Attorney-at-law and partner at SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz Rechtsanwalts AG
Current activity
Professional focus
- Arbitration and litigation with a focus on corporate law
- group law
- corporate liability
- D&O
- (Post-)M&A and capital markets law including Capital Markets Model Case Act (KapMuG) proceedings
Areas of law
My career
- 1988-1992 Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz
- 1992 First State Examination
- 1992-1996 assistant at the University of Mannheim
- 1994 Dr. jur., University of Mannheim
- 1996 Second State Examination
- Since 1993 Attorney-at-law at Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz
- From 2000 to 2008 partner at Shearman & Sterling
- Lecturer at Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg and Westfälische Wilhelms-University in Münster (Master programme Mergers & Acquisitions), examiner in the First State Examination in Baden-Wuerttemberg
Arbitration experience
Counsel and arbitrator in numerous arbitration proceedings (ad hoc and institutional), in particular in complex corporate matters (e.g. disputes between large companies or internal disputes in family-owned companies, (post-)M&A)
Publications
- Regular speaker at seminars concerning stock corporation and group law
- author of numerous publications in particular on corporate and group law, e.g. Münchener Kommentar zum GmbHG, commentary on appendix § 13 GmbH-Konzernrecht and §§ 45, 46, 48 bis 51, 2. ed. 2015)
- Reichert, GmbH & Co. KG, 7. ed. 2015, commentary on §§ 1 bis 3, 13, 14, 16, 17 und 50
- Henssler/Strohn, Kommentar zum Gesellschaftsrecht, 2. ed. 2014, commentary on §§ 118 ff. AktG
- Happ, Konzern- und Umwandlungsrecht, Kapitel „Unternehmensverträge"
- Semler/Volhard/Reichert, Arbeitshandbuch für die Hauptversammlung, commentary on §§ 33 bis 35, 49, 3. ed. 2011
- Beck´sches der AG, 2. ed. 2008, commentary on §§ 6 and 14
Languages
- German
- English
Memberships
- DIS
- VGR
- Chairman of the Association for the promotion of practice-oriented legal education and training at the University of Heidelberg