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Rechtsanwa Heinz Weil

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Work Department

• Litigation and Arbitration
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Bankruptcy law

Position

Founding Partner

Career

Heinz concentrates on advice and defence in all main fields of business law: he has been handling major disputes in the field of industrial risk and hidden defects, he has advised foreign and French clients in important M&A transactions and taken part in major European wide restructuring of business entitiesfor foreign multinationals, he has often been appointed as arbitrator or counsel for institutional (ICC type) or ad hoc international arbitrations, and handled cases before the European Courts. 

Heinz is fluent in German, French and English. He regularly participates in seminars to initiate foreign lawyers to French business law.
Heinz has been chosen by his profession to assume important functions: He is a former President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), he chairs the European Committee of the German Federal Bar, he is a Council member of the International Bar Association (IBA) and he has often served as an expert for the European Commission. 

Heinz Weil has been awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and of the Federal Republic of Austria. 

– Former President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe
– Council member of the International Bar Association (CCBE)
– Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and of the Federal Republic of Austria

Languages

German 
French 
English

Memberships

Paris Bar Association
Koblenz Bar Association