Services - national and international
The aim of my project management is to reconcile legal, financial, financial accounting and taxation related aspects in a reliable and profitable manner on your behalf.
In all situations where a qualified internal project manager does not exist or is not available for that comprehensive task, I can fulfil that role – thanks to my multidisciplinary competence and twenty years of relevant experience.
In this context, I regard myself as an interface between the executive officers / general management and internal as well as external specialists. I serve as a contact for all sides: someone who analyses, clarifies and competently deals with matters; someone with whom one can negotiate on an equal footing.
Thanks to my interdisciplinary and international background, I am able to identify risks impacting multiple departments and devise alternatives. In particular, that also includes innovative financial instruments such as syndicated loans, derivatives (e.g. swaps, options, forward rate agreements, futures), structured products, certificates, hybrid financial instruments, mezzanine capital or asset backed securities.
I can make operational decisions myself as agreed, thus making it possible to streamline protracted consultation processes.
Examples of activities
- Discussing and defining tasks and objectives
- Finding and selecting qualified specialists in Germany and abroad (lawyers, tax consultants, certified public accountants, banks); conducting budget negotiations
- Explaining facts and objectives to consultants; acting as a specialist sparring partner for experts
- Co-ordinating internal and external players; monitoring schedules and deadlines
- Making decisions that become necessary in the course of events – in accordance with guidelines and goals
- Carefully weighing advantages and disadvantages; preparing memorandums as a basis for decisions
- Legal and administrative “bridgehead” for foreign companies in Germany
The scope of my services does not include advice or support relating to commercial calculations or speculative ventures, specific organisational assignments or mathematical / quantitative analyses.
You conclude any contracts with external specialists directly. Therefore, you can still take advantage of the economic resources and professional liability insurance of qualified consulting firms when I serve as your specialist project manager.
Examples of successful projects
- Legal management of a large real estate investment in the United States
- Assessment and to some extent design of innovative capital investments with due regard to financial accounting law and insurance supervisory law aspects
- Proof of permissibility of an entirely new dividend payment model in Germany and its implementation
- Incorporation of risks arising from a company’s gold trading into the risk assessment system of a bank for the first time
- Negotiation of several syndicated revolving credit facilities (international framework loan agreements)
- Conducting a wide variety of judicial proceedings in France aimed at rescuing a purchased shareholding
- Representation of interests in an international legal dispute with several judicial and arbitration proceedings in Sweden and Germany
- Conducting a major court case involving prospectus liability through three courts of instance
- Defence of GmbH company shareholders in a protracted dispute between shareholders which was a threat to the company’s existence and which the initiator of the attack fought by all available means and in a highly aggressive manner
- Large claim for damages against an international financial services provider in an English-speaking foreign country (according to German law)
- Accompanying support for and negotiation of a complicated real estate conveyance in Eastern Europe (with an interpreter)