During its entire life cycle your company is being confronted with a multitude of legal issues.  Don’t be stopped by those.

Fischer FLP offers you comprehensive corporate law advice and supports you effectively, target-oriented and loyally right from the start up to the end of the life cycle of your company. So that your company doesn’t lack anything.

This means, in particular:

• Comprehensive advice and decision support, which legal form is best suited to let you realize your business objectives.
• Competent advice and support when forming a company, especially in the form of an Austrian GmbH or AG or in the form of partnerships.
• Pragmatic advice and support in registering Austrian branches of foreign companies.
• Expert advice and support in relation to company- or shareholder-related agreements, in particular drafting, negotiating or reviewing statutes or contracts as well as agreements among shareholders, especially in the form of syndicate agreements.
• Reliable advice and representation of shareholders at general- or shareholder meetings as a proxy.
• Comprehensive advice to supervisory boards and assumption of supervisory board mandates.
• Efficient advice and support relating to changes in the corporate capital.
• Swift advice and support in relation to personal changes within your company (change in the management or in the board of directors, in the supervisory board or among the shareholders, members of the supervisory board).
• Solution-oriented advice and support in relation to shareholder disputes and legal representation before courts.
• Efficient advice and support in the event of the termination and/or liquidation of your company.

Active internal changes in business direction, efficient reactions to external influences or changes in the external framework sometimes require structural adjustments.

Fischer FLP supports you competently and goal-oriented in the reorientation of your national or international company by way of corporate reorganization under company law. So that your company remains well positioned.

This means, in particular:

• Together with your tax advisor, comprehensive legal advice and support on the question of which way of reorganizing is best suited to your situation.
• Expert legal advice and support regarding the implementation of corporate- or business mergers, domestic as well as international.
• Competent legal advice and support in the implementation of de-mergers and spin-offs of companies and business units.
• Efficient legal advice and support regarding the transfer of corporate assets into your existing or newly founded company.
• Comprehensive legal advice and support for the cross-border establishment of your company as a European Stock Company (SE foundation).
• Competent legal advice and support in effecting cross-border conversions of legal form to change the legal form of your foreign company.
• Solution-oriented legal advice and support concerning all legal issues relating to corporate reorganization, in particular regarding competition law, labour law, real estate / property law, IP / IT, taxes and public law.

Further Reading: Grenzüberschreitende Umgründungen (german language)

The achievement of your business objectives at times requires the completion of corporate transactions. A demanding and often challenging situation. Competent advice and forward-looking as well as creative legal support are often crucial.

Fischer FLP advises and supports you in a committed, goal-oriented and comprehensive manner when handling corporate transactions. So that you succeed in your endeavours.

This means, in particular:

• Expert legal advice and support in the acquisition or sale of your company through a Share Deal by way of selling or acquiring company shares.
• Efficient legal advice and support for the purchase or sale of your company in the form of an Asset Deal through the purchase or sale of business assets.
• Comprehensive legal advice and support in relation to international corporate transactions through the cross-border acquisition or sale of companies or parts of companies.
• Solution-oriented legal advice and support regarding management Buy-outs and Exits;
• Efficient legal advice and support concerning all legal issues relating to M&A transactions, especially regarding competition law, labour law, real estate / property law, IP / IT, tax law and public law

Managing a company is challenging and sometimes even risky. From the time of your appointment as managing director or member of the management board, you are faced with a multitude of obligations. Non-compliance can lead to personal liability.

What are you allowed to do? What do you have to do? Advice to successfully master your challenge as a managing director or board member is often rare. Conversely, it can be difficult for you as a partner or supervisory board to deal with managing directors or board members adequately. This as well can be fraught with legal hurdles.

Fischer FLP offers members of management reliable, competent and comprehensive legal support. So that you are safely guided.

This means, in particular:

• Comprehensive and competent advice on the duties and liabilities of members of the management.
• Swift and solution-oriented advice on the duties and liabilities of management members in times of crisis.
• Comprehensive and pragmatic advice and support in relation to service contracts of managing directors or board members.
• Competent and comprehensive advice and Support of - and relating to - authorized representatives.
• Reliable and goal-oriented advice and legal representation in relation to claims for damages against members of the management on both the plaintiff’s and defendant’s side.
• Competent preparation of legal opinions on any legal questions in connection with potential liabilities.
• Dedicated and goal-oriented advice and legal representation in relation to management disputes.