Dr. Leopold Bauer

Leopold is a member of the Restructuring & Insolvency team. He advises companies, insolvency administrators and insurers on corporate and insolvency law issues and has a strong focus on insolvency related litigation, especially directors’ liability and D&O as well as E&O cases.

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Carrière

Since 2024	Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing
2017 - 2024	Associate, Taylor Wessing
2015 – 2016	Visiting researcher, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen

2011 – 2012	Visiting researcher, University of Oxford
2009 – 2016	Research associate, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg

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Formation

2017	Admitted as a lawyer, Düsseldorf
2016	Second State Examination
2009	First State Examination

Publications

German D&O insurers avoid coverage of directors’ liabilities in insolvencies, Bankruptcy & Restructuring Expert Guide 2023, 42-44

Vorstandshaftung und Expertenrat, Dissertation, Bucerius Law School Hamburg, 2022 (published in German)

Keine Business Judgment Rule für Insolvenzverwalter, ZIP 2020, 2272-2278 (published in German)

Ansprüche wegen verbotener Zahlungen in der D&O-Versicherung, ZIP 2018, 2149-2156 (co-authored with Michael Malitz, published in German)

Von Vorstandsbezügen, Flugreisen, Festschriften, Firmensponsoring und Festessen: Vorstandshaftung für übermäßige Vergütung und „fringe benfits“, ZIP 2015, 1901-1911 (co-authored with Holger Fleischer, published in German)

Zur Darlegungs- und Beweislast des Vorstands in organschaftlichen Haftungsprozessen, NZG 2015, 549-551 (published in German)

Investorenkontakte des Aufsichtsrats: Zulässigkeit und Grenzen, DB 2015, 360-368 (co-authored with Holger Fleischer and Till Wansleben, published in German)