Banking, Capital Markets and Insurance: 

Caemmerer Lenz / Lenz Caemmerer has twenty years of experience in providing legal counsel to banks and credit institutes across all sectors. In today’s environment, the banking and capital market segments are subject not only to increasingly complex rules and regulations, which are increasingly interfused with Europe-an law, but also to rapid developments in the jurisprudence promulgated by the highest courts. With our highly specialized practices located across offices, we advise and represent banks and Bausparkassen supraregional.

Business Enterprises and Entrepreneurs: 

We represent a diverse array of companies, including major entities and corporate groups. We understand companies and corporate groups. All the same, we don’t perceive ourselves as corporate lawyers – entrepreneurs are at the heart of everything we do.

For you, as an entrepreneur, your company is at the heart of everything you do. For us – at your side – it’s at ours too. But the focus is also on you – as the owner or as family owners of your company. More often than not, companies are inseparable from their owners – the interests of both must be brought into alignment. It’s therefore important to us that we know what you do, how you do what you do, and why you do it.  We’re supposed to be vigorously enthusiastic about your entrepreneurial aspirations. We want to be as vigorously enthusiastic about your company as you are and to be inspired by the plans you have for your life and by the work you’ve dedicated your life to. That’s why we need to know strategy, philosophy, what ideas and wants there are – not only yours, but also those of your partner and your family.

But the most important things to you as an entrepreneur are reliable and resilient legal structures. Our corporate working group will stand at your side, from the day your company is incorporated to the day you sell it. And we’ll be at your side whenever you acquire new companies or enter into joint venture agreements – and of course ready with advice on any of the affiliated questions regarding corporate acquisition and project financing. If it is time to set up or structure things differently, we’ll provide the help you need to change the legal form of your company, or to restructure it. Compliance within your company is as much a matter of course for us as advising governing boards, regardless of the legal form your company has or the industry in which you do business.

We want to preserve the values you have created. In our work, we also take special care to facilitate transitions from one generation to the next. Providing advice on succession matters has been part and parcel of our entrepreneur services for years now. We combine this with tailored advice regarding your company’s assets and how to safeguard them.

Construction and Real Estate: 

Our various practices’ attorneys, versed in all things real estate and assembled based on the mandate’s needs and requirements, will provide you with competent and results-oriented counsel regarding all questions of

• private construction and architecture/engineering law,
• public construction law

What is more, we’re there for your

• real estate transactions,
• project developments

and, as such, we are obviously the right choice to handle the particularities surrounding your commercial leasing matters.

Family Law, Inheritance and Estates: 

We focus on providing tailored advice and representation to our clients regardless of where they find themselves in life. To a great extent, our engagements  consist of drafting prenuptial agreements, divorce settlements, wills and testaments, and inheritance agreements. Anticipating succession is an indispensable instrument designed to safeguard family assets in sustainable fashion, especially in view of the tax implications that may result from the transfer of decedent assets or parts thereof.

In addition to estate planning, we provide our clients with the support they need once a case of succession is triggered: e.g., regarding such issues as renouncements, will and testament contestations, executions, heir liability, and, of course, inheritance disputes. We also handle all hostile disputes, whether they arise during a separation, during a divorce, or as a part of the assertion of inheritance claims – such as forced heirship claims.

International: 

The globalization of society is leading to more and more cross-border contacts on both the personal and the business levels. Baden-Wurttemberg has a strong export industry, which maintains commercial relationships the world over. We advise on and accompany our clients’ international business ventures both inside and outside the European Union. We assist our foreign clients in gaining business contacts, incorporating or organizing corporate entities, making investments, and entering into joint ventures; we even handle litigation for them in Germany.

Since 1990, we have been a member of the Eurojuris International network (www.eurojuris.net)  – whose members number more than 650 law firms and more than 5,000 attorneys located in 40 different countries – as a means to empower our clients: with us, they can effectively engage experts to enforce their claims in other jurisdictions.

We are especially well-versed in the German-Swiss legal landscape on account of the inter-office synergies harnessed during the tight-knit collaboration with our colleagues in Switzerland.

We speak:

German, English, French, Spanish, and Italian

IP, IT and Data Protection: 

The spectrum of our legal advice for business enterprises includes

• utility model law;
• design law, including European design law;
• the law governing trademarks and other marks, including European and international trademark law, handling proceedings before the German Patent and Trademark Office, EUIPO, and WIPO, and filing, monitoring, managing, and accompanying trademarks and trademark portfolios;
• the law against unfair competition – e.g., assistance with warnings, filing for injunctive relief, interim legal protection, protective writs – and advertising material reviews, product designations, violations of the German Drug Advertising Act and the German Medicinal Products Act;
• press law;
• copyright law, including employee invention law;
• antitrust law.

Having combined forces , we have a cross-border trademark practice and can advise accordingly.

Our IT practice gladly advises on all questions of information technology law.

• information technology contract law, including the drafting of individual agreements and general terms and conditions: e.g., software development agreements, IT project agreements, software and hardware maintenance or general maintenance agreements;
• electronic commerce law, including the drafting of terms of use (e.g., preparing terms of use and general terms and conditions for apps) and the legal framework for online shops;
• foundations of intellectual property law regarding information technologies, relations to trademark law in general and domain law in particular;
• public procurement of information technology services related to European and German antitrust law/EBV-IT agreements;
• internet and the law (imprint, data protection policy, internet platform terms of use, website content liability, social media);
• conducting IT due diligence reviews.

A special focus of our team in IT law is on consulting in the area of data protection law. This encompasses

• legal support in implementing the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation;
• employee data protection in compliance with the new German Federal Data Protection Act;
• corporate policies and works agreements: e.g., governing private Internet and email use or private use of smart phones within enterprises (BYOD, COPE);
• preparing and negotiating data processing agreements;
• drafting data protection policies for websites.

CL Compliance und Datenschutz GmbH & Co. KG, a CL Group company, is also gladly at your disposal as an external data protection officer or corporate consultant

Additional information

Life Sciences and Health: 

Health is an issue that concerns us all. We aim to serve not only health care institutions such as hospitals and rehabilitation or nursing facilities, but also general practitioners and medical practices, non-medical practitioners, pharmacies, companies in the pharmaceutical and medical technology sectors, and the wellness and fitness industries.

Our motto is: optimal legal solutions through synergism. As a service provider in the healthcare sector, we advise on issues such as professional rules and regulations; medical malpractice liability; drug advertising, practice formations/sales; insurance; panel doctors; and licensing, distribution, and trademark law for medical devices.

Our experts stand with you in your transactions (buying or selling practices or investments) and will provide the legal counsel you need regarding cooperative ventures and other strategic business decisions. While organizing a medical practice will certainly require advice on matters of medical law, it will also necessarily involve questions of corporate, labor and even inheritance or family law. What is more, administrative law issues are gaining in relevance for work done with local and funding authorities regarding new and restructured practices. We advise hospitals on matters of organization, on negotiations with health insurance companies, on hospital planning matters, and financing. Our services also cover hospitals’ cooperative ventures with other service providers and include drafting locum tenens doctor agreements and attending physician models.

We have custom teams to handle your matters and are at your side as your “in-house counsel”.

Litigation and Arbitration: 

With our extensive experience in civil procedure, we accompany our clients in all instances of their trials before civil and commercial courts. We are also active in arbitration; we represent our clients as party representatives in arbitration tribunals subject both to the Swiss Rules of Arbitration and to the ICC Arbitration Rules, and we can even be retained to act as arbitrators ourselves. In debt collection and bankruptcy law, we aid our clients in collection efforts, the enforcement of foreign judgments, and estate and bankruptcy proceedings.

Notarial Services: 

On the estate planning side, we notarize prenuptial and inheritance agreements as well as wills and testaments. On the corporate and foundation law side, we advise our clients on incorporations, equity or capital changes, and amending articles of association and incorporation. We also notarize purchase and sale agreements and the creation and modification of promissory notes for properties in the Canton of Basel-Stadt. All our notaries are also attorneys and are, for this very reason, able to advise you comprehensively in these areas.

Public Sector: 

We advise and represent clients in all segments of the public sector. Part and parcel of this sector are public authorities including, but not limited to, municipalities, in connection with all matters of zoning, environmental, and municipal law. We are a one-stop shop from which public authorities can obtain comprehensive advice regarding the execution of their powers.

On the business side, too, we advise companies and entities in connection with the implementation of any projects they may have including, but not limited to, regarding land use, zoning, and approval proceedings for emissions control.

On the personal side, we also represent private individuals and citizens in the enforcement of their public-law claims in whatever area of public law they are seeking enforcement, especially in building permit and supervisory proceedings. But we are also committed to safeguarding our clients’ interests against cumbersome administrative acts imposed by public authorities.

Taxes: 

We assist our clients in questions of Swiss and international tax law and develop creative, forward-looking, and sustainable solutions tailored to their needs. We advise both national and international companies and private individuals. In addition to tax planning and advice, our services encompass support in appeal proceedings, post-tax-assessment proceedings, and fiscal penalties proceedings.

Work and profession: 

Our highly experienced attorneys specializing in labor law offer sound and results-oriented counsel, with consonance and sophistication, in all things labor, services, and beyond to the related area of social security law.

Our core competencies include, but are not limited to,

• accompanying corporate transactions, restructurings and reorganizations, including questions of bankruptcy law;
• advising on the planning and implementation of outsourcing measures;
• supporting human resources departments and management in their day-to-day labor tasks (drafting terms and conditions of employment, rescission agreements, terminations, addressing bogus self-employment and temporary employment matters, employee data protection, compliance, etc.);
• advising on employment and rescission agreements with executives, board members, and managing directors;
• accompanying collaborative efforts with works councils;
• collective bargaining law, including, but not limited to, the execution of internal collective bar-gaining agreements;
• nationwide in-court and out-of-court representation.