Michael Schmidt

Since many years the practice of Michael Schmidt has been advising medium-sized listed and unlisted companies, business-owners and shareholders in legal matters linked to the areas of Banking- and Finance-Law, Civil-, Commercial- and Corporate-Law and on contract law. As a long-standing experienced litigator he represents the interests of companies, business-owners, shareholders, managers and private individuals both in judicial disputes before ordinary courts and in out-of-court negotiations, as well as in arbitration courts.

Michael Schmidt is an assistant lecturer on German civil law at the University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld, co-writer of the specialist publication Wurm Wagner Zartmann, „Das Rechtsformularbuch“ published by the publishing house of Dr. Otto Schmidt and a member of the German Bar Association (DAV,) as well as the Bar Association of Düsseldorf (Dus-AV).

• Ongoing advising of a bank referring to banking and capital markets issues
• Conducting of IPOs on behalf of an issuing bank
• Advising of a leading provider of e-business, e-brokerage and e-banking solutions in Germany in preparing agreements, standard terms and conditions as well as other documents
• Legal representation of an investment fund based in Liechtenstein with respect to a wind farm project
• Ongoing representation of banks in civil and commercial disputes as well as arbitration proceedings
• Commissioning by renowned insurance companies in case of liability claims of their policy holdersLegal representation of renowned plant engineering companies in disputes either out-of-court or in-court and also within the framework of arbitration proceedings