Investment and financing are two sides of the same coin. Hence, attorneys advising on investments must also consider the relevant capital markets and finance law. In fact, the entire legal framework governing the specific investment must be taken into account. The respective rules may either aim at protecting investors, investees, the state, free and fair competition etc. or seek to encourage or even to discourage certain investments. In addition, there are often peculiar tax aspects affecting investments. As a consequence, multiple areas of law have to be applied and integrated when rendering legal advice on investments: corporate law issues of investment vehicles and shareholdings, capital markets and finance law governing the funding of real investments or the entering into financial investments, specific civil law and public law aspects, respectively, of the investment objects themselves, but also subsidy law, antitrust law other economic law as well as tax law aspects relevant for the specific investment.
The law governing investments often differs greatly from one country to another. Therefore, in particular foreigners are well advised to solicit competent legal advice in this respect. As the case may be, the scope of advice needed can even be extended to a multidisciplinary approach involving also technical, financial and valuation advisory services etc.