Practice Areas - Stock Corporations
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Takeover Law
- Corporate Law
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Litigation
- Capital Markets
- Finance
- Commercial Law
- Complex Business Litigation
- Business Law
- Company Law
- Public Company Law
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Structuring
- Joint Ventures
| - Corporate Successions
- Corporation Law
- International Corporate Law
- Corporate Contracts
- Debt and Equity Finance
- Factoring Law
- Financial Institutions Law
- Private Finance
- Public Finance
- Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions
- Hostile Takeovers
- Leveraged and Management Buyouts
- Management Buy-Ins
- Takeovers
- Tender Offers
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| Contact Info | Telephone: +49 (0) 211-882929
Fax: +49 (0) 211 882926
http://www.mkrg.com
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| Education | University of Osnabrück (J.D., 1995; Dr. iur., Doctoral Thesis, "summa cum laude", 2000); Distance University of Hagen (Dipl.-Kfm, Business Administration); Second State Examination (2001) |
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| Admitted | 2002, Germany |
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| Memberships | Schmalenbach Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e. V., Cologne; Bundesverband deutscher Volks- und Betriebswirte e.V.; Gesellschaftsrechtliche Vereinigung - Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht (VGR) e. V.; Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit e. V. (German Institution of Arbitration) (DIS). |
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| Languages | German and English |
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| Born | Lüdenscheid, Germany, December 5, 1968 |
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| Biography | *1989-1992: Employed in the medium size plastics processing industry, finally as manager of a company that constructed, produced and distributed injection molded thermoplastic precision items in particular for the international TV set industry *1995- 1997: Scientific Associate, Shearman & Sterling *1997-1999: Assistant Lecturer of Prof. Dr. Theodor Baums, Institute for Commercial and Business Law, University of Osnabrück *2002-2005 Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Düsseldorf, sector group Corporate, Public M & A *Since March 2005: Senior Partner at Mütze Korsch Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH // Achievements: Recipient, Karmann-Förderpreis 1993 (Karmann Award 1993 for excellent works of particular importance for medium-sized companies), University of Osnabrück; ACQ Global Award 2009; Repeated inclusion in the Best Lawyers list for Germany in the practice area of Private Equity (2010 and 2011); Recommended by the German business journal Handelsblatt as a top lawyer for Private Equity (2011)// Author of: M. Koch, Diversifizierung und Vorstandskompetenzen, 2001; Kapitel 6: Rechtsstellung der Gesellschafter in Bormann/Kauka/Ockelmann, Handbuch GmbH-Recht, 2nd ed. 2011; et al. // Various: Lectures regularly at university and client symposia in particular on corporate law as well as capital markets law. |
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| ISLN | 919545838 |
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| Transactions | Advising Saban Capital Group, Inc. on the KirchMedia transaction (2002/2003); Acquisition of a minority stake in CompuGROUP Holding AG by General Atlantic Partners (2003); Acquisition of the main shareholding in Beiersdorf AG by Tchibo Holding AG, HGV and Troma as buyers and, in this context, structuring and executing the public self tender offer program of Beiersdorf AG (2003/2004); Sale of the main shareholding in TUI AG by WestLB AG (2004); Management Buyout of the Maredo group (2005 - "Maredo I"). Establishing European cash pool systems in several international corporate groups (2005/2006); Advising a foreign stock corporation listed in Germany on drafting a prospectus in accordance with the German Securities Selling Prospectus Act (WpPG) pertaining to newly issued shares (2006); Restructuring the financing of an international group of companies from the chemicals industry (2006/2007); Advising on the settlement of a corporate claim which amounted to a three-digit million euros sum (2006/2007); Establishing a factoring company in Germany (2007); Aligning US stock option plans with the German capital markets law requirements (2007); Acquisition of the Homann group by IFR (2007); Secondary Management Buyout of the Maredo group (2008 - "Maredo II"; this transaction won MKRG the ACQ Global Award 2009 in the category "Small Law Firm of the Year - Western Europe"); Advising a German listed stock corporation from the metal recycling industry in the crisis in corporate, financial and capital markets law (2008/2009); Advising several complex M&A transactions involving German medium-sized stock corporations (2009/2010/2011). |
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