As a full-service business law firm, SERNETZ · SCHÄFER is active in all areas of commercial law. We provide domestic and foreign companies and entrepreneurs with advice in particular in the areas of company-, capital-markets-, banking-, and tax-law, including mergers and aquisitions, transformations of companies and public take-overs.

Our experienced litigation specialists regularly represent, inter alia, banks and other businesses in complex and highly demanding court and arbitration cases. We give advice to and represent managing directors and members of executive and supervisory boards; we serve on supervisory boards ourselves, and are called upon to act as arbitrators.

Our areas of specialisation include in particular:

• Anti-trust and competition law
• Banking and investment companies’ law
• Capital markets law, including stock exchange regulations and public offerings
• Commercial and contract law
• Company law (public and private limited companies, partnerships)
• Customs and excise duty law
• Estate law and estate planning
• EU law
• Financial services regulations
• Insolvency law
• Insurance law (private and regulatory)
• Intellectual property law
• Litigation and arbitration
• Mergers and acquisitions (national and cross-border), including public take-overs
• Product liability law
• Tax law (national and international)
• Transformation of companies
• Trusts and foundations