German Client Desk

Description

The German-Ukrainian cooperation continues to expand offering both sides many business opportunities. To succeed in a new market you need to navigate various cultural, legal and regulatory issues. Nobles German Desk helps clients from German-speaking jurisdictions to successfully operate in Ukraine, and provides legal guidance to Ukrainian clients in Germany. Our German Desk is headed by Partner Alexander Weigelt, a German native and a qualified lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) and consists of the lawyers who speak German and have experience in working on complex transactions, including M&A, banking & finance, competition, real estate, arbitration and IP issues. We boast many large companies in German-speaking countries as our loyal clients for many years.

Our Services

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• Banking & Finance

• Competition & Antitrust

• Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions

• Distribution & Franchising

• Intellectual Property

• Insolvency & Restructuring

• Real Estate & Land Law

• Tax

• Agriculture & Food Production

• Automotive & New Mobility

• Energy & Renewables

• Insurance & Reinsurance

• Fashion & Cosmetics

• Manufacturing & Industrial

• Outsourcing & IT-Outsourcing

• Technology, Media & Telecommunications

Notable Experience

• Local counsel to Deutsche Telekom AG in EUR 546 million takeover of GTS Central Europe Group

• Advising Rocket Internet in a number of restructurings and corporate matters and on potential acquisition of a startup venture in e-commerce industry (value over 2 million USD)

• Provided legal advice to a Munich RE reinsurance group on portfolio restructuration in Ukraine

• Advised Claas, a world-renowned producer and supplier of agricultural machines with regard to a distribution agreement for use in Ukraine.

• Advised BSH Hausgeräte, a Ukrainian subsidiary of a world-renowned German domestic appliances producer, on competition matters related to vertical agreements with Ukrainian distributors

• Supported BSH Hausgeräte in the lease of about 1,500 sq. m. of office space in Ukraine

• Assisted a German investor with holdings in a Ukrainian industrial company to defeat a “raider” attack (unfriendly takeover) mounted by a minority shareholder

• Advising on corporate restructuring of German machinery producer subsidiary in Ukraine, including tax, currency control and customs issues for in-kind contributions (cars, equipment, etc) from the representative office to the subsidiary company's charter capital

• Provided a legal advice to a German Dax 30 technology company on a merger with a Ukrainian company and on the establishment of a lease-based distribution concept

• Advising Wendeln in structuring of sale of vertically integrated agricultural production complex in Cherson region on behalf of a German family office, which is present in Ukraine since 1995

• Advised Otto Group on labor dispute and amicable settlement with top management

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