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Business law, corporate law & M&A

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Every day, companies make decisions with legal, economic, and personal implications. We advise entrepreneurs, corporations, and investors on company formation, growth, financing, transactions, reorganizations, as well as restructuring and corporate turnaround. Our approach is to view legal issues not in isolation, but in the context of strategy, risk, financing, taxes, shareholder structure, and operational implementation. We think entrepreneurially, negotiate with a focus on solutions, and create a solid legal foundation for growth, change, and security.

 

Typical situations in which we can assist

We provide advice on business formation, reorganization, equity investments, restructuring, and ongoing corporate law support for companies.

M&A and business transactions

We assist with corporate acquisitions and divestitures, structure due diligence processes, and draft investment, purchase, and other transaction agreements right through to closing.

We provide assistance with funding rounds, investor negotiations, shareholder agreements, equity participation models, and strategic growth initiatives.

We draft, review, and negotiate contracts which are crucial to day-to-day business operations — clear, robust, and economically sound.

We assist in identifying risks ahead of time, establishing a basis for decision-making, and designing legal structures that will prove resilient even in difficult situations.

Whether you are digitising processes, implementing new software or AI, or processing sensitive company, customer or employee data — we ensure that data protection and legal requirements are considered from the outset.

We assist companies with GDPR compliance, data protection agreements, employee data protection, data breaches, and proceedings before the data protection authority, as well as with the legally compliant use of AI and new digital technologies.

We advise companies and executives on employment contracts, managing director and executive board contracts, terminations and mutually agreed terminations, non-compete clauses, personnel measures, employee stock ownership plans, and labor law disputes.

We assist companies, shareholders, and executives with legal and financial restructuring in economically challenging situations — from crisis analysis and negotiations with creditors and lenders to the implementation of out-of-court or court-supervised restructuring and reorganization measures.

Do you have questions? We have the answers.

When should I involve a lawyer in corporate law matters?

Ideally, before binding decisions are made, contracts are signed or shareholder resolutions are adopted. Clear structures and proper documentation can prevent many subsequent disputes. Waiting too long can mean losing strategic options, access to information or evidence.

Yes. LIKAR advises buyers, sellers, companies, shareholders and investors on M&A transactions throughout Austria, as well as on cross-border transactions. Our legal advice covers the entire transaction process, from structuring and preparing the transaction, drafting and negotiating letters of intent and conducting legal due diligence, through to drafting and negotiating the transaction documents, as well as signing and closing. Where required, we also coordinate with tax advisors, auditors, financing partners, notaries and foreign legal counsel.

 

Not only once insolvency has already set in. An early legal and economic analysis broadens the scope for action, facilitates negotiations with banks, investors, and creditors, and can reduce the personal liability risks faced by corporate officers. When concrete signs of a crisis emerge, liquidity, the financing structure, the prospects for continued operations, and obligations under insolvency law should be reviewed immediately. Find out more here.

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