• Bank trainee at Guaranty Trust in Toronto/Canada
• Studies of law and philosophy at Eberhard Karls-University Tübingen
• Assistant at the chair for commercial and corporate law at University of Hamburg
• Doctorate at University of Hamburg, thesis „Diligenzpflichten des Gläubigers gegenüber dem Bürgen“
• Since 1985 Attorney-at-law with FONTAINE GÖTZE
• Member of numerous advisory boards, supervisory boards, managing committees, domestic and abroad, mostly as chairman

Main focus:

• Commercial and Corporate
• Succession & Inheritance
• M & A

Areas of interest

• Banking and Capital Investments
• Foundations

Language skills:

• English