1. Current extract from the trade and commercial registry, including submissions to the trade and commercial registry which have not yet been entered

2. Articles of Association or the formation deed, including the formation report with the current version of the original statutes

3. Closed chain of notarial deeds on the assignment of shares since the formation of the company up to the present shareholder, together with deeds on all capital increases, capital reductions, amalgamations and conversions

4. List of the current shareholders, stating the cases in which shares are held on a fiduciary basis for a third party or a current register of shareholders or a copy of the current share register

5. Agreements on all encumbrances of shares, in particular pledges, beneficiary rights, granting of sub-holdings and any other transfer of rights in shares

6. Agreements on the granting of shareholder loans or loans from affiliated undertakings of the company (interest rate, amount, payment date, repayment. securities, etc.)

7. Agreements on the registering of securities by shareholders or their affiliated undertakings for liabilities of the company to third parties

8. Agreements on the granting of loans by the company to shareholders or their affiliated undertakings (interest rate, amount, payment date, repayment. securities, etc.)

9. Capital contributions have been paid in full and not repaid; contributions in kind have been made with assets of equivalent value; details of the nominal amounts of issued and outstanding shares; details of any preference shares and a confirmation that all outstanding shares have been contributed in full

10. Powers of attorney which the company has issued and which have not been submitted to the trade and commercial registry

11. Minutes on all shareholders' meetings and all ordinary and extraordinary meetings, as well as minutes of meetings of the Management Board and Supervisory Board during the last three years

12. Rules of Procedures for the Management Board or Supervisory Board

13. An organisation chart of the company

For further information please contact Dr Erich Michel, Wessing Berenberg-Gossler Zimmermann Lange, Freiherr-Vom-Stein-Strasse 24-26, Frankfurt am Maim 60323, Frankfurt, Germany- Tel: +496 997 1300, Fax: +496 997 130100.

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