BRANDI lawyers.
Dr. Robert Lepsien
About me
- Born in 1966
- Studied law at the University of Münster and the University of Lausanne
- Bar admission in 1997, and with the law firm since then
- Doctor of Laws (Dr. jur.) 2001
- Certified Specialized Attorney in Labor and Employment Law since 2001
- Appointment as notary in 2012
- Certified Specialized Attorney in Commercial and Corporate Law since 2012
- Certified Specialized Attorney in Inheritance Law since 2022
Competence
Labor law
- Employee data protection
- Employment agreements
- Termination agreements
- Fixed-term employment
- Plant closures and restructuring
- Works agreements
- Industrial constitution law and collective bargaining law (including negotiations with works councils and trade unions)
- Due diligence
- Conciliation board procedures
- Judicial and out-of-court representation in labor law disputes
- Reconciliation of interests and social plan
- Church labor law
- Termination including mass layoffs
- Legal relationships of managing directors and board members
- Co-determination
- Restructuring of companies and businesses
Corporate law/M&A
Incorporation
- Selection of the legal form (corporate law and tax law)
- Drafting of the partnership agreement, further agreements between the partners
- German stock corporation and private company law (e.g. OHG, KG, GmbH & Co. KG, GmbH, AG, KGaA, eG)
- Trust
- Voting trust, pool and consortium agreements
Life and growth of the company
- Conduction of general meetings and partners' meetings
- Participation rights, silent partnerships (typical, atypical)
- Subsidiaries (foundation and acquisition, foreign subsidiaries)
- Partnership agreements, affiliation agreements (in particular control and profit and loss transfer agreements)
- Takeover of other companies (M&A)
Restructuring
- Consolidation, split, restructuring, contribution, merger
- National and international holding structures
Disputes within the company
- Disputes between the partners, with members of bodies and with the company
- Representation of interests out of court (in particular in partners' meetings, general meetings, supervisory board, advisory board)
- Representation of interests in court
Company succession
- Entrepreneur's last wills
- Gifts, usufruct
- Foundation (charitable foundation, family foundation)
- Supervisory board, advisory board
- Execution of wills, administration of estates
- Sale of companies
- Estate settlements
Asset planning, succession, succession law
Succession law
- Design of last wills
- Revocation of a last will
- Contracts of inheritance (notarial)
- Withdrawal from a contract of inheritance
- Directions pertaining to legacies and conditions
- Prior and subsequent succession, also excepted prior succession
- Order of the execution of a will
- Will to the benefit of persons with disabilities, in need or overly indebted
- Provisions for the offsetting and balancing of gifts
- Renunciation of inheritance
- Renunciation to the compulsory portion
- Determination of the legal succession including spousal inheritance rights
- Acceptance and renunciation of the inheritance
- Contesting of the acceptance of an inheritance
- Liabilities of the heirs, obligations of the estate
- Contesting a will
- Interpretation of a will
- Compulsory portion regulations
- Obligation of the heir to furnish information
- Offsetting of gifts against the compulsory portion
- Request for the issuance of a certificate of inheritance
- Revocation of a certificate of inheritance
- Purchase of an inheritance, transfer of shares of an inheritance
Asset succession and company succession
- Succession planning
- Prevention of claims for compulsory portions
- Anticipated succession
- Enduring power of attorney
- Entrepreneur's last wills, testamentary and prenuptial of the entrepreneur
- Transfer agreements
- Agreements on the renunciation of the compulsory portion
- Lump sum provisions
Asset planning
- Legal structuring of (family-owned) companies
- Prenuptial agreements
Publications
Monographs
- Die Suspendierung eines Arbeitnehmers im unstreitigen Arbeitsverhältnis,
jur. Diss., Bielefeld 2001
Memberships
- Deutscher Anwaltverein
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Fachanwälte für Arbeitsrecht im Deutschen Anwaltsverein
- Lions Club International