Jochen advises listed and family-owned companies and entrepreneurs on corporate law, reorganisations, corporate litigation, compliance matters and M&A transactions. For listed companies, Jochen's focus is on preparing and guiding shareholders’ meetings, dealing with questions of securities laws, corporate reorganisations, and public takeovers, as well as advising boards and directors on liability and compliance issues.

His projects in this area include: advice of Allianz SE with regard to settlements with US authorities relating to the Structured Alpha business; advice of MAN with regard to the merger related squeeze-out with TRATON; advice of Siemens with regard to the spin-off and IPO of Siemens Energy, the hive-down of pension liabilities to Siemens Healthineers and the spin-off and IPO of Osram; the cross-border merger of Linde and Praxair and the subsequent squeeze-out of minority shareholders; advice of the supervisory board of Osram with regard to the takeover offer by Bain Capital and Carlyle; the public takeover of WMF AG by and the subsequent squeeze-out and sale of WMF Group to Groupe SEB in 2012-2016.

Publications

  • Co-Author and co-editor of the legal commentary on the German Stock Corporation Act Karsten Schmidt/Lutter, AktG, 5th ed. 2024

  • Co-author and co-editor of the legal commentary on the German Transformation Act Lutter, Umwandlungsgesetz, 7th ed. 2023

  • Co-Author and co-editor of the legal commentary on the German Act on Limited Liability Companies in the beck.online.GROSSKOMMENTAR

  • Co-Author of the legal commentary on the German Stock Corporation Act Kölner Kommentar zum AktG, 3rd ed. 2019

  • Co-Author of the legal commentary on the German Act on Limited Liability Companies Münchener Kommentar zum GmbHG, 4th ed. 2021

Numerous articles and papers for compendiums and law journals. A complete list of publications can be downloaded here.

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Career

Admitted to bar 1995
Universities of Bonn anc Cologne (Dr. jur.)
University of Hagen (Dipl.-Ök. (similar to MBA))
Law firm in New York, 1996-1997