Lawyer
Frankfurt am Main
Christian Cornett is a lawyer in Frankfurt am Main with more than 25 years of experience in business law firms. His practice focuses on transactions at the interface of repositioning, M&A, and accounting and corporate law. These are regularly transactions or structures with a capital markets dimension. He typically works in close cooperation with other lawyers, M&A advisers, tax advisers, auditors, banks and communications experts.
During his first twenty-five years of legal practice in major law firms, Christian Cornett acted for a variety of clients, mostly foreign strategic investors, listed companies, hedge funds or private equity funds. His practice now focuses on rendering long-term legal – and typically more strategic – advice to a few selected clients, namely discreet individuals, family offices or funds, acting as investors.
In the past, his practice centred on clients acquiring financial or strategic stakes in companies. Increasingly, strategic advice to companies, investors and board members forms the core of his work. His practice now focuses on establishing and adapting corporate and holding structures. This regularly involves adapting structures flexibly to changing economic, legal and political conditions while taking tax, accounting and regulatory requirements into account.
Realising transactions implementing adequate, flexible and sustainable structures, taking into consideration present as well as anticipated regulations and market conditions.
Advising companies, shareholders and investors on the form and execution of investments, shareholdings or enterprises as well as related contractual, regulatory and board matters.
Structuring and/or execution of acquisitions or parts thereof, including public M&A, limited auction processes and private equity transactions.
Structuring and legal execution of deals on capital markets such as block trades, PIPEs, stakebuilding (also using instruments) in listed companies, including take-over related advice or taking privates.
Christian Cornett combines legal and commercial expertise. His work follows this sustainable advisory approach:
Focusing on each client's long-term best interests and each client's specific requirements, consistently striving to create added value.
Co-operating collaboratively with all parties and persons involved, always focusing on the client's best interests.
Combining quality and creativity to realise his clients' aims through innovative solutions – in order to create value for the client beyond the transaction.
Christian Cornett often advises on bespoke solutions that are also tailored to his clients' specific needs when facing regulatory challenges.
Integrity is at the centre of the advice – and is equally decisive for every transaction and structure. At the same time, integrity forms the core of the legal advice provided by Christian Cornett. Integrity goes beyond resolving the legal question. Integrity also means considering, alongside the client's specific goals and wishes, the client's wider interests and fundamental objectives. Because ultimately, the best legal advice is not what can simply be done, but what should be done in the client's long-term interest.