Corporate Governance 2025

GERMANY Law and Practice Contributed by: Eva Nase and Kay-Uwe Neumann, POELLATH

POELLATH is an internationally operating Ger - man law firm of more than 180 lawyers and tax advisers in Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich, pro - viding high-end legal and tax advice. The firm advises on all transaction-related areas, includ - ing corporate, M&A, private equity, funds, real estate, private clients, succession planning and tax-related matters. POELLATH’s corporate advice includes corporate law and group com - pany law, reorganisations, capital market rules, corporate litigation and compliance. POELLATH advises publicly listed and private companies on preparing and conducting their general and

shareholder meetings on all matters, including mergers, spin-offs and hive-downs, conver - sions of legal form, and on all corporate advi - sory matters related to corporate governance. A further core area is public takeovers with subse - quent corporate integration. Key clients include Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom AG, sharehold - ers of Porsche Automobil Holding SE, PUMA SE, Wacker Neuson SE, Eckert & Ziegler SE, Nemetschek SE, Münchener Hypothekenbank, BayWa, Giesecke+Devrient, Fiege Group, Groz- Beckert and STAEDTLER.

Authors

Eva Nase is a partner at POELLATH in Munich. She specialises in legal advice for

Kay-Uwe Neumann is a counsel at POELLATH in Munich. He specialises in representing and advising foreign and domestic companies, particularly listed stock corporations, in corporate

domestic and foreign institutional and private investors, listed and private corporations and board members, in all corporate advisory and capital market matters, public takeovers and private transactions, restructurings and corporate litigation. Her clients include national and international corporations, private equity companies and private clients. Since 2001 she has specialised in corporate and capital markets law, as well as M&A/private equity, including for five years in a leading international law firm. Eva is considered a leading expert in her field.

and commercial law matters and on group law. He advises clients on public takeovers and subsequent structural and integration measures, including the implementation of (merger law) squeeze-out procedures, the conclusion of control and profit transfer procedures and restructuring. This advice also includes litigation representation in corporate law disputes. He has been seconded by the German Bar Association to the Federal Department of Justice as an expert on corporate law and has lectured on corporate law at the University of Muenster for more than a decade.

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