Mr. Alting’s work includes corporate matters. He is helping start-ups to select the appropriate business entity form and undertakes all the legal work to form an entity. He further drafts corporate agreements such as shareholder, (limited) partnership or operating agreements. He is also assisting clients in M&A or similar corporate transactions including joint ventures.

Mr. Alting advises numerous foreign clients, with an emphasis on Germany and other European countries, doing business in the United States on all legal issues they may face. The work primarily includes corporate and commercial work including transactional, contract, employment and immigration matters. The transactional work consists of assisting clients with setting up a legal entity in the United States, including advice on the best corporate structure, as well as corporate restructuring matters, joint ventures and M&A work.

As part of his international practice, Mr. Alting helps clients and their foreign employees to secure all necessary visas and work permits, be aware of the numerous immigration laws and to be in compliance with these laws. Visa work focuses on getting nonimmigrant and immigrant (permanent) visas for the clients’ executive, managerial, professional and other employees including their spouses and children. In addition, Mr. Alting assists individuals getting the proper nonimmigrant and/or immigrant visa.

Mr. Alting advises numerous foreign clients, with an emphasis on Germany and other European countries, doing business in the United States on all legal issues they may face. The work primarily includes corporate, contract, employment and immigration matters as well as litigation and product liability issues. Services range from helping clients to form a new company in the U.S. to giving continuous legal support and advice as the business is manufacturing, marketing and selling its products and/or services in the U.S. The work also includes estate matters involving foreign individuals or another country.

Further, Mr. Alting gives legal advice to businesses or individuals residing in the U.S. on issues involving other countries’ laws, with a focus on Germany. For example, this may include assisting a U.S.-based company that has foreign operations or is in the process of setting up a foreign base, getting a visa or work permit for another country or dual nationality questions (especially the so-called German “Beibehaltungsgenehmigung”).

Where needed and appropriate, Mr. Alting uses his contacts with other professionals in and outside the United States, including those offered by the legal networks of which the Firm is a member.