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Expertise

LANA AP.MA is an independent international Law Firm based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. We provide comprehensive advice to corporate clients helping them to foresee and successfully address potential legal issues and disputes around the world. This means strategic legal solutions for domestic and international companies doing business overseas, as well as those facing legal disputes in foreign jurisdictions.

Services

LANA AP.MA is an independent international Law Firm based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. We provide comprehensive advice to corporate clients helping them to foresee and successfully address potential legal issues and disputes around the world. This means strategic legal solutions for domestic and international companies doing business overseas, as well as those facing legal disputes in foreign jurisdictions.

CORPORATE & M&A

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION & DISPUTE RESOLUTION

WHITE-COLLAR DEFENCE AND CORPORATE CRIME

TAX, PENSIONS, EMPLOMENT & INCENTIVES

COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE

RESTRUCTURING & INSOLVENCY

Frequently
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It always depends on the specific case we are talking about. Nevertheless, we can promise that you will not get an invoice before we have expressly informed you that up a certain point in time, our services are not complimentary anymore.

As lawyers and Officers of the Court we cannot promise or guarantee that we will be successful in your case.

As officers of the Court, we are strictly bound by client-lawyer confidentiality. That is: Your data is rock safe with us.

No, please feel free to speak the language you feel confident with, we will understand you and we will manage your legally globally, without you having to communicate with other individuals. In other words: We are happy to take the project lead if you want us to do that.

Corporate and M&A

We are a respected, highly experienced global Corporate and M&A practice. What makes us a highly respected international practices is our client base, the mandates we win, our industry expertise, as well as our reputation for creating value for clients and investing in relationships.

We advise clients on public and private M&A, disposals, demergers, joint ventures, restructurings, corporate governance and regulatory compliance, with a particular focus on complex, cross-border transactions. Our global network includes experts in antitrust/competition law, funds and investment management, insurance, private equity and public policy.

At LANA AP.MA, we understand the pivotal role complex transactions play in shaping businesses. Our clients trust us for the creative problem-solving and rapid decision-making that lie at the heart of our practice. We thrive on unravelling complexity and navigating challenging deal structures, whether in the public or private space.

Integrated transactional capabilities provide a seamless, comprehensive deal strategy, from deal structuring to equity and debt financing, while managing tax, antitrust and competition, foreign direct investment regulation, employment and regulatory hurdles as well as litigation risks. 

With deep industry knowledge and unrivalled cross-border experience in large, high-profile and often complex transactions, we empower our clients to make informed decisions, mitigate risks and seize opportunities.

Intellectual Property Law

We can offer our clients our practically applied Intellectual Property knowledge and expertise, as well as a deep understanding of the challenges involved with conducting a market leading, international business in a constantly evolving technological environment.

Our network of lawyers handling Intellectual Property work collaborate closely with our friendly antitrust experts in finding solutions to the issues that can arise from the tensions between the two areas of expertise.

Our network of Intellectual Property lawyers offer a breadth of experience in Intellectual Property transactional and advisory work, covering the full range of Intellectual Property subjects, in both domestic and international contexts. Like our network of IP disputes lawyers, most of our transactional and advisory Intellectual Property lawyers focus on specific sectors and bring both pure and applied legal knowledge to client projects.

We have extensive experience of strategizing, pursuing and defending Intellectual Property disputes in a wide range of forums. Our Intellectual Property team is used to dealing with technical and specific subject matter, and many of them focus on specific sectors, giving them an applied knowledge of how Intellectual Property is exploited in practice. We work together with colleagues and external local lawyers in other jurisdictions to ensure claims are pursued consistently and in the most appropriate forums.

If necessary, we will pursue and defend cases aggressively and effectively but are able to resolve a high percentage of disputes negotiated settlements.

International arbitration & dispute resolution

A global economy, diverging legal systems and increased cooperation amongst regulators presents companies with a wide array of legal challenges. We are well-positioned to advise on these issues and represent multinational clients in cross-border litigation, international arbitration and investigations.

Our global network provides an exceptional platform for handling major cross-border disputes and in recent years we have helped our clients to achieve success in some of the most complex international disputes and investigations.

We offer a seamless, integrated service across our network of offices for cross-border disputes and investigations, with expertise in individual jurisdictions but also an understanding of the interplay between different legal systems and regulations.

We are committed to resolving disputes as efficiently as possible and are focused on offering solutions that are practical and commercial. Our peers know that we are always prepared to proceed, however, and recognise our record in delivering results for clients in major litigation and arbitrations. Our credibility is also acknowledged by regulators and prosecutors, which assists with the effective resolution of investigations and other negotiations.

LANA AP.MA´s legal network also consists of specialist accountants and economists in all over the world who provide assistance and expertise on all financial aspects of litigation, arbitration and investigations. Assignments vary from ad hoc assistance on a specific financial issue to major investigations undertaken jointly with legal teams.

White-collar defence and corporate crime

Credibility and authority when you need it most: Globally active corporate groups turn to LANA AP.MA to help them manage corporate crime risk and respond to allegations, investigations and criminal prosecution. 

Our international  legal network of lawyers represents  businessmen and corporate groups during multijurisdictional investigations relating to allegations of price fixing, securities and commodities fraud, insider trading, bribery, sanctions violations, money laundering, accounting fraud and market manipulation, cyber hacks, tax evasion and terrorist financing.

We also manage simultaneous internal investigations in several countries. We co-ordinate global logistics, develop defence strategy across jurisdictions, assess tactics with relevant government regulators and prosecutors, and lead fact-finding and discovery efforts across international borders.  

Our global network of lawyers includes partners that have been former senior prosecutors in the US, UK, Continental Europe and Asia who work with experienced white-collar and criminal defence lawyers to give a sophisticated view of the risks our clients face and the options for addressing them. 

Tax, pensions, employment & incentives

Truly global practices featuring first-class contentious capability ensure that our tax, employment, incentives and pensions groups are experts in their respective disciplines.

We deliver commercial advice across the full spectrum of international and domestic tax issues and have unparalleled experience in advising on cross-border transactions. Our experienced employment, incentives and pensions specialists work with clients from a wide range of sectors to address local and cross-border issues.

Clients, ranging from global businesses to small enterprises, have come to trust and rely on the experience of our dedicated teams based across our network of offices. To help you keep on top of the risks and opportunities arising from changes in the law, we track and anticipate the latest legislative proposals in the jurisdictions that are important to your business.

Commercial Real Estate

LANA AP.MA is engaged in global commercial real estate transactions, especially with regards to Asia and the US.

As an also industry-based law firm, our global network of real estate attorneys utilize a multidisciplinary approach to offer clients expertise in public and private market joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions, financings and capital markets issuances, leasing, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, the structuring and formation of private equity funds, separate accounts and other real estate investment vehicles, complex restructurings of family-owned businesses and assets, and stadium development financing and other sports-related matters.

Restructuring & insolvency

We have a uniquely well-balanced practice acting for a broad range of market participants and stakeholders. The global network covers the full range of stressed and distressed situations, including balance sheet restructurings, debt and equity capital raising, secondary investments, liquidity management, distressed M&A, investigations, asset tracing, insolvency litigation, formal insolvency procedures and contingency planning.

Our Restructuring & Insolvency lawyers works closely across our network including colleagues in market leading finance, corporate, dispute resolution and regulatory practices, bringing to bear the firm’s wider experience and pre-eminence in a seamless R&I offering. Our ability to mobilise quickly large multi-specialised, multi-jurisdictional teams makes us exceptionally well positioned to navigate clients successfully through the most challenging situations and to assess all options to create and preserve value.

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