing clients in connection with the termination of a commercial lease agreement