The Legal 500

The firm

Marccus Partners is an international firm of lawyers and tax advisors with European roots. The firm values and promotes professional excellence, responsibility, integrity and responsiveness and has been established as a strong and dynamic partnership which is able to deal with complex transactions and litigation and provides effective advice in an environment of fast-evolving laws and regulations.

The firm’s analysis is based largely on experience, but also on seamless teamwork between professionals from different cultures. Marccus Partners’ core practice areas are: corporate/M&A, banking and finance, real estate, restructuring and insolvency, labour and pensions, litigation and arbitration, and tax.

Areas of practice

In Germany, Marccus Partners’ corporate and M&A department is a specialist in structuring and implementing cross-border transactions throughout Europe and globally. It provides clients with legal and tax services on a broad range of business transactions, such as share and asset acquisitions, disposals, mergers, joint ventures, strategic alliances and equity investments. The M&A practice includes private equity and venture capital transactions. The firm regularly advises on leveraged and management buyouts, as well as fund structuring. Sector-specific expertise covers the electro industry, construction, automotive, IT, the food industry and renewable energy.

The banking and finance practice advises on services ranging from global loans via syndicated lending to acquisition, real estate and project finance.

Real estate transactions have legal, notarial, tax and administrative implications and are increasingly multinational, thus necessitating international expertise. Marccus Partners provides its clients with advice from the acquisition and financing of the land purchase through the construction phase or the improvements on the property and, finally, its disposal. The firm’s clients include private and public corporations and partnerships that purchase, sell, construct and invest in real estate.

On restructuring and insolvency issues, Marccus Partners advises management, stakeholders, banks, bondholders or new investors. Marccus Partners acts as mediator and co-ordinator of banking pools. Insolvency specialists also team up with experts in labour, insourcing, corporate and tax law, and work in close co-operation with tax advisors. The firm has particular experience in distressed M&A.

Marccus Partners’ expertise in labour and pensions encompasses corporate reorganisations, implementation and downsizings, collective bargaining and analysis of employment-related risk exposures. The firm’s labour experience covers various areas of practice, including planning, assistance and advice, compliance, audits and training seminars.

Marccus Partners’ dispute resolution practice covers traditional domestic litigation, international arbitration and mediation, as well as other forms of alternative dispute resolution. The firm’s experience includes proceedings in accordance with national and international court and arbitral rules.

Marccus Partners’ commercial law department regularly advises on supply as well as agency and distribution, intellectual property rights and information technology. The firm has special expertise in the licensing and transfer of technology.

Marccus Partners’ tax team provides international expertise and enables worldwide tax optimisation strategies. The corporate tax services include advice on: transactions, transfer pricing, private equity and venture capital funds, indirect taxes/VAT and EU tax law. Furthermore, the tax department offers services for individual taxation of high-net-worth individuals and expatriates. Clients also include professional superannuation funds and incorporated public law institutions.