Dr. Michael Lamsa

Michael specialises in national and cross-border M&A transactions and advises, in particular, strategic investors and financial investors from Germany and abroad.

Michael also focuses on advising clients on corporate law, covering a broad range of areas, including management buy-outs, management participations, official takeovers, venture capital, joint ventures, reorganisations, and restructurings. Moreover, Michael is also a lecturer at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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Career

Since 2019	Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing Germany
2015 – 2019	Associate, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in the practice group Corporate, M&A and Private Equity, Frankfurt am Main
2008 – 2015	Associate, Clifford Chance in the practice group Corporate, M&A and Private Equity, Frankfurt am Main

2005	Admitted to the profession as lawyer
2004 – 2008	Research fellow, Institute for Private International Law and Comparative Law of Rheinische Friedrich–Wilhelms–University Bonn, Chair Prof. Dr. Wulf–Henning Roth, LL.M., Harvard

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Education

2009	Ph.D., thesis: 'Business names of oversea companies - formation, declaration and protection of business names of oversea companies in Germany with special consideration of the specifications of the European Community Law', Rheinische Friedrich–Wilhelms–University Bonn
2004	Second state exam, Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg
2002	First state exam, University of Bayreuth

Publications

Annotation of sections 8 - 14, 15a - 24, 29 - 37a of the German Commercial Code in: Thomas Heidel/Alexander Schall (ed.), German Commercial Code – Commentary, Nomos, 2nd edition 2015
Generic words in the business name of a German branch of an EU oversea company – Annotation of decision of Regional Court of Aachen, 10.04.2007 – 44 T 8/07 in IPRax 2008, p. 239 - 246
Limitation of promissory estoppel in case of omission of the designation of legal form (here: B.V.) to the acting representative – Annotation of decision of Federal Supreme Court, 05.02.2007 – ZR 84/05 in EWiR 2007, p. 513 - 514
Registration of the business of an EU oversea company with unpronounceable graphical symbols – Annotation of decision of Austrian Federal Supreme Court, 07.11.2007 – 6 Ob 218/07p in EWiR 2008, p. 377 - 378
No registration of a business name consisting of unpronounceable letter combinations – Annotation of decision of Higher Regional Court Celle, 06.07.2006 – 9 W 61/06 in EWiR 2006, p. 657 - 658
Annotation of sections 53 - 85 Companies Act 2006 in Alexander Schall (ed.), Companies Act, Verlag C.H. Beck, 1st edition 2014
Registration of a German partnership company (PartGmbB) in the German partnership register – Annotation of decision of Higher Regional Court Nuremberg, 05.02.2014 – 12 W 351/14 in EWiR 2014, p. 445 - 446
Business names of oversea companies – formation, declaration and protection of business nNames of pversea companies in Germany with special consideration of the specifications of the European Community Law, Mohr Siebeck, 2011
The directive on alternative investment funds mangers (AIFM-Directive) in Corporate Finance Law 2011, p. 39 – 47 (together with Burc Hesse)
No registration of a business name in case of danger of confusion with the designation of the legal form of a partnership company – Annotation of decision of Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf, 09.10.2009 – I-3 Wx 182/09 in EWiR 2010, p. 371 - 372
Non EU foreigners as managing directors of a German GmbH without opportunity to enter the EU any time – Annotation of decision of Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf, 16.04.2009 – I-3 Wx 85/09 in EWiR 2009, p. 573 - 574
Permissibility of concatenation of letter combinations – Annotation of decision of Federal Supreme Court, 08.12.2008 – II ZB 46/07 in GmbHR 2009, p. 251 - 252
Restrictions for Swiss stock corporations with head of administration in Germany continue to apply – Annotation of decision of Federal Supreme Court, 27.10.2008 – II ZR 158/06 (“Trabrennbahn”) in Betriebs-Berater 2009, p. 16 - 18