• Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität-Münster, 1st state examination in law 2011
• Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Hamburg, 2nd state examination in law 2014

• Rechtsanwalt (German qualified lawyer) 2014

Advising

• Secured syndicate lenders (US bank and US PE fund) on the financial restructuring of a German automotive supplier by way of an insolvency plan and sale of outstanding loans to the sponsor*
• A Swedish manufacturer on its financial restructuring, in particular with regard to liquidation scenarios concerning certain of its distressed German subsidiaries* 
• A Spanish PE fund on the acquisition of an European healthcare business headquartered in Germany out of insolvency proceedings*
• A secured syndicate lender (German bank) on the financial restructuring of a German project developer by way of a debt/debt-swap*
• A trustee in connection with a double-sided restructuring trust (Sanierungstreuhand) over one of Germany’s largest and state-owned energy suppliers*
• A trustee in connection with a double-sided restructuring trust over an international industrial group as part of an out-of-court financial restructuring process*
• A security trustee for the benefit of the lender of a DIP / (genuine) priority loan (Massedarlehen)*
• An US manufacturing group on the conclusion of a JV as well as a complex I/C reorganization (including mergers / solvent liquidations)*
• A listed German stock company on the restructuring of its German law governed bond by way of partial debt/equity-swap and debt/debt-swap*
• A German airline on the initiation and conduct of insolvency proceedings including the temporary continuation of flight operations as well as the financing of the proceedings by way of DIP / priority loans*
• An international fashion manufacturer on its financial restructuring including a debt/equity-swap by the senior lenders, debt-hive up as well as the raising of a new credit line*
• A state owned bank on certain NPL transactions*
• A senior secured lender in insolvency proceedings including representing the client in the creditors’ committee / meeting*
• The European affiliates of a Japan-based international automotive supplier on their financial and operative restructuring as well as the sale of their business to an investor in the context of global recalls of defective airbags* 
• An UK PE fund on a large acquisition in the hotel sector out of insolvency proceedings conducted in Luxembourg combined with a complex restructuring of German and Lux law governed bonds*
• An UK PE fund in his capacity as lender on the enforcement of collateral (including land charges, pledges over shares and bank accounts as well as security assignments)*

*Experience prior to joining Norton Rose Fulbright

• Rechtsanwaltskammer Hamburg
• Deutscher Anwaltsverein

• German
• English