Partner

Michael Neises

Frankfurt

+49 69 975 61-303 +49 69 975 61-200

Languages
German, English
Consulting focuses
  • Corporate Finance
  • Financing
  • Finance Law
  • Capital Markets
  • Going Public
  • Shareholder Activism
  • Stock Corporation Law
  • Corporate Law
  • Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)
  • Acquisition financing
  • Corporate finance
  • Project financing
  • Ship financing
  • Mezzanine/Debt fund financing
  • Capital market financing
  • Corporate / M&A
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Vita

  • Co-Head of the Banking & Finance Practice Group
  • Admitted (Rechtsanwalt) / 2009 (Solicitor (England & Wales)) since 2001
  • Education and former activities
  • German Boutique Law Firm (Partner, Banking and Finance, Capital Markets Law; M&A) September 2010 – September 2013
  • Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP (Head of German Desk, London Office, Local Partner, Banking and Finance, Capital Markets Law; M&A)April 2008 – August 2010
  • BPP Law School – QLTT Solicitor (England and Wales)
  • Oktober 2004 – March 2008: Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP (Local Partner from 2007, Banking and Finance, Capital Markets Law; M&A)  October 2008 – March 2009
  • Clifford Chance LLP (Associate, Banking and Finance, Capital Markets Law)  February 2001 – September 2004
  • Second State Exam (State of Hesse)  Januar 2001
  • First State Exam (Lower Saxony)  October 1998
  • Law School (Universities of Marburg, Freiburg and Göttingen)October 1993 – October 1998
  •  Deutsche Bank AG Hannover / MagdeburgAugust 1990 – September 1993

Affiliations

  • DKS e.V. (Deutsche Kreditmarkt-Standards)
  • International Bar Association (IBA)
  • Law Society
  • Frankfurter Juristische Gesellschaft e.V.
  • German Lawyer Association (DAV)

Michael Neises's Distinctions

Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2024

Best Lawyers 2025

JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2023/2024

Leaders League 2024

Best Lawyers 2024

Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2023

JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2022/2023

Leaders League 2023

Best Lawyers 2023

Leaders League 2022

JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2021/2022

Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2022

Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2021

Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2021

Best Lawyers 2022

Legal 500 EMEA 2021

Leaders League 2021

Legal 500 Germany 2021

Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2020

Best Lawyers 2021

Legal 500 EMEA 2020

Legal 500 Germany 2020

Handelsblatt: Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2019

Best Lawyers 2020

Legal 500 EMEA 2019

Legal 500 Germany 2019

JUVE Award 2016

Events

Speaker at Conferences (e.g. Structured Finance Conference, Stuttgart, 2020, 2019, 2018: expert slots on “Recent Trends in Covenant-Lite and Covenant-Loose Financings”; Restructuring Summit, Frankfurt; C5 Commercial Lending, Amsterdam und Frankfurt; Euroforum, Frankfurt)

Publications

2024

Neuregelung zum deutschen NPL-Markt – Kreditzweitmarktgesetz in Kraft seit 30. Dezember 2023
Restructuring Update 01/2024 und Banking & Finance Update 01/2024,
together with Dr. Arnold Büssemaker, Licencié en droit, Christian Staps, Dr. Karolina Badura

2023

The Secondary Credit Market Act – a new regulation for the German NPL market (effective from 30 December 2023)
Update Restrukturierung 02/2023 & Update Banking & Finance 01/2023,
together with Dr. Arnold Büssemaker, Licencié en droit, Dr. Karolina Badura, Christian Staps

2022

Heuking und PwC Legal beraten bei Messe-Joint-Venture
JUVE Rechtsmarkt,  January 26, 2022

2021

Unlimited Personal Liability of Shareholders in Air Berlin PLC as a result of BREXIT?
Update Shareholder Activism No. 3,
together with Christian Staps
Der Fall GameStop – Handlungsmöglichkeiten für börsennotierte Unternehmen nach deutschem Recht im Falle eines Short Squeeze
Update Shareholder Activism No. 2,
together with Michèle von Lewinski

2020

Lectures

2022

M&A Transaktionen in unsicheren Zeiten: Risikomanagement durch rechtliche Lösungen
20. Deutscher Corporate M&A-Kongress, October 04, 2022, Frankfurt

2019

2016

Recent Developments in the German Finance Markets
WSG Banking & Finance Group Meeting 2016, February 5, 2016, in Frankfurt am Main
The Syndicated Loan – recent Developments regarding Documentation and Restructuring
presentation during “Financial Restructuring I – Special Situation Financing” conference organized by Dr. Wieselhuber & Partner in Frankfurt on September 21, 2015, Düsseldorf on November 2, 2015, Hamburg on November 9, 2015Berlin on November 23, 2015, Stuttgart on January 18, 2016, Munich on January 25, 2016

2015

Aktuelle rechtliche Herausforderungen bei der Investor Relations-Kommunikation - Die Selbstbefreiung von der Ad-hoc-Mitteilungspflicht
CIRO - Alumni - Workshop,  18th DIRK – Conference in Frankfurt

2013

Speaker at Conferences
(Restructuring Summit, Frankfurt; C5 Commercial Lending, Amsterdam and Frankfurt, Euroforum, Frankfurt)

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