Law Firm & Notary Office

Pinegrove is a law firm with notary office specialized in advising in transactional and litigation matters for internationally operating companies. Our main practice areas are commercial and corporate law, M&A, employment law, compliance and white-collar crime as well as litigation and arbitration as well as the complete range of notarial services.

We have a focus on advising in cross-border matters between Europe and South Korea. Together with our alliance firm Lee & Partners in Seoul, we form a team of German and Korean attorney that provides professional legal services in a pragmatic and efficient manner, trilingual (in English, German and Korean) and culturally versed. We are the direct contact for you here in Europe for your projects, transactions and proceedings, which are handled together with our colleagues in Korea.

Please feel free to contact us with your questions and requests!

Pinegrove Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH

Practice Areas

Areas of Expertise & Law

The attorneys of of Pinegrove advise and represent German and international clients in the following areas of expertise and law:

Corporate General, Contracts, Commercial
Corporate and M&A
Joint Ventures
Company Establishment and Startups
Labor & Employment

Litigation
Arbitration

Compliance
Investigations
Crisis Management
External Legal Department

Notarial Services:

Corporate law

Company formations (also via online procedure)
Company purchase agreements, share and asset deals (M&A)
Entry and exit of shareholders
Capital measures (capital increases and decreases) (also via online procedure)
Amendments to articles of association (also via online procedure)
Business succession
Corporate financing
Support in all commercial register matters

Family law

Drafting and notarization of prenuptial agreements and related contracts
Drafting and notarization of separation and divorce agreements as well as property settlements
Declarations of custody, health care proxies and living wills

Real estate law

Preparation and notarization of land, real estate and gift contracts
Preparation and notarization of property development contracts
Establishment of residential and partial ownership
Preparation and notarization of land register declarations
Preparation and notarization of leasehold contracts
Creation and deletion of liens (land charges, mortgages)
Execution activities related to notarized deeds

Inheritance law

Drawing up and amending of wills, inheritance contracts and waivers of legitimes (forced shares of inheritance)
Preparation and notarization of declarations under inheritance law
Recording of estate inventories
Preparation and notarization of inheritance settlement agreements

Practice Areas Korea

As Korean desk and in cooperation with our alliance firm Lee & Partners in Seoul, we advise companies and private persons from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg and other European countries in transactions, projects and proceedings in South Korea. The joint expertise covers the following areas of Korean law:

Corporate General, Contracts, Commercial
Corporate and M&A
Joint Ventures
Company Establishment and Startups
Labor & Employment
Real Estate
Family and Inheritance Law

Compliance
Investigations
Crisis Management
White-Collar Crime
Criminal Defense

Litigation
Arbitration

Managing Partner

Baek-Lim Whang

Managing Partner, Rechtsanwalt (German Attorney-at-law)

T +49 6196 400 139

whang@pinegrove.de

Pinegrove (since 2017)
Lee & Partners, Senior Foreign Counsel, Korea (since 2016)
Shin & Kim, Foreign Attorney, Korea (2012-2016)
Siemens, In-house Counsel, Germany and Korea (2007-2012)

Admitted to the bar in 2007
Notary (office in Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe) since 2024
Legal Training/Clerkship at Frankfurt Higher Regional Court and 2nd Judicial State Examination (2007)
Law school (Humboldt University of Berlin) und 1st Judicial State Examination (2004)