Duties of Directors under German Law – M&A/Buyers perspective DAJV-Fachgruppentag: Fachgruppe M&A - Session I Rechtsanwalt Dr. Nikolaos Paschos, LL.M.

Slides:



Advertisements
Ähnliche Präsentationen
Titel der Präsentation The consequences of bribery Who has the standing to sue? 2009 Annual Meeting of the International Distribution Institute Dr. Stephan.
Advertisements

R. Zankl – Ch. Oelschlegel – M. Schüler – M. Karg – H. Obermayer R. Gottanka – F. Rösch – P. Keidler – A. Spangler th Expert Meeting Business.
Scenario Overview – 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
Scenario Overview – 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
Scenario Overview – 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
Serial Number Management SAP Best Practices Baseline Package
Time Recording SAP Best Practices Baseline package
Scenario Overview – 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
Scenario Overview – 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
Segment Reporting SAP Best Practices Baseline Package
Stock Transfer without Delivery SAP Best Practices Baseline Package
Invoice Verification SAP Best Practices for Retail (US)
Return to Vendor SAP Best Practices Baseline Package
Scenario Overview – 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
Time Processing – Cross Application Timesheet (CATS) with Funds or Grants Management (984) SAP Best Practices.
Scenario Overview – 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
Scenario Overview – 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
Foreign Trade Export Procedure SAP Best Practices Baseline Package
Revenue Recognition Processing
SAP Best Practices Canada
Lead Management SAP Best Practices for CRM
Scenario Overview – 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
Sales Processing using Third Party (without Shipping Notification) SAP Best Practices Baseline Package SAP Best Practices.
Procurement Contract SAP Best Practices Baseline Package
Lean Campaign Management SAP Best Practices for CRM
Scenario Overview – 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
Scenario Overview – 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
Internal Maintenance SAP Best Practices Baseline Package
Scenario Overview – 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
Internal Order R&D Actual SAP Best Practices Baseline Package
Scenario Overview – 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
Scenario Overview – 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
External Procurement of Services SAP Best Practices Baseline package
Credit Management SAP Best Practices Baseline Package
Scenario Overview – 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
Scenario Overview – 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
Credit Memo Processing SAP Best Practices Baseline package
General Ledger SAP Best Practices Baseline Package
Purchased Material Price Planning SAP Best Practices Baseline Package
Scenario Overview – 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
Reference and Simulation Costing SAP Best Practices Baseline Package
Scenario Overview 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
Scenario Overview – 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
Asset Accounting SAP Best Practices Baseline Package
International Developments in Accounting and Auditing - Challenges for the Profession - Georg Lanfermann Partner Department of Professional Practice Audit.
INSURANCE AUDIT FINANCIAL SERVICES Risk margins: An area of conflict between accounting and supervision Joachim Kölschbach Vienna, October 2005.
使用计算方案 估计工作量 SAP CRM Best Practices
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH Integrated Experts as interface between technical cooperation and the private sector – An Example.
Scenario Overview – 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
Adjektive Endungen von Frau Templeton.
Dr. Christoph Mecking The situation in Germany Expert Seminar 3
Antitrust Laws in Western Balkans – Following the EU Path? The right to an independent and impartial tribunal in EU competition law proceedings - the European.
Recht der Internationalen Organisationen -7- Internationale Gerichte.
INTAKT- Interkulturelle Berufsfelderkundungen als ausbildungsbezogene Lerneinheiten in berufsqualifizierenden Auslandspraktika DE/10/LLP-LdV/TOI/
Scenario Overview – 1 Purpose and Benefits: Purpose Benefits
WAS ES HEISST PILOT ZU SEIN - die öffentliche Wahrnehmung der allgemeinen Luftfahrt Axel Schwarz ÖSTERREICHISCHES KURATORIUM FÜR FLUGSICHERHEIT.
Confidential Sequans – GlobSys Project Multi-company issues Wolfgang Schaefer Project Manager – FS EMEA May 2009.
Premium AEROTEC S.R.L., Brasov Plant Noul spatiu de joaca tematic al Parcului Central Brasov construit de Premium AEROTEC cu sustinerea Primariei Brasov.
Relativpronomen / Relativsätze:
FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FÜR ÖFFENTLICHE VERWALTUNG BEI DER DEUTSCHEN HOCHSCHULE FÜR VERWALTUNGSWISSENSCHAFTEN SPEYER Dr. Sonja Bugdahn 1 Can New Regulators.
Negation is when you dont have or dont do something.
Relativpronomen / Relativsätze:
Auditors report Marianne Grove Ditlevsen Aarhus School of Business Tartu 2000.
Internal Order R&D Planning SAP Best Practices Baseline Package
Lehrstuhl für Steuerrecht und Öffentliches Recht Prof. Dr. Roland Ismer MSc Econ. (LSE)/Prof. Dr. Klaus Meßerschmidt Grundlagen Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht.
Negating German Sentences
Adjective Endings Nominative & Accusative Cases describing auf deutsch The information contained in this document may not be duplicated or distributed.
sample for a picture in the title slide
© Handwerkskammer für München und Oberbayern, Max-Joseph-Straße 4, München Dietmar Schneider Foreign Trade Department of the Chamber of Trade and.
Unabhängiger Monitoringausschuss zur Umsetzung der UN-Konvention über die Rechte von Menschen mit Behinderungen MonitoringAusschuss.at Monitoring the UN.
 Präsentation transkript:

Duties of Directors under German Law – M&A/Buyers perspective DAJV-Fachgruppentag: Fachgruppe M&A - Session I Rechtsanwalt Dr. Nikolaos Paschos, LL.M. Linklaters LLP, Düsseldorf 1 March 2012

1 Duties of Directors under German Law – M&A/Buyers perspective (Overview) >No specific legal provisions for directors duties in M&A context Exceptions: Listed Acquiror/Target(Securities Trading Act), Listed Target (Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act), Transformational M&A (Transformation Act) >General obligations of corporate directors apply Duty to comply with the laws Duty of care: To apply the diligence of a prudent and conscientious businessman Duty of loyalty >Safe harbour: Business Judgment Rule (BJR) Directors shall not be deemed to have violated duty of care if, at the time of taking an (1) entrepreneurial decision, they had good reason to assume that they were acting on the basis of (2) adequate information (3) for the benefit of the company (and (4) without any conflicts of interest)

2 Duties of Directors under German Law – M&A/Buyers perspective (General/Specific Duties) >Derivation of general duties of corporate directors in the context of an acquisition from general obligations, e.g. Acquisition has to be covered by the purpose clause in the articles of association (no ultra-vires transaction) Necessary corporate bodies have to be involved (supervisory board, shareholders meeting) Duty to diligently structure and execute transaction: As to transaction type, acquisition financing, documentation, post-acquisition integration, etc. >Specific duty: Due diligence review Even though no strict obligation, in any transaction that is of some importance, BJR may only be invoked if prior due diligence review was conducted Scope and depth depend on importance and economical consequences for the buyer, complexity of target/transaction and available timeframe, etc.

3 Duties of Directors under German Law – M&A/Buyers perspective (General/Specific Duties) >Due diligence review – Expert advice (BGH NZG 2007, 545 and NZG 2011, 1271 – ISION) Duty to obtain (external) expert advice: Directors have to compensate for missing expertise through expert advice – Guiding principles: Professional qualification of expert (internal vs. external, complexity of matter) Independence of expert (internal vs. external, prior involvement of expert) Reliance on expert advice Duty to properly brief expert Plausibility check: Directors have to conduct a plausibility check of the experts advice (generally requires expert advice in written or permanently established form)

4 Linklaters LLP Dr. Nikolaos Paschos, LL.M. Königsallee Düsseldorf Postfach Düsseldorf Tel: (+49) Fax: (+49) Linklaters ist seit dem 1. Mai 2007 eine Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) englischen Rechts. Die Bezugnahme auf Linklaters in diesem Dokument meint Linklaters LLP und ggf. verbundene Gesellschaften weltweit. Linklaters LLP ist eine in England und Wales unter OC registrierte Limited Liability Partnership, die als Anwaltskanzlei durch die Solicitors Regulation Authority zugelassen ist und deren Bestimmungen unterliegt. Der Begriff "Partner" bezeichnet in Bezug auf die Linklaters LLP Gesellschafter sowie Mitarbeiter der LLP oder der mit ihr verbundenen Kanzleien oder sonstigen Gesellschaften mit entsprechender Position und Qualifikation. Eine Liste der Namen der Gesellschafter der Linklaters LLP und der Personen, die zwar nicht Gesellschafter sind, aber als Partner bezeichnet werden, sowie ihrer jeweiligen fachlichen Qualifikation steht am eingetragenen Sitz der Firma in One Silk Street, London EC2Y 8HQ, England, oder unter zur Verfügung. Bei diesen Personen handelt es sich um deutsche oder ausländische Rechtsanwälte, die an ihrem jeweiligen Standort als nationale, europäische oder ausländische Anwälte registriert sind. Wichtige Informationen bezüglich unserer aufsichtsrechtlichen Stellung finden Sie unter Bitte beachten Sie, dass die in diesem Dokument enthaltenen Angaben zu Honorarvereinbarungen, Mandanten und Referenzen sowie die Beschreibungen der Beratungstätigkeit vertrauliche Informationen von Linklaters sind und es für einen Zeitraum von vier Jahren ab dem Datum dieses Dokumentes bleiben.