Dr Koch's completed projects in corporate law as well as finance and capital markets law in recent years include inter alia:

• Advising on numerous major mandates relating to capital market and corporate law, e.g. in questions of management board remuneration (Mannesmann case, advice on stock option plans, etc.), in corporate governance issues, the preparation of supervisory board meetings and supervisory board resolutions;
• The support of many large mandates in connection with capital measures, company agreements, measures according to the transformation law as well as structural measures according to "Holzmüller"/"Gelatine" principles
• Advising and supporting general meetings of MDAX companies
  Advising numerous corporate reorganizations in medium-sized companies and the public sector
• Advising listed companies on public offers under the German Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act (WpÜG) and on questions of securities trading law (WpHG)
• Advising a Swiss stock corporation listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on the preparation of a securities prospectus in accordance with the German Securities Prospectus Act (WpPG) after a capital increase, the subsequent approval process by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and the subsequent listing process for the new shares on which the prospectus is based;
• Advising a large British mezzanine investor on the recapitalization of a German group in crisis;
• Advice on the structuring and establishment of factoring companies;
• Advising international corporations on the introduction of European cash pool systems;
• Adaptation of the stock option plan of a listed US group to the requirements of German capital market law;
• Advising a listed company on the structuring of an innovative manager participation program (performance shares) for the management of an acquired group of companies;
• Advising a German bank on the structuring of collateral for the financing of a PPP project;
• Advice on stock corporation, capital market and financial law to a listed commodity group in crisis;
• Advising a listed real estate group on the search for and implementation of larger mezzanine financing;
• Advising a German investor on the acquisition of a larger life insurance portfolio in the USA;
• Advising a medium-sized international chemical company on the reorganization of the liabilities side;
• Advising a major German city on the negotiation and successful conclusion of a settlement, which was very advantageous for the city, regarding a claim for damages under corporate law in the hundreds of millions of euros

Dr Koch's M&A experience includes, but is not limited to, the following completed headline deals:

• Sale of the lighting technology division by Vossloh AG to Matsushita Electric Works. ltd (2002);
• Advising the Saban Capital Group, Inc. on the KirchMedia transaction (2002/2003);
• Acquisition of a minority stake in CompuGROUP Holding AG by General Atlantic Partners (2003);
• Acquisition of the major stake in Beiersdorf AG by Tchibo Holding AG, HGV and Troma as buyers and, in this context, planning and implementation of Beiersdorf AG’s public share buyback program (2003/2004) (www.juve.de);
• Sale of the significant shareholding in TUI AG by WestLB AG (2004) (www.juve.de);
• First management buyout of the Maredo Group (2005) (www.juve.de);
• Acquisition of the Homann Group by IFR (2007) (www.juve.de);
• Second management buyout of the Maredo Group (2008);
• Advising the supervisory board of a listed German stock corporation as a target company in a public takeover (2013 / 2014);
• Advice to Principia S.A. on the sale of a real estate portfolio of around 1,300 residential units to TAG Immobilien AG (2015 / 2016);
• Advising the French private equity investor Ardian on the public takeover of the listed SQS Software Quality Systems AG (2017 / 2018) (www.juve.de);
• Advising the listed Funkwerk AG as a strategic investor on the acquisition of a shareholding in the listed euromicron AG (2019) (www.lto.de)

• Schmalenbach Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e.V.
• Bundesverband deutscher Volks- und Betriebswirte e.V.
• Gesellschaftsrechtliche Vereinigung - wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht (VGR) e.V.
• DIS Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit e. V. (www.disarb.org)