My areas of expertise
Corporate law / M&A
Corporate law encompasses the legal relationships between companies organised as partnerships (GbR, oHG, KG, PartG) or corporations (GmbH, UG, AG, SE, Verein), their shareholders and their governing bodies. Corporate law regulates and sorts the individual interests of these parties, which are usually similar but still individual. If – as is often the case – the general legal regulations do not adequately reflect the interests of the parties involved, they can use individual agreements and regulations to create a set of rules among themselves that deviates from the general legal regulations and is tailored to their needs. Corporate law offers great freedom of design for this, which needs to be utilised. If a dispute nevertheless arises between the company, shareholders or governing bodies, a forward-looking structure proves its worth in the corporate dispute that then has to be resolved.
Inheritance law
Well-thought-out estate planning ensures that your wishes are respected and disputes avoided. When organising your succession or settling an estate, we take into account not only legal issues and economic interests, but also the interpersonal component.
More about me
As a lawyer, I advise medium-sized companies and their shareholders in the areas of corporate and inheritance law. This includes the formation of companies, the drafting of articles of association, the support of capital measures and transformation processes, as well as the resolution of shareholder disputes. A particular focus is on corporate succession.
I support private individuals in the drafting of wills, the structuring of asset succession and in inheritance disputes.
Career
After studying law at the University of Heidelberg, I initially worked as a research assistant at a major international law firm in Frankfurt am Main. I then worked on my doctoral thesis, which was supported by a scholarship from the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (sdw). In 2021, I was awarded a doctorate in law from the Institute for Foreign and International Private and Commercial Law at the University of Heidelberg. Before joining Bartsch Rechtsanwälte, I worked as a lawyer for another commercial law firm in Baden-Württemberg.
My main areas of practice are corporate and inheritance law. I also regularly publish in these fields in specialist books and leading journals, including the Munich Handbook of Corporate Law (Vol. 9: Family Businesses).
Lectures
- Examination tutorial in international corporate law, University of Heidelberg (winter term 2021/2022; winter term 2022/2023)
Publications
- Note on ECJ, judgment of 25 April 2024 – C-276/22 (Edil Work 2), NZG 2024, 956 et seq.
- Privileging of partnerships under §§ 5, 6 GrEStG in terms of land transfer tax until the end of 2024, DB 2023, 2852 et seq.
- The outsourcing of the pension promise of the shareholder-managing director, DB 2023, 2587 et seq.
- Consequences of the new partnership law for advisory practice – Overview and recommendations for tax advisors before the entry into force of the MoPeG on 1 January 2024, NWB Steuer- und Wirtschaftsrecht 13/2023, p. 921 et seq.
- Limits of the freedom of choice of law in corporate law, Carl Heymanns (AHW series), Cologne 2022 (also doctoral thesis, University of Heidelberg
- The cross-border family business, in: Bochmann/Cziupka/Prütting (eds.), Munich Handbook of Corporate Law, Volume 9, Law of Family Businesses, Munich 2021 (together with Prof. Dr. Leonhard Hübner)
- Quotas for Women in Corporate Law, Neue Zeitschrift für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht 2020, p. 1212 et seq. (together with Dr Maximilian Leydecker)
- Report on the Discussion, in: Bergmann et al (eds), From Groups to Unitary Enterprises, Current Development Perspectives of German and European Group Law (ZGR Special Issue 22), 2020, p. 137 et seq.
- Search and seizure in the sphere of the company lawyer in the course of internal investigations, BB 2018, p. 2953 et seq. (together with Dr Alexander Kiefner and Karl-Jörg Xylander)
- Legal problems of personal liability of corporate bodies leading to an existential threat in the law of stock corporations, StudZR Wiss-On 2017, p. 1 et seq.
