Partner | admitted to bar since 1998
Languages: German, English
Specialities
- Law of partnerships and corporations: formations, changes and restructurings, acquisition and sale of company shares, withdrawal of partners or shareholders, disputes among partners or shareholders, executive board or management relations, liability of executive organs
- Association law: formation, changes to statutes, advice for the organization of meetings of members, disputes between members, liability of the association board
- Individual and collective labour law: constitution and termination of service and employment contracts, disputes in matters relating to the protection against dismissal, works agreements
- Law on commercial reciprocal agreements: constitution and termination of commercial agency contracts and distribution agreements as well as consultancy agreements and cooperation ventures, claims for fees, advisor’s liability
- Succession law: advice on legal succession arrangements and representation in inheritance disputes
- Conduct of litigation before state and arbitration courts as well as alternative dispute settlement
Studies and practical activity
- Training as industrial business management assistant (parent house apprenticeship at Siemens)
- Studies at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- Doctorate at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg im Breisgau
- Practical activity during postgraduate legal traineeship in Munich and Zürich
- Since 1999 lawyer at Kempter, Gierlinger und Partner Rechtsanwälte mbB, Munich
Selected mandates
Law of partnerships and corporations:
- Advice and representation for the formation of freelancers’ partnerships and companies (lawyers, patent lawyers and architects), preparation of contracts for shared offices, professional firms, partnerships, limited liability partnerships and companies
- Advice and representation in connection with the withdrawal of partners or shareholders from freelancers’ partnerships or companies on both the partnership’s or company’s and the partners’ or shareholders’ side
- Advice and representation for the formation of diverse limited liability companies (GmbH) and limited commercial partnerships formed with a limited liability company as general partner and the members of the limited liability company, their families, or outsiders, as limited partners (GmbH & Co KG)
- Advice and representation in diverse disputes within the group of shareholders of limited liability companies, as well as in connection with the sale and withdrawal of shares
- Advice and representation of diverse companies when entering into and dissolving director and manager relationships
- Advice and representation of numerous board members, managing directors and managers
- Advice and representation within the scope of executive body liability disputes and disputes over claims for damages against board members, managing directors and other managers
Law of associations:
- Drafting and revision of statutes of associations ranging from small associations up to federations operating throughout Germany
- Advice on the conduct of members’ meetings of different sizes
- Advice and representation of both honorary and remunerated association board members
- Advice and representation of associations in different legal relationships with third parties
- Advice and representation in liability disputes on both the association’s and the board’s side
Labour law:
- Drafting and revision of employment contracts, preparation of sample employment contracts
- Drafting and revision of the most diverse service contracts, contracts for freelance collaborators, contracts for managing directors and board members
- Advice and representation in connection with the termination of employment relationships and other service relationships, during negotiations of termination and settlement agreements on both the employer’s and the employee’s side
- Conduct of proceedings for the protection against dismissal
- Advice and representation during the negotiation and conclusion of works agreements
Law on commercial reciprocal agreements
- Advice and representation for the conclusion of commercial agency agreements, dealer’s contracts and other distribution agreements
- Advice and representation during the negotiation and drafting of diverse individual consultancy and support agreements, in connection with cooperation ventures and other individual contract arrangements for economic exchange
- Advice and representation within the scope of disputes relating to the amount of fees
- Advice and representation in questions relating to advisor’s liability, lawyer’s liability and other professional liability issues