Dr. Bernhard König

Personal Facts

• Born in 1954 in Paderborn 
• Studies of law at the University of Münster 
• First state bar exam 1979 
• Legal clerkship at the Regional Court Paderborn 
• Second state bar exam 1983 
• Research assistant at the Chair for Civil Law and Labor Law at the University of Münster 1983 - 1985 
• Doctor of Laws (Dr. jur.) 1985 
• Member of staff for Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank 1986 - 1987 
• Bar admission 1987
• With the firm since 1987

Areas of specialization

Commercial and civil law

• Commercial agency law 
• Distribution agreements

Corporate and tax law

• Corporate and company disputes  
• D&O liability 
• Partnership agreements, affiliation agreements 
• Planning and supporting stock exchange listings and venture capital 
• Law regarding fiscal offences 
• Corporate tax law, including procedural tax law 
• Company conversions, structural changes of companies

Protection of industrial property rights and competition law

• Anti-trust law (including EU block exemption regulations)

Conversion law

• Split,  consolidation, restructuring, contribution, merger

M&A

• Management buy-out (MBO) and management buy-in (MBI) 
• Consolidation & acquisition 
  
• Due diligence (civil and tax law) 
• Establishing contact with brokers, investment companies, banks and potential contractual partners 
• Contract performance 
• Contract negotiations and draft contracts

Labor law

• Employment contracts, termination contracts 
• Recruitment advice  
• Industrial constitution and codetermination law, including negotiations with works councils and unions 
• Judicial and extra-judicial representation in labor law disputes 
• Management agreements 
• Balance of interests and social compensation plans 
• Employee profit-sharing schemes

Publications

• Befristete Arbeitsverträge im Hochschulbereich, 
  jur. Diss., Münster 1985

Contributions to books

• Das gesellschaftsrechtliche Mandat, Arens/Tepper, 1. Auflage, 2007
  Kapitel 3, S. 341 ff.
  § 13 Haftung der Geschäftsführungs- und Vertretungsorgane

Memberships 

• Deutscher Anwaltverein  
• Deutscher Juristentag