Competencies
Practice Areas
- Transactional work, in particular company acquisitions, real estate share deals and joint ventures
- Company law, in particular the German stock corporation act and the limited liability companies act
- Shareholder disputes
- Insolvency and creditor advisory services
- Corporate restructuring
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Education and Professional Experience
- Lawyer at GSK Stockmann since 2002
- Worked in a major international law firm in the practice areas of company law, M&A, banking and capital markets
- Doctorate (Dr. jur.) from the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
- Admitted to practise law in Germany (1999)
- Research assistant at the Chair of Civil Law (Prof. Dr. Detlef Leenen), Freie Universität Berlin
- Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and at New York University, School of Law, New York, (Master of Comparative Jurisprudence, M.C.J.)
Languages
- English, German
Awards
- Recommended lawyer in the field of “M&A” (Juve Handbuch 2023/2024)
- Ranking “Germany’s Best Lawyers 2023” in the area of “Corporate Law” (Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers in Germany)
- Recommended lawyer in the field of “Corporate Law” and “M&A” (The Legal 500 2023)
- Recommended lawyer in the field of “M&A” (Juve Handbuch 2022/2023)
- Ranking “Germany’s Best Lawyers 2022” in the area of “Corporate Law” (Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers in Germany)
- Recommended lawyer in the field of “Corporate Law” (The Legal 500 2022)
- Recommended lawyer in the field of “M&A” (Juve Handbuch 2021/2022)
- Ranking “Germany’s Best Lawyers 2021” in the area of “Corporate Law” (Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers in Germany)
- Recommended lawyer in the field of “Corporate Law” (The Legal 500 2021)
- Ranking “Germany’s Best Lawyers 2020” in the area of “Corporate Law” (Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers in Germany)
Lectures and events
- Stobbe, Michael: Position and responsibility of the Supervisory Board, Workshop for a.o.: Cooper Standard, June 2016.
- Stobbe, Michael: Bank responsibility and capital preservation, Workshop for a.o.: Berliner Volksbank, January 2016.
- Stobbe, Michael: Share purchase (share deal) in property transactions, Workshop for a.o.: BNP Paribas Real Estate, January 2013 / Allianz January, 2013 / Zech-Gruppe (Art Invest), June 2012 / SIGNA Real Estate, 2014.
Publications
- Stobbe, Michael: Focussing through spin-off of parts of the company, in: FAZ Frankfurter Allg. Sonntagszeitung, 25 June 2017, Page 3.
- Stobbe, Michael / Kahler, Jörg: IP rights in M&A transactions, in: FINANCE Magazin, Sonderbeilage Top-Kanzleien, Edition 1/2016, Page 6.
- Stobbe, Michael: Financial information in securities prospectuses under the new law, in: Going Public, May 2006, Page 30.
- Stobbe, Michael: The enforcement of corporate law claims of the insolvent GmbH in the interest of creditors, Diss. Univ. Jena 1999.
