We advise businesses, shareholders, investors, and executives on corporate, commercial, and contract law as well as domestic and cross-border transactions. We take your business objectives as our starting point and develop legal solutions that are both legally sound and commercially effective.
Diana White provides personalized counsel informed by international experience and a keen understanding of business realities. She distills complex matters into their essential issues, explains available options clearly, and approaches negotiations with strategic insight and foresight.
From company formation to changes in ownership, we advise on the legal structuring and development of businesses. This includes drafting and revising articles of association and ownership structures, corporate resolutions, and managing shareholder entries and exits, with a focus on the parties’ long-term working relationship. Particular attention is given to preventing shareholder disputes and resolving conflicts when they arise.
Domestic and cross-border commercial agreements, cooperations and joint ventures require legal precision and a thorough understanding of the parties’ business objectives. In acquisitions, disposals and equity investments, we combine contract drafting, purchase price mechanisms and strategic negotiation.
Executive managers and board members bear responsibility for corporate decision-making, organizational structures, and effective oversight. The firm helps clients assess legal risks, establish clear lines of responsibility, and mitigate personal liability exposure. When claims arise, their legal merits are carefully assessed, and an appropriate response strategy is developed.
Disputes among shareholders, conflicts with management or disagreements with contractual partners call for a carefully tailored legal strategy. We evaluate the parties’ legal positions, the available evidence, and the potential commercial impact. In close consultation with you, we assess whether commercial mediation, particularly shareholder mediation, or litigation is better suited to protecting your interests in the specific circumstances. The assessment considers factors such as urgency, prospects of success, costs, time commitments, confidentiality, the preservation of business relationships, and the parties’ willingness to pursue an amicable resolution.
Legal representation and neutral mediation are strictly separated. If a law firm has previously advised or represented a party in the same dispute, an independent mediator conducts the mediation. The client’s legal representation and the mediation process are arranged separately to safeguard the mediator’s neutrality and the integrity of the process.
Diana White has more than 20 years of experience in corporate law and M&A. Her legal and business education, including an MBA from the University of Phoenix in Arizona, enables her to combine rigorous legal analysis with a sound understanding of financial matters, business models, and strategic decision-making. For cross-border transactions and other international matters, she leverages a well-established network of partner law firms worldwide.
Over many years of working together, I have come to know Diana White as a dedicated attorney. She stands out for her legal expertise, quick grasp of complex matters, litigation experience and her great negotiating skills. This is the ideal basis for structuring and guiding clients through commercial mediation.
Doing business abroad only succeeds with advisors who know and master both legal systems excellently and who can draw on solid practical experience. This clearly applies to Diana.
With her international know-how, Diana-Maria White helps us find fast and efficient solutions for our companies!
Diana has been advising us for years to our complete satisfaction.
Hardly anyone in the industry combines expertise, assertiveness and efficiency with charm and such a competent and straightforward manner as Diana White. It has been a pleasure working with her on joint mandates for 15 years.
For many years, Diana White has provided us with competent, goal-oriented and solution-oriented results and advice. Across borders and areas of law, she achieves fast and efficient solutions for her clients.
Diana’s outstanding legal qualifications, interpersonal skills and extensive international experience make her a very strong partner in business negotiations and dispute resolution.
Diana-Maria White achieved the best possible negotiation result for me in the shortest possible time, something I had previously thought impossible.
Diana White is a very persuasive negotiator and lecturer who engages and inspires participants with a clear structure, sound knowledge and relevant practical examples.
Whenever my international clients need legal support in Austria, Diana-Maria White has always been a reliable and highly competent point of contact. She is at home not only in different legal systems but also in different cultures, and she reliably recognizes the needs of foreign clients.
Are you planning a transaction, seeking clarity on your legal position, or facing a business dispute? We will work with you to identify the key issues and develop a strategy tailored to your objectives.
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