We design and safeguard the legal framework for your commercial activities enabling you to run your company in a target-oriented manner and ensure it realises its full potential.
SCOPUS Legal is a legal consultancy company with headquarters in Nuremberg specialising in comprehensive consulting on legal frameworks for commercial activities and the legally secure operational implementation of those activities. We advise corporate clients from a range of sectors including the finance, extractive, energy and chemical industries.
SCOPUS focuses on providing preventative and conceptual legal advice as well as and delivers tailored contracts for any business matters and projects. We take on legally-relevant tasks such as compliance, contract management or the functions of a “corporate centre” including support for company boards, for example, both from an advisory and operational perspective.
SCOPUS Legal advises on defending against and asserting claims arising during the course of your project and takes on the enforcement of claims in court and alternative dispute proceedings.
Beyond providing legal advice on the conventional fields of general commercial, trade and company law, SCOPUS Legal also covers the following legal areas:
Legal advice as an integral project component
SCOPUS Legal provides advice at the very start or during the course of your project on drafting and implementing contracts and also on effective claim management; for example in the construction, overhaul and expansion of power plant fleets.
Works contract and construction law
SCOPUS Legal provides guidance on contractual design and advises on national and international project business based on international FIDIC standards or national norms, for example.
Energy law
SCOPUS Legal assesses the legal risks in national and international transactions in the field of power generation and provides advice on legal issues related to renewable energy sources.
Legal risk management and compliance
Inadequate risk management or failure to observe compliance requirements can cost a company a lot of time and money. SCOPUS Legal advises you on the design and implementation of legal risk management and compliance functions and provides ongoing support for these (Managed Services).
Transaction management
SCOPUS Legal provides both legal advice and guidance on the structuring and contractual implementation of commercial transactions (corporate acquisitions, financing, investment).
Bank and capital market law
SCOPUS provides legal consulting for corporate and project financing and for commercial transactions (financial instruments, raw materials, energy) as well as guidance on capital market transactions. Through the provision of these services we have acquired many years of experience in the finance industry.
Process management, arbitration proceedings, dispute settlement
SCOPUS Legal aims to prevent disputes by providing preventative advice and reviewing the potential risks inherent in commercial decisions. If a dispute becomes unavoidable, we use both traditional dispute settlement methods and alternative approaches to resolve the issue. Our cooperative partnership with a range of organisations (link to partners) enables us to represent the interests of our clients in both national and international courts of law and arbitration.