Competence
Litigation & Arbitration
SZA Schilling Zutt & Anschütz handles litigious and contentious mandates, both before or-dinary courts and institutional or ad hoc arbitration tribunals, in Germany and abroad.
Our activities are not limited to litigation or arbitration in itself, but include dispute prevention and dispute resolution (mediation, ADR), as well as the best possible preparation of arbitration or court proceedings and the subsequent enforcement of rights.
Range of services
Corporate Litigation / Arbitration
- Disputes related to corporate reolutions (actions for avoidance or nullity and positive actions for the declaration of the validity of resolutions)
- Directors' and officers' liability
- Release proceedings (Freigabeverfahren)
- Appraisal proceedings (Spruchverfahren)
Commercial litigation / arbitration
- Product liability and product safety
- Disputes in connection with complex sets of contracts
- Commercial large-scale and mass proceedings (for damages)
- Commercial disputes
- Banking disputes
- Insurance and reinsurance disputes
- Disputes in connection with insolvency and restructuring
- Proceedings for interim relief/injunctions
- Mediation / ADR
Antitrust disputes
Regulation / administrative disputes
Client mandates (selection)
- Wirecard Insolvency Administrator, e.g. in litigation against former auditor EY and against institutional investors
- Bayer in defence against investor claims relation to the Monsanto Takeover
- Diebold Nixdorf as Lead Counsel in several appraisal proceedings
- Audi in defence against claims related to the diesel emission issue
- Knaus Tabbert in defence against claims related to the diesel emission issue
- Hirschvogel in defence against Thyssenkrupp
- International Chemical Manufacturer in defence against claims related to severe industrial accident in Germany
Thinktank
Federal Court of Justice on the validity of Discretionary Termination Clauses in Leaver Schemes for Management Participation Programs
Federal Court clarifies when discretionary termination clauses in management participation programs are legally valid.