ADVANT Beiten

The firm: Established in 1990, ADVANT Beiten is an independent commercial law firm with around 250 lawyers, tax advisers, auditors, and accountants working from five German offices, as well as offices in Belgium, Russia and China. We are the German member firm of ADVANT, a strong European alliance of independent commercial law firms.

As one of the leading commercial law firms in Germany, ADVANT Beiten advises medium-sized companies, large corporations, banks, foundations, and public authorities on German and international commercial law. We work seamlessly with the ADVANT member firms and our global network of top law firms to ensure our clients receive the best advice and representation for all their legal needs in Germany and worldwide.

Areas of practice: ADVANT Beiten’s main areas of practice are agriculture; antitrust; associations/federations; banking, finance and insurance law; building and sectoral planning law; capital markets; charitable status; compliance; corporate and transformation law, law governing groups; data protection law; energy; environmental law; EU law; foundations; industrial property, copyright and advertising; information technology and telecommunication law; inheritance law/succession planning; labour and employment; litigation and arbitration; managing general meetings; medical law; mergers and acquisitions; patents and technology law; private equity and alternative investments; procurement; restructuring, recapitalisation and insolvency; sports law; state subsidies and state aid; tax law and white-collar crime.

In addition to its main practice areas, ADVANT Beiten provides comprehensive legal advice in all major industry sectors, such as administration of foundations; advertising agencies and public relations; assets, succession and foundations; automotive; chemical and pharmaceutical industry, medical technology; defence and security; energy; family offices; food and beverage; games; healthcare; hotels and leisure; information technology, telecommunication, logistics, media, music, entertainment and culture, publishing; non-profit organisations; public business law; real estate; start-ups/venture capital.