Wolfgang Sigler, born in Stuttgart, studied law in Heidelberg and Munich after completing his training in public finance (Diplom-Finanzwirt (FH)) in the financial administration of Baden-Württemberg. He has been a registered lawyer in Stuttgart since 1998.
Based on his sound legal and business management and tax law expertise, Wolfgang Sigler always pursues a holistic approach to business law in his consultancy work with the aim of realisable solutions in line with his clients' interests.
As a specialist lawyer for insolvency law, he advises companies, their executive bodies, credi-tors and insolvency administrators in crisis environments and insolvency with the following main areas of activity:
- Reorganisation and restructuring,
- Stakeholders' obligations and options for action in corporate crises,
- Initiation of regular insolvency, debtor-in-possession and protective shield proceedings,
- Insolvency plan proceedings,
- Pre-insolvency restructuring proceedings,
- Credit security and creditor protection,
- Distressed M&A and real estate transactions in an insolvency environment,
- Insolvency avoidance, directors' and shareholders' liability,
- Litigation management.
For many years he has also been assisting medium-sized companies in various industries and their corporate bodies and owners in all phases of their life cycle
- on company formation and acquisition, drafting of articles of association and participation agreements as well as joint ventures,
- on contracts and conflicts with corporate bodies and within the group,
- by representing companies, shareholders, managing directors and D&O insurers in major lia-bility cases and litigation,
- in the drafting and in the event of default in performance of typical company contracts,
- in questions of complex corporate financing,
- through extrajudicial and judicial representation in shareholder conflicts and
- in business succession with questions of inheritance law, company law and tax law.
