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OUR LAW FIRM

von ILSEMANN | HELMS is a boutique law firm located in Hamburg’s city centre specialized in corporate and commercial law consultancy of national as well as international companies. Based on their consulting experience gained in leading international law firms and law boutiques von ILSEMANN | HELMS knows the legal requirements and challenges of the modern business world in particular with respect to small and medium-sized enterprises.

von ILSEMANN | HELMS represents the highest standard of consulting quality in connection with personal engagement for a target-oriented and efficient realization of the clients’ goals pursued with creativity, entrepreneurial thinking and passion.

With a global network of highly qualified legal experts and consultants in other fields von ILSEMANN | HELMS is able to offer its clients custom-tailored and multidisciplinary solutions. As advisor as well as independent and reliable contact partner von ILSEMANN | HELMS is available for its clients at any time.

EXPERTISE

von ILSEMANN | HELMS combines an extensive consulting expertise in all areas of corporate and commercial law including & transactions and litigation before state courts as well as courts of arbitration.

CORPORATE / M&A

Sale and Purchase of companies and shareholdings
Cooperations (Joint Ventures)
Legal Due Diligence
Company foundations and corporate structuring
Transformations and restructuring (mergers, change in legal form etc.)
Capital measures
Shareholder meetings and shareholder resolutions
Shareholder agreements and contracts of participation
Startups
Management participations (MBO / MBI)
Financing rounds
Shareholder disputes
Market entry of foreign companies in Germany
Company and corporate succession

COMMERCIAL

Full service of an (outsourced) legal department
All sorts of business contracts and agreements, in particular (framework) purchase and supply contracts, work and service agreements, machine/plant engineering and construction contracts, research and development agreements, IT agreements
General terms and conditions (domestic and cross-border)
International supply and service agreements (including CISG, UNIDROIT principles, Orgalime, Incoterms etc.)
Warranty rights and liability law, product and manufacturer’s liability
Right of sale, in particular with respect to commercial agents and authorized dealers
Digitalization (including IoT/M2M), webshop support
Tenancy law (commercial premises)
Contract management, standardization of legally relevant business processes
Trainings (in-house, at our offices, online)
Litigation (before state courts as well as courts of arbitration)

Compliance / Legal-QM

Optimisation and standardisation of business processes focusing on legality combined with efficiency and practicability
Assignment of duties and delegation of authority
Verification and optimisation of Compliance risks, focused individually or within a Compliance (and/or Risk) Management System
Compliance Management under consideration of Quality Management and Controlling
Prevention of and guidance in case of violations of Compliance
Manager/director liability, D&O insurance issues
Trainings (in-house, at our offices, online)
Contract management
“Legal cadaster” (inventory of legally relevant provisions)
Legal-QM (legal elements of Quality Management)
Support in the context of (re-)certification of CM-/QM Management Systems

CORPORATE / M&A

Sale and Purchase of companies and shareholdings
Cooperations (Joint Ventures)
Legal Due Diligence
Company foundations and corporate structuring
Transformations and restructuring (mergers, change in legal form etc.)
Capital measures
Shareholder meetings and shareholder resolutions
Shareholder agreements and contracts of participation
Startups
Management participations (MBO / MBI)
Financing rounds
Shareholder disputes
Market entry of foreign companies in Germany
Company and corporate succession

COMMERCIAL

Full service of an (outsourced) legal department
All sorts of business contracts and agreements, in particular (framework) purchase and supply contracts, work and service agreements, machine/plant engineering and construction contracts, research and development agreements, IT agreements
General terms and conditions (domestic and cross-border)
International supply and service agreements (including CISG, UNIDROIT principles, Orgalime, Incoterms etc.)
Warranty rights and liability law, product and manufacturer’s liability
Right of sale, in particular with respect to commercial agents and authorized dealers
Digitalization (including IoT/M2M), webshop support
Tenancy law (commercial premises)
Contract management, standardization of legally relevant business processes
Trainings (in-house, at our offices, online)
Litigation (before state courts as well as courts of arbitration)

Compliance / Legal-QM

Optimisation and standardisation of business processes focusing on legality combined with efficiency and practicability
Assignment of duties and delegation of authority
Verification and optimisation of Compliance risks, focused individually or within a Compliance (and/or Risk) Management System
Compliance Management under consideration of Quality Management and Controlling
Prevention of and guidance in case of violations of Compliance
Manager/director liability, D&O insurance issues
Trainings (in-house, at our offices, online)
Contract management
“Legal cadaster” (inventory of legally relevant provisions)
Legal-QM (legal elements of Quality Management)
Support in the context of (re-)certification of CM-/QM Management Systems

LAWYERS

Julian von Ilsemann

Julian von Ilsemann’s practice is in the fields of corporate law and & transactions. He advises domestic and foreign companies and entrepreneurs on company formations and transformation measures as well as on shareholders’ meetings and capital measures. Furthermore, Julian von Ilsemann’s practice focuses on the sale and purchase of companies and participations a well as on corporate co-operations (Joint Ventures). Julian von Ilsemann was admitted to the bar in 2006. After completing his studies and legal training in Hamburg, The Hague and Cape Town, he initially worked as a lawyer at the Hamburg office of the international law firm White & Case LLP (Corporate/& practice group) from 2006. In 2010, he joined an international boutique law firm, where he was responsible for the Corporate/M&A practice group as an equity partner from 2015 to 2019 before founding von ILSEMANN | HELMS in 2019.

T +49 40 228589992
M +49 151 53850499
jvi(at)vonilsemann-helms.de

Gunnar Helms, LL.M. (Durham)

Gunnar Helms primarily advises small and medium-sized companies in all legal matters of their daily business operations. Hereby he possesses particular expertise because of his experience as an in-house counsel (Secondment at Siemens AG, Mechanical Drives, today Flender GmbH). Also, Gunnar Helms represents companies during disputes before state courts and courts of arbitration and advises in the area of company organisation, especially under consideration of the requirements for Compliance and Quality Management Systems. Further, he advises in the field of M&A, was involved in numerous notable M&A transactions (domestic and cross-border) and takes care of the clients’ corporate housekeeping. Gunnar Helms is consistently active as a speaker and i.a. member of the German Society for Quality (DGQ) as well as of the International Association of Controllers (ICV) and there he is head of the work group “Compliance-Management & Controlling”. Since 2004 Gunnar Helms is practicing law, since 2007 as a fully qualified German lawyer. After studying law in Hamburg and Durham (England, LL.M.) with emphasis in commercial and corporate law, including postgraduate degree programs in business and European law at the universities of Hamburg and Durham, he worked as a lawyer for an international boutique law firm (spin-off from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer). As an equity partner since 2014 he there was in charge of the Commercial law practice group before founding von ILSEMANN | HELMS in 2019.

T +49 40 228589998
M +49 170 7692876
gh(at)vonilsemann-helms.de

Dr. Arne Vogel

Dr. Arne Vogel mainly advises medium-sized clients from Germany and abroad in the areas of corporate transactions (M&A), commercial and corporate law and insolvency law. The focus of his work is on M&A transactions. Here he regularly advises on the purchase and sale of businesses or company shares as well as on reorganisational measures such as mergers, spin-offs and changes of legal form. He also advises on the formation and liquidation of companies as well as on corporate law issues in day-to-day business. Furthermore, he advises on the liability of members of executive and supervisory boards. In the area of commercial law, Dr Arne Vogel drafts complex supply, work and service contracts. He also represents his clients both in and out of court in the resolution of legal disputes in the areas of commercial and corporate law.

Dr. Arne Vogel was admitted to the bar in Hamburg, Germany in 2008 and worked in the corporate / M&A department of a major international law firm in Hamburg until 2013. From 2014, he worked for medium-sized commercial law firms (since 2018 as a partner) before joining von ILSEMANN | HELMS in spring 2023. Dr Arne Vogel completed his doctorate on the liability of members of the executive and supervisory boards of listed companies.

T +49 40 228589997
M +49 163 4801632
av(at)vonilsemann-helms.de

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