We offer support in drafting employment and service agreements as well as supplementary agreements for your employees, directors and members of the management or supervisory board. Conversely, we advise and represent international companies when terminating contracts of posted or local managers who commonly have complex contracts resulting from their working in different parts of the world. Aside from German labor law, often local labor law is applied.

We also draft or review of codes of conduct, compliance manuals and labor law manuals, while taking into account intercultural specificities. ADWA Law Firms offer employee trainings regarding these matters and assist companies with the setup of Asia-wide compliance hotlines, through which whistleblower reports can be handled in a structured manner.

We offer support during the planning and implementation of a variety of investment projects, considering national investment funding programs and managing in a timely manner all stages of authorization typically needed in the industry sector concerned.

In addition to tax-favorable concepts, strategic counselling includes customized advice in countries with legal investment restrictions.

Starting from trade and corporate law as well as antitrust law, ADWA Law Firms’ expertise covers the whole spectrum of economic and legal subjects that result from an increasingly complex, competitive and more regulated business environment.

Our main practice areas are:

• Foreign investments in one or more target countries of the Asia-Pacific region.

• Development and build-up of industrial projects including joint ventures.

• Negotiations and assistance concerning investment projects with third-party companies, government authorities and private investors.

• Technology transfer and licensing projects in all areas of intellectual property law.

• Counselling regarding all legal aspects concerning the establishment of production facilities and turn-key-projects.

• Legal support and structuring when initiating and implementing business development projects.

• Planning and implementation of legal risk management and strategic hedging.

• Antitrust evaluation of planned projects.

We offer identification of suitable acquisition candidates in one or more Asian country. This involves support during the preparation of feasibility studies, conduct of due diligence, sales negotiations, drafting and conclusion of sales contracts and closing, as well as handling all related legal questions and formalities. ADWA Law Firms provide Asia-wide post-merger support in order to coordinate necessary restructuring following the sale or merger of a company.

ADWA Lawyers have a special expertise in drafting, negotiating and implementing the following types of contract:

• agency agreement,

• asset purchase agreement,

• compliance agreement,

• co-marketing agreement,

• confidentiality agreement/non-disclosure agreement,

• co-promotion agreement,

• consulting agreement,

• co-operation agreement,

• copyright and intellectual property rights agreement,

• distribution agreement,

• employment agreement,

• joint venture agreement,

• know-how transfer agreement,

• lease agreement,

• licensing agreement,

• management agreement,

• manufacturing agreement,

• members agreement,

• option agreement,

• pool agreement,

• registration agreement,

• release (settlement & release) agreement,

• secrecy agreement,

• service agreement,

• severance payment agreement,

• shareholders agreement,

• share purchase agreement,

• share purchase agreement,

• sponsoring agreement,

• stock option agreement,

• teaming agreement,

• technology transfer agreement,

• and many other agreements.

ADWA Law Firms comprehensively support producers and distributors in cases of product liability, from the coordination of recalls, to talks with affected customers and insurers, to settlement negotiations and court proceedings. ADWA Law Firms have a network of technical and commercial experts, enabling them to defend clients against unjustified claims and to coordinate the handling of justified claims fast and silently in nearly every industry sector. We also support producers during approval procedures, inter alia in the fields of medical technology, pharmacy and in the food industry regarding labeling and approval requirements.

ADWA Lawyers have a profound expertise in international arbitration. The contact person of ADWA Singapore, Dr. Andreas Respondek, is a qualified Chartered Arbitrator (FCIArb). As a highly experienced arbitration expert, he coordinates all arbitration proceedings for the team of ADWA Lawyers in Asia. Dr. Respondek regularly gets appointed to sit as the presiding, sole or associate judge in the arbitration panels of the ICC, SIAC, HKIAC, TAI and other arbitration courts in international arbitration proceedings including ad hoc proceedings. Most of the ADWA Lawyers are members of the major local and/or international arbitration panels.

For the purpose of efficient conflict resolution, ADWA Lawyers provide intensive support in settlement negotiations with contract partners as well as with stockholders, government institutions, investors or executives. Aside from their legal knowledge, ADWA Lawyers apply their intercultural competence and language skills in a problem-solving manner. Being experienced intermediaries between cultures, they are able to work strategically towards the right solution. Their experience also helps during formal mediation proceedings if such proceedings are selected by the parties.