Christoph Lange helps foreign clients conduct and manage their businesses in the United States. This may entail the formation of companies or the creation of joint ventures, cooperations or strategic alliances. A major aspect of his practice and experience is the acquisition and disposition of business entities, business lines or portfolios of assets, be it in the form of negotiated acquisitions and dispositions, mergers, spin-offs or in the form of private equity investments, management buy-outs, leveraged buy-outs, auctions or acquisitions out of bankruptcy. He also assists his clients with a vast array of business-related issues, including day-to-day legal advice in commercial matters and business contracts.
Mr. Lange’s clients are multinational groups, public and closely held corporations and family-owned companies, and are based in all areas of the industry, including book and magazine publishing, machinery and equipment manufacturing, engineering, chemical/pharmaceutical/biotech, automotive, furniture, distribution and trading, logistics, hardware, fasteners and industrial supplies, as well as electronic equipment and components.
Mr. Lange has authored various articles and contributions addressing corporate and cross-border issues, such as chapters in Gesellschaftsrecht des Auslandes in der Praxis (Beck, 2012) and Mergers & Acquisitions in the United States (Aspen, 2011), and an article on material adverse change clauses and their use in U.S. acquisition agreements (“Material Adverse Effect” und “Material Adverse Change”-Klauseln in amerikanischen Unternehmenskaufverträgen, NZG 2005, 454ff.).
Mr. Lange is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York City Bar and the American Foreign Law Association. He is fluent in German and qualified to practice in Germany.
Some of Mr. Lange’s representative cases include:
10/1/2010 - CCH/Wolters Kluwer/Aspen Publishes Mergers & Acquisitions in the United States: A Practical Guide for Non-U.S. Buyers with 27 Baker Hostetler Attorneys