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Compliance in business prevents your company and its (managing) directors and other business executives from being held liable for misbehavior within the company. To comply with existing legal prescriptions becomes increasingly important and has long ceased to be a matter of large companies alone.

Being a certified "Compliance Officer (Univ.)" of Augsburg University, Dr. Markus Hohmuth advises with setting up and/or expanding your compliance management system. As a first step, the specific risks, your business is individually subject to, will have to be assessed. Depending on the outcome of such assessment, a number of measures turns out to be necessary and reasonable to meet the existing risks. Such measures may include, amongst others, regular compliance trainings of your staff which MH-Legal is glad to carry out for you. Even the best compliance management system, however, is useless if the measures taken to ensure compliance are not controlled on a regular basis. MH-Legal thus supports your business also in this respect and will be glad to assume the role as your external compliance officer.

Without debt capital, things work only in exceptional situations. MH-Legal advises lenders and borrowers in negotiating and entering into loan and security agreements, agreements relating to capital markets (i.e. capital increases and capital decreases, IPOs etc.) and in connection with any other documents relating to financing.

If you require support in with the negotiation of an important supply contract, want to change the distribution concept of your business or if a shareholder resolution is to be passed in a legally safe way - this kind of ongoing challenges can be very different and demanding. MH-Legal is looking forward to supporting you with such typical challenges in connection with commercial and corporate law ("corporate/commercial housekeeping") - and will be glad to do this even on a regular basis as your external legal department.

Moreover, MH-Legal advises in connection with (contemplated) mergers and acquisitions (M&A) relating to your business. Beginning from concluding a term sheet until signing the sale and purchase agreement and closing of the transaction, MH-Legal supports you to efficiently utilise the existing space for negotiation in order to render the transaction a success.

Ideally, all agreements existing in your business are so straightforward and your business partners are reliable in a way that you will never have to initiate court proceedings in order to protect or enforce your rights.

In a number of situations, however, a law suit cannot be avoided. Thus, besides advising in extrajudicial matters, MH-Legal also offers support in connection with (commercial) litigation. If your business partner refuses to perform or corporate litigation arises - MH-Legal advises, beginning from assessing the prospects of success of your claim until representing you before the German courts. In the contrary situation where there is a law suit filed against your business, MH-Legal is looking forward to being your trusted adviser as well and will develop the appropriate stategies as a defence against unjustified claims.