Practice Areas

We provide legal advice for private and public employers and employees alike, regarding all legal questions beginning with the signing of the contract, through the mutual obligations under labour contracts up to the termination of such contracts. In addition we conduct the necessary lawsuits before the Labour Courts, the Higher Labour Courts and the Federal Labour Court. Our services include drafting labour- and service contracts, negotiating and reviewing your termination agreements and the agreements for winding up existing contracts, representation in disputes relating to the termination of a contract, providing legal advice in cases relating to personal restructuring- and transfer of the business as well as post-contractual advice, for instance in cases relating to restraint of competition. We also take on the day to day legal counselling for human resources departments.

Drafting social compensation plans and single plant bargaining agreements as well as representation in proceedings before the conciliation board are part of our services related to collective labour law.

Your Contact Person
Susanne Laura Sinzger-Wegerhoff

We take on to represent the building owners’, the building contractors’ and the architects’ interests relating to all questions and problems in and out of court. We also support you in drafting and implementing contracts for work and labour, contracts for building project organisation, architects’ and engineers’ contracts (of service), records of negotiations and contract offers, as well as performance- and warranty bonds. We provide advice in case of questions relating to warranty, to building regulations and urban development laws as well as with drafting invoices such as progress payment (Abschlagsrechnung) - and final invoices pursuant to the German Civil Code (BGB), the German Construction Contract Procedures (VOB) and the Fee Structure for Architects and Engineers (HOAI).

Your Contact Persons
Christian Sporer, Börries Dekena

We provide advice on how to draw up contracts of succession by inheritance, wills and such for the conveyance of property. Considering tax related problems, we develop solutions that avoid disputes and, where required, provide for the transfer of the business to the succeeding generation. We also take on to pursue- or to defend you against succession related claims.

Your Contact Persons
Christian Sporer, Lisette Greiner, Börries Dekena

We provide advice on problems relating to the freedoms under Community law, in particular the free of movement of goods, the free movement of persons, the free movement of capital, the freedom to provide services and the freedom of establishment as well as on problems relating to various forms of aid-, subsidy- and benefit schemes provided by the European Community.

Your Contact Person
Börries Dekena

We represent you in all family law related cases such as divorce and separation. We clarify questions related to maintenance, custody and visitation rights, matrimonial property regime, equalisation of accrued gains during wedlock (Zugewinnausgleich) as well as pension rights adjustments. We create individual agreements for you such as prenuptial-, separation and divorce agreements. You receive our help in decision making, the creation of future concepts and in conflict resolution. We also give advice on tax-related and economic aspects of family law.

Your Contact Persons
Susanne Laura Sinzger-Wegerhoff, Christian Sporer, Lisette Greiner

We provide a wide range of Commercial- and Company law related services ranging from advice on how to set up a company through assistance with all company related structural measures up to the reorganisation in the case of crisis.

We draft your contracts in relation to the founding, the organisation, the transformation, the restructuring as well as the acquisition and sale of undertakings of any corporate structure. Moreover, we take on to represent shareholders and to give advice in case of disputes between the shareholders amongst each other and in case of disputes between the company or the shareholders with third parties respectively.

In Commercial law our services cover the entire field of commercial- and company related advice and contract drafting. The emphasis is on drafting work- and delivery contracts, contracts for delivery as well as drawing up particular contractual sales-, franchise-, factoring- and leasing concepts.

Your Contact Persons
Martin Sinzger, Bernd Tschöpe, Börries Dekena

The main focus of our services is drawing up and reviewing sales representatives contracts and authorised dealer contracts. Moreover, we support you with enforcing commercial agents’ compensation claims and defending yourself against such claims respectively.

Your Contact Person
Susanne Laura Sinzger-Wegerhoff

We advise you in school and academy law related matters such as legal questions concerning examinations as well as questions in the context of the study and examination regulations, admittance and qualification procedures and the charging of study fees.

Your Contact Person
Lisette Greiner

Nowadays fast and effective collection is indispensable for every entrepreneur. Accounts receivable and outstanding accounts tie up capital, lasting loss of outstanding accounts reduce profits and jeopardise the company’s profitability. As a business client we support you in recovering your outstanding accounts. We provide advice in claims management, assert your claims out of court and, where required, take up negotiation in order to reach a settlement with the debtors. In the case where you find lacking willingness to pay, we initiate summary proceedings for order to pay debts (Mahnverfahren) in order to render your claims legally enforceable and subsequently initiate the necessary measures of execution.

Your Contact Person
Christian Sporer

We take on to protect the rights of creditors and debtors, to provide support during ongoing proceedings as well as the settlement of debts.

Your Contact Person
Bernd Tschöpe

We provide advice regarding all questions relating to cross-border trading and the cross-border provision of services, the UN-Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgements and such relating to treaties providing for mutual judicial assistance. In case you plan to set up your business outside the borders of the Federal Republic of Germany, we give advice relating to all questions that might arise due to the specific cooperation with the foreign state and the application of the respective law.

In the course of increasing globalisation questions regarding the applicability of German- or any foreign law, such of international jurisdiction, of the admissibility of choice of law clauses in favour of a certain legal system or of the possibilities of execution abroad are becoming more and more relevant. In particular, in the area of commercial- and corporate law one can make reasonable use of international leeways as an instrument for drawing up contracts. We take on to draw up fail-safe contracts in step with actual practise. This applies to the same extent to contracts under corporate law, as well as to license agreements, distribution agreements or general terms and conditions. Furthermore, international legal aspects are of particular importance with regards to purchase law, the law of contracts for work and labour, in the field of pre-nuptial agreements and contracts of succession by inheritance as well as in labour law.

Legal advice in IT-law is one of our key focuses. Development, production, sales and maintenance of soft- and hardware requires regular review and adjustment of the underlying contracts and terms and conditions. We draw up and review soft- and hardware contracts, maintenance contracts as well as license agreements for you. Moreover, we provide legal advice in e-commerce, m-commerce, data protection and telecommunication.

Your Contact Persons
Martin Sinzger, Bernd Tschöpe

We are looking forward to file national and international trade marks as well as Community trademarks for you. We represent your interests with the German Patent and Trademark Office, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the Trade Marks and Design Registration Office of the European Union (OHIM), as well as with the courts of law. Closely connected to trademark protection is legal advice in domain matters, which we offer as well.

Your Contact Persons
Martin Sinzger, Bernd Tschöpe

Today entertainment law beside the classic fields like press, broadcast or film law comprises as a matter of course new media law like internet and multi-media too. Thereby a close relationship with copyright law exists. Entertainment law gets increasing importance because daily life, professional and private, meanwhile is dominated by media. We delight to advise you on all aspects of entertainment law from protection of personal rights to promotion on radio and television.

Your Contact Person
Bernd Tschöpe

We represent patients, physicians and insurance companies in the matter of claims concerning the compensation for immaterial damages, material damages and pension claims and we are specialised contact persons for medical malpractice law. We advice you in all matters of professional regulations and licensure (such as advertising, competition, remedy advertising, secrecy obligation), law of statutory health insurance physicians (such as matters of accounting and accreditation), corporate and contract law of healthcare professions, the adoption and the abandoning of surgeries, the law of services and labour law of the healthcare professions, pharmaceutical law as well as the law of medical products. We also advice corporations on the health market such as medical centres and hospitals. T

To solve medical law based questions, we cooperate closely with our external medical consultant Dr. Ludwig Greiner.

Your Contact Persons
Lisette Greiner, Martin Sinzger

We offer competent advice with concluding landlord-, tenant-, and leasehold agreements and with implementing the stipulations of such agreements.

Your Contact Person
Christian Sporer

We provide advice in tax related matters, amongst others with choosing the best legal structure for your undertaking as well as with tax-optimized acquisitions. We offer our specialized know-how to avoid criminal investigation proceedings by preventive counselling and to develop common strategic solutions in the case of criminal proceedings. Defence in proceedings for fiscal offences always comprises clarifying tax-related problems. Doing so, we closely cooperate with our cooperation-partner, Leidel Puchinger & Partner, a Certified Public Accountant and Tax Advisory firm.

Your Contact Person
Martin Sinzger

In the field of national and international Transportation Law we help you to enforce- or to defend yourself against senders’, shippers’-, carriers’- and forwarders’- claims, e.g. arising from damage, loss or partial loss. We serve you with the liquidation of transport damages against insurance companies. Moreover, we take on to draft fright-, forwarding-, storage-, and logistics contracts and provide advice regarding all questions relating to the law governing logistics such as customs and the law to prevent international fiscal evasion.

Subject of our copyright law related advice are questions relating to the protection of intellectual property, which oftentimes constitutes the major capital of an undertaking. In the course of increasing globalisation, companies are facing increasing competition. Every entrepreneur must therefore endeavour to acquire intellectual property rights for his goods and services and to protect them against abuse by third parties. We offer the following services in order to establish the basic prerequisites for effective intellectual property protection: filing industrial property rights, safeguarding and defending domain names, pursuing and thwarting violations, enforcing rights to forbearance, claims to be entitled to discovery and claims for damages, clarifying rights to- and securing licenses, drawing up licensing agreements.

Your Contact Persons
Martin Sinzger, Bernd Tschöpe

We represent both insurance companies, policy holders and aggrieved parties in all areas of private insurance law. This relates to private health-, life-, accident- as well as occupational disablement insurance. Another important area is property- and liability insurance. We provide advice and support in enforcing- or defending yourself against insurance law related claims.

Your Contact Persons
Susanne Laura Sinzger-Wegerhoff, Christian Sporer

Drafting and drawing up contracts are an essential element of legal practice in every branch of law. Every one of our attorneys performs these tasks – predominantly in his main area of interest. The same applies to implementing, interpreting and, as the case may be, to terminating contracts as well as to taking contract-related legal action in and out of court. We focus on reviewing and drafting General Terms and Conditions. Moreover, please do not hesitate to contact us, in case you have any questions regarding contracts, whether loan agreements, contracts of guarantee or brokerage contracts.

Your Contact Person
Susanne Laura Sinzger-Wegerhoff

We will represent you after involvement in road traffic accidents filing your claims for damages and compensation against other parties involved in the accident and against insurance companies. Moreover we will represent you in infraction- or regulatory offence proceedings due to excessive speed, red light jumping, undercutting the minimum distance, driving under the influence of alcohol etc. With respect to criminal offences related to the participation in road traffic such as driving without a license within the meaning of Art. 21 StVG (Road Traffic Regulation), hit-and-run within the meaning of Art. 142 StGB (German Criminal Code), drunk driving (Art. 316 German Criminal Code), Endangering Road Traffic (Art. 315c German Criminal Code) and Duress (Art. 240 German Criminal Code) etc. we will defend and represent you in all stages of the criminal proceedings.

Your Contact Persons
Christian Sporer, Börries Dekena

We provide advice regarding all questions in relation to public building law, urban planning law and the law governing the protection of historical buildings and monuments, environmental protection law, the law governing the protections against harmful effects on the environment through air pollutions, noise, vibrations and similar factors, the law governing expropriations, the law governing the status of public streets, ways, highways and waterways, the local law and public procurement law.

We have comprehensive know-how in the field of competition law. We review your advertisement concepts and marketing measures as to their admissibility under competition law and, together, we develop your market presence. We help you to proceed against your competitors’ unfair and/or misleading advertisement practices and to prevent illegal product imitation or the illegal utilization of trade- and industrial secrets. We serve warning notices to competitors for unfair competition, we respond to competition law related warning notices, we assert competition law related claims for disclosure and damages and we represent you in court in all competition related cases.

Your Contact Persons
Martin Sinzger, Bernd Tschöpe