Practice Expertise

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Corporate Law
  • Private Equity
  • Joint Ventures

Areas of Practice

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Corporate Law
  • Private Equity
  • Joint Ventures
  • Compliance
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Reorganisation [of group of companies]
  • Stock Corporation Law
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WSG Practice Industries

WSG Leadership

  • Mergers & Acquisitions Group - Member
  • Technology, Media & Telecommunications Group - Member

Profile

Michael is a corporate lawyer with particular experience in M&A, private equity, and restructuring matters.

He regularly advises public and private companies in cross border transactions and joint venture projects. Michael is an expert in mid-market M&A and has broad experience in corporate governance and compliance matters.

He has a strong track record and particular experience in the Automotive, the Technology and the Logistics Sector. Michael also frequently advises family owners on business succession issues.

Education
University of Osnabrueck: Master of Law (Taxation) (1995-1996)
First State Examination (1995)

Areas of Practice

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Corporate Law
  • Private Equity
  • Joint Ventures
  • Compliance
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Reorganisation [of group of companies]
  • Stock Corporation Law

Professional Career

Professional Associations
  • International Bar Association

VGR Gesellschaftsrechtliche Vereinigung
Deutsch-Britische Juristenvereinigung e.V.
Westfaelischer Steuerkreis e.V, tax OS e.V.
ArMiD – Aufsichtsräte Mittelstand in Deutschland e.V.

Seminars/ Presentation
M&A 2011 - Was Kaeufer im kommenden Jahr beachten sollten (M&A 2011 - Issues to be considered by Buyers in the coming year)
Client seminar in cooperation with DGM Gesellschaft fuer Mittelstandsberatung and IPONTIX Equity Consultant December 2, 2010, Cologne


M&A in der Krise (M&A in the crisis)
Client Seminar, 2009, Cologne


Professional Activities and Experience
DLA Piper, Cologne (Counsel) (2009-2014)
Weil Gotshal Manges, Munich (Senior Associate) (2006-2009)
Simmons & Simmons, Duesseldorf (2000-2005)
Bar Examination, Admission to Bar (1999)
Doctoral Thesis on "Tax Accounting of Environmental Assets" (1998)

Articles

Additional ArticlesM&A Deals: Risiken mit Vendor Due Dili­gence iden­ti­fizieren (M&A Deals: Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of rsiks by Ven­dor Due Dili­gence)
Finance-Magazin, June 28, 2013


Sicherungs­fra­gen bei M&A im Vorder­grund (Pro­tec­tion in the fore­ground of M&A transac­tions)
Finance-Magazin, October 16, 2012


Mi­tar­beit­er­beteili­gung: Die Unternehmenssanierung rueckt in den Fokus (Employee partic­i­pa­tion: Com­pany re­struc­tur­ing comes into focus)
Handelsblatt, November 17, 2011


Gute Zeiten fuer Un­ternehmenskaeufer (Good times for company buy­ers)
Handelsblatt, February 9, 2011


Übernah­men auch ohne Bank fi­nanzieren (Fi­nanc­ing of take overs with­out banks)
Handelsblatt, September 30, 2010


Mit einem Bein in der Haf­tung (Li­a­bil­ity risks in M&A trans­ac­tions)
Finance-Magazin, July/August 2010


Fall­stricke beim Un­ternehmen­skauf (Pit­falls in M&A trans­ac­tions)
Vermögen und Steuern 7/2010


Kred­itk­lemme macht erfind­erisch (Credit cri­sis cre­ates cre­ativ­ity)
Handelsblatt, September 21, 2009


Möglichkeiten der An­pas­sung von Buch­w­ertabfind­un­gen an den niedrigeren Verkehr­swert bei der GmbH (Pos­si­bil­i­ties to ad­just book value com­pen­sa­tion clauses to the lower fair mar­ket value in Ger­man lim­ited li­a­bil­ity com­pa­nies)
DStR 2003, 1260


Körper­schaft­s­teuer­liche Auswirkun­gen der Cen­tros-Entschei­dung des EuGH (Tax con­se­quences of the Cen­tros de­ci­sion of the ECJ)
Der Betrieb, 1999, 2238


Die bi­lanzs­teuer­rechtliche Be­hand­lung von umweltschutzbe­d­ingten In­dus­triean­la­gen (Tax Ac­count­ing of en­vi­ron­men­tal as­sets)
Peter Lang 1998

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