admitted to bar since 2002 | Certified Specialist Lawyer for Commercial and Corporate Law & Certified Specialist Lawyer for Labour Law
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Specialities
- Corporations and partnerships: mergers & acquisitions, formations, transformations, reorganizations, acquisition and sale of shareholdings, shareholder disputes
- Directors’ and officer’s (D&O) liability: advice and representation of companies, shareholders, boards of management, managing directors and supervisory boards for liability issues, particularly in D&O proceedings
- Individual and collective labor law: contracts for services and contracts of employment, works agreements, termination of contracts of employment, changes in business operations, reconciliation of interests and redundancy scheme, proceedings before arbitration committees, transfer of undertakings, compliance
- Liability of accredited professionals: advice and representation for the enforcement of and defense against claims for damages because of incorrect advice
- Litigation before state courts and arbitration courts
STUDIES AND PRACTICAL ACTIVITY
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- University of Potsdam (doctorate in conversion law)
- Practical activity during postgraduate legal traineeship in Munich and London at the international law firms Noerr LLP and Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
- Since 2003 at Kempter, Gierlinger und Partner Rechtsanwälte mbB, Munich
- member of the corporate law committee of the German Federal Bar (Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer)
Selected Mandates
Mergers & acquisitions: acquisition and sale of corporate participating interests and private equity, restructurings, conversions and start-up consultancy
- Advice and representation of the majority shareholder of a major medium-sized industrial enterprise in the context of its sale
- Advice and representation of the sole shareholder for the sale of his medium-sized enterprise
- Advice and representation of the majority shareholder of a family-owned business for the sale of her equity stake
- Advice and representation of a limited liability company (GmbH) on the acquisition and later sale of an interest in the company
- Advice and representation of the buyer in a corporate acquisition
- Advice to a company in connection with the transfer of a partial business unit
- Advice and representation of a major medium-sized enterprise in connection with the setting up of a group structure
- Advice to a relatively important medium-sized enterprise in connection with the foundation of a foreign subsidiary
- Advice to foreign investors for the formation of a distribution company in Germany
- Conversion of a company constituted under civil law (GbR) into a limited liability partnership (Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB)
- Advice for the conversion of a company constituted under civil law (GbR) into a limited partnership with a limited liability company as general partner (GmbH & Co. KG)
- Advice to patent lawyers for the formation of a limited professional liability partnership company (Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB)
- Advice to physicians for the formation of an association for practice of the profession (Berufsausübungsgemeinschaft)
- Advice to and representation of a lawyer when leaving a partnership of lawyers constituted under civil law
- Advice to a founder for starting up a company in the area of IT and Applications (“Apps”)
Shareholders meetings, disputes between shareholders, executive body and advisor’s liability:
- Advice to and representation of a majority shareholder in the event of internal corporate conflicts
- Advice to a shareholder on intended measures for a capital increase
- Advice to a company in connection with the establishment of an advisory board
- Advice to and representation of a board of management for the defense of claims for damages (D&O proceedings)
- Advice to and representation of a managing director for the defense of claims for damages (D&O proceedings)
- Advice to and representation of a stock corporation for the revocation and dismissal of a member of the board of management as well as for the assertion of claims for damages against the board member
- Representation of a lawyer for his defense against claims for damages (advisor liability)
Individual and collective labour law:
- Advise and representation of a company in the context of the closure of a site, including the associated personnel reduction and the conduct of proceedings for unfair dismissal
- Advice to a company in connection with personnel reduction for operational reasons, including conduct of negotiations for the reconciliation of interests and social plan negotiations as well as conduct of subsequent proceedings for unfair dismissal
- Advice to and representation of a hospital group for personnel reduction, the negotiation of works agreements and the implementation of decision-making processes relating to protection against dismissal, conciliation boards and the Works Constitution Act
- Advice to a stock corporation on the prerequisites and consequences of a transfer of undertakings
- Advice to a major medium-sized company in connection with various transfers of undertakings caused by diverse spin-offs, including drafting of the required information letters
- Advice to a major medium-sized company for the establishment of a group works council
- Advice to a medium-sized company for the design of employment contracts, works council agreements, warning letters, notices of termination and participations in the works council, as well as for the conduct of disputes under the Works Constitution Act and under individual labor law
- Advice to and representation of an executive in the context of his resignation from the employment relationship
- Advice to and representation of an executive for his defense against reproaches regarding compliance
Commercial law and compensation for damages:
- Advice to and representation of a service company for the design and negotiation of cooperation agreements and marketing contracts (sponsoring contracts)
- Advice to a medium-sized company for the design of contracts for services and agency contracts
- Advice to and representation of a medium-sized company for the enforcement and defense of claims (for damages)