Food distributor: limit risks and improve contract conditionsProblem: a large importer and wholesaler in fresh products (client) supplies an international restaurant chain, with a turnover of several hundred thousand euros per day, seven days a week. The parent company of the restaurants has hit a rough financial patch, while the restaurants themselves are more than viable. The food distributor wants to limit its risks, whilst managing to continue to supply the restaurants at better conditions – a commercial and organisational issue with far-reaching -- and essential -- legal pitfalls and traps against the background of a fairly complex operation with an array of companies. Read more...
Recreation company: after 15 years of fruitless litigation, they got compensation nonethelessProblem: a recreation company in a major city was expropriated some 10 years ago by the municipality on account of its area development plans. The municipality offered the owner compensation that was far too low. The latter litigated for nearly 15 years, assisted by another lawyer. There was no better result in sight. In the meantime, however, the recreation company had been expropriated and the bills for legal assistance were piling up – in fact, the former owner owed the lawyer more than €700,000. The lawyer threatened seizure. Read more...
Airline had to change course on pilotsProblem: the national airline of Kuwait no longer paid a salary to pilots with Iraqi nationality. It later reported the dismissal of the pilots involved, who evidently had no access to the courts in Kuwait. Read more...
Welfare organisation: implementation of new management structureProblem: the management team of a regional welfare organisation (social work, socio-cultural services) lost confidence in the operating manager and the board; the board realised that it had to get organised, that the management team had to go, and wanted legal advice and support for the re-organisation and dismissal. Read more...
Guiding a broadcasting organisation in financial crisis towards a new futureProblem: a broadcasting organisation at the subregional level has developed a structural debt position that runs an annual deficit of at least €100,000. The revenues (subsidy and market performance) cannot possibly offset this. A complex set of causes is at issue, and acute bankruptcy for the broadcasting organisation threatens. How do we keep the transmitters on the air? Read more...
Publishing house (family company): improving the financial controlProblem: A major magazine publishing house, a family firm with quite a number of informal ‘lines’ still, worked with various contract partners, including advertising agencies. These are usually contractual relationships of long standing. Many of these contract partners depend on the publisher. We were called in to provide assistance for the termination of such a relationship because too high a debtor position had been run up at the supplier concerned. Read more...
CSR solutions for housing corporationProblem: The underlying interdependence of a housing corporation and its rapidly grown maintenance company (in terms of FTEs) meant that management was not financially transparent and less effective. Read more...