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Distressed M&A, Financing and Corporate Advice

Companies, entrepreneurs and investors are facing serious disruptions in local and global economies. Globalized supply chains have proven to be instable in current crisis. Technical development and platform based businesses are forcing entire industries into disruptive reorganizational measures. Banks are reducing their risk exposure on a large scale.

SKYE PARTNERS and its cooperation partners will support you and your companies in facing these challenges, in restructuring your businesses, even in times and of crisis and eminent insolvency. We support you with the challenges of distressed financing, pre-and post insolvency M&A transactions, insolvency procedures and ongoing legal and strategic advice of the management in a distressed environment.

By employing our software tool MOET, we are in a position to assemble highly skilled and experienced teams to support your businesses and portfolios quickly and efficiently, wherever and whenever needed.

Our services comprise in particular:

Distressed M&A and Financing
Pre-and post insolvency corporate advice
Management counseling and risk management in facing insolvency
Preparation and administration of insolvency proceedings with a focuse on debtor in possession proceedings (Eigenverwaltung)
Corporate reorganizations and personel matters

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Private equity

Private equity investors are challenged by an increasingly competitive environment. Low interest rates have driven asset prices down. Fund spin-offs have increased the number of players. Private equity investors have to employ ever-more flexible and innovative financing solutions to conclude their transactions and acquire the best assets.

SKYE PARTNERS will help you achieve your objectives and adapt to an increasingly challenging economic and regulatory environment.

If you are an institutional investor, such as a buyout fund, venture capitalist, entrepreneur or angel investor, you will need consistent, reliable and swift access to multidisciplinary advisers all over the world in order to help you through the complexities of a transaction.

By using MOET, we deliver integrated domestic and global legal and tax services. Thinking ahead, we respond to your needs: no matter where and when you invest your private/institutional capital or establish a fund, our integrated team will help you achieve your goals.

Our practice and services include in particular:

Cross border M&A
Leveraged buyouts (MBO & MBI)
Management equity packages & rollovers
Employee incentive plans (VSOPs/ESOPs)
Leveraged financing
Post-closing integrations and restructurings
Corporate reorganizations (mergers/spin-offs etc.)

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Venture capital

In most industrial countries, venture capital plays a vital role in the development of innovative industries. Venture-backed technology companies and start-ups show substantially higher growth rates in disrupting industries, and in established and emerging markets around the world.

Having long-standing experience with start-ups, technology companies and disruptive industries, SKYE PARTNERS operates at the centre of technical innovation, business strategy, corporate finance and legal topics.

We regularly advise venture capitalists, angel investors, family offices and other institutional investors as well as corporate venture arms of large conglomerates concerning investments in technology companies.

If you are a founder, a technology company, a business angel or venture capital investor, make SKYE PARTNERS your “Go To Advisor“ to achieve your legal goals.

Through the use of MOET, our team is able to rely on an established global network of specialists and cooperation partners as well as venture capital funds and angel investors. We support talented companies gain access to the desired capital to develop their business.

Equally, our industry knowledge and the experience of completing numerous equity- and debt-based venture transactions provide added value to our venture capital clients far beyond mere legal advice.

Our practice and services include in particular:

VC (Seed/Series A-C) financing transactions
Corporate structurings (domestic and cross-border-like US flips)
IT/IP strategy and structuring advice
IP protection
Equity and employee incentive plans
Add-on acquisitions

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Strategic M&A

We advise on cross-border company acquisitions and mergers (private M&A) for our clients. We assist our clients through all stages of a transaction, including acquisitions, mergers and disposals, including carve-outs, strategic alliances, and joint venture advisory.

Our practice and services include in particular:

Pre-signing agreements (non-disclosure agreements, letters of intent etc.)
Due diligence
Negotiation of the whole transaction (SPA)
Preparation of signing and closing
post-signing advice with respect to carve-outs
Restructuring of post-closing measures

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Corporate Financing

Thanks to our close integration of private equity, venture capital and M&A, we offer tailored legal advice for your corporate financing structures.

Our advice covers the full range of financing structures with respect to small and midcap transactions including negotiating facility agreements, structure shareholder loans, convertible bonds and hybrid finance products such as mezzanine capital.

Against this background, we further advise (in particular in growth financing scenarios) on convertible debt notes, which are primarily used to enable start-ups to raise capital quickly and less expensively than typical bank loans.

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OUR EXPERTISE

Distressed M&A, Financing and Corporate Advice

Our services comprise in particular:

Private equity

Our practice and services include in particular:

Venture capital

Our practice and services include in particular:

Strategic M&A

Our practice and services include in particular:

Corporate Financing

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