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Tobias Rhode, LL.B.
Tobias Rhode, LL.B.

Tobias Rhode, LL.B.

Salary Partner

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Tobias is a lawyer in the practice area corporate and restructuring. He advises companies, managing directors, shareholders and creditors on restructuring as well as general insolvency law issues and on corporate transactions.

Furthermore, Tobias assists insolvency administrators and creditors in asserting or defending insolvency-specific claims. A special focus of his consulting activities is the corporate law support of companies or shareholders in protective shield, self-administration and insolvency plan proceedings as well as the support of investors and insolvency administrators in company acquisitions from insolvency or crisis. Tobias is a certified restructuring manager (DGfKM).

Expertise

Services and Groups

Restructuring & insolvency
Advising insolvency administrators
Distressed M&A
Corporate insolvency
Advising management
Creditors' rights
Financial restructuring for corporates
Cross-border restructuring & insolvency
Distressed debt
Insolvency disputes & investigations
Pensions insolvency
Personal insolvency
Real estate restructuring

CV

Since 2023 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing
2021 - 2023 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2018 – 2021 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2021 Specialized legal course in insolvency law
2021 Certified restructuring manager (DGfKM)
2018 Admitted as lawyer, Hamburg
2018 Second state examination
2016 – 2018 Legal clerkship, Bremen with postings at leading international law firms, Hamburg
2016 First state examination
2014 LL.B.
2009 – 2016 Legal studies and business administration, University of Mannheim

Career

Since 2023 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing
2021 - 2023 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2018 – 2021 Associate, Taylor Wessing

Education

2021 Specialized legal course in insolvency law
2021 Certified restructuring manager (DGfKM)
2018 Admitted as lawyer, Hamburg
2018 Second state examination
2016 – 2018 Legal clerkship, Bremen with postings at leading international law firms, Hamburg
2016 First state examination
2014 LL.B.
2009 – 2016 Legal studies and business administration, University of Mannheim

Publications

Medizinische Versorgungszentren in der Krise – Präventive Sanierung und Restrukturierung über StaRUG in der Praxis, in: NWB Sanieren 3/2023, S. 78-82

Anmerkung zu AG Hannover, Beschluss vom 14.3.2023 – 951 RES 1/23, in: Der SanierungsBerater 2/2023, S. 52-53, gemeinsam mit Ole Schudwitz

Erstes StaRUG-Verfahren in Schleswig-Holstein - ein Restrukturierungsfall im Gesundheitswesen, in: Der Sanierungsberater, 03/2023

„StaRUG Verfahren trotz (vermeintlicher) Überschuldung“ in: Der SanierungsBerater 3-4/2022, S. 60-65, gemeinsam mit Ole Schudwitz

„Positive Fortbestehungsprognose? Neue Entwicklungen zum Überschuldungsbegriff für ‚Start-up-Unternehmen‘“ in: Der SanierungsBerater 04/2021, gemeinsam mit Dr. Leonard Szabó

Neue und bekannte Entwicklungen in der Geschäftsführerhaftung unter dem SanInsFoG, in: Der SanierungsBerater 04/2020, Seite 160-165, gemeinsam mit Miriam Benz

Beratung und Schwierigkeiten von Geschäftsleitern im Kontext des COVInsAG, in: Der SanierungsBerater 02/2020, S. 63-69, gemeinsam mit Miriam Benz

Memberships & Associations

Forum Junge Insolvenzrechtler

Norddeutsches Insolvenzforum Hamburg e.V.

Additional languages

English

Experience

MVZ Group: Taylor Wessing accompanies the first StaRUG procedure in Schleswig-Holstein

Taylor Wessing, together with restructuring experts from PUKE DRESEN MALL, has successfully concluded the first court proceedings within the framework of the Corporate Stabilization and Restructuring Act (StaRUG) in Schleswig-Holstein.

Dr. Martin Heidrich, LL.M.
Rebecca Gabriel
Tobias Rhode, LL.B.

Advising Köver GmbH & Co. KG metal and plastics processing on restructuring by means of (provisional) self-administration

The medium-sized Köver GmbH & Co. KG has filed an application for reorganization as part of a self-administration process at the competent district court

Press release
Dr. Martin Heidrich, LL.M.
Tobias Rhode, LL.B.

Advising the insolvency administrator Hendrik Gittermann on the sale of the steel construction division of Nobiskrug Werft to the Heinrich Rönner Group

The Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft acquires the traditional Rendsburger shipyard Nobiskrug GmbH from insolvency.

Dr. Martin Heidrich, LL.M.
Tobias Rhode, LL.B.
Rebecca Gabriel

Taylor Wessing advises Insolvency Administrator on the sale of the Veritas Group to HDT Automotive Solutions

The US based supplier HDT Automotive Solutions is acquiring in the course of the insolvency proceedings the German automotive and industrial supplier including the international subsidiaries in Asia, North America and Europe.

Dr. Martin Heidrich, LL.M.
Dr. Tillmann Pfeifer
Tobias Rhode, LL.B.
Dr. Daniel Graske
Timo Stellpflug
Dr. Jan Kern
Hannes Tutt
Niels Heim
Dr. Marco Hartmann-Rüppel, Dipl.-Volkswirt

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Taylor Wessing Advises Strangeworks on the Acquisition of Quantagonia

1 September 2025

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Snocks takes over insolvent FEMTIS GmbH with Taylor Wessing

22 May 2025

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Taylor Wessing advises BayWa r.e. on the sale of two wind farms to KGAL Investment Management

21 May 2025

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