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Andreas Ziegenhagen

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+49 30 26473 152 [email protected]

Work Department

Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy

Position

Andreas Ziegenhagen is Germany Managing Partner and European Head of the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy group. He covers the areas of Mergers and Acquisitions (legal and tax advice), Corporate Recovery and Insolvency Law, Corporate and Tax Law as well as Banking and Finance.

Andreas regularly acts as representative of bondholders and promissory note loan creditors (Schuldscheindarlehensgläubiger). He also acts regularly as a double-sided trustee in distressed situations. In debtor-in-possession insolvency proceedings Andreas acts as a fully authorized representative (Chief Insolvency Officer) for restructuring by insolvency plan proceedings. He is one of the few German lawyers who is both a qualified accountant and a tax consultant.

Andreas is a Partner at Dentons in Frankfurt/Berlin and Director of Dentons GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft Steuerberatungsgesellschaft. Prior to joining Dentons in 2006, Andreas spent his entire career at Haarmann Hemmelrath & Partner, where he became partner in 2001 and head of the Corporate Recovery and Insolvency practice group in 2004. He is member of the Global and European Board of Dentons. Andreas is also the editor-in-chief of the insolvency law magazine with the highest circulation in Germany, ZInsO FOKUS Sanierung, Wolters Kluwer Verlag and a member of the Executive Committee of the Insolvency and Restructuring Working Group of the German Bar Association (DAV).

Career

  • Germany Managing Partner, Dentons (formerly Salans), Frankfurt and Berlin, 2008 to date
  • Partner, Dentons (formerly Salans), Berlin, 2006 to date
  • Head of the practice group Corporate Recovery and Insolvency, Haarmann, Hemmelrath & Partner, Berlin, 2004-2005
  • Partner, Haarmann, Hemmelrath & Partner, 2001-2005
  • Associate, Haarmann, Hemmelrath & Partner, 1997-2001
  • Research Assistant, Freie Universität Berlin, 1995-1997

Memberships

  • Member, TMA Deutschland
  • Member, INSOL Europe
  • Member, American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI)
  • Board member, Berlin/Brandenburger Arbeitskreis für Insolvenzrecht e.V.
  • Member, Arbeitskreis für Insolvenzwesen Köln e.V.
  • Member, Deutsche Steuerjuristische Gesellschaft e.V.
  • Member, Verein zur Förderung des Bilanz- und Steuerrechts sowie der Wirtschaftsprüfung Berlin/Brandenburg e.V.
  • Member, Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer in Deutschland e.V.

Education

Certified Public Auditor, Germany, 2004

Certified Tax Advisor, Germany, 2000

Legal clerkship, 1995-1997

Admitted to the bar, Germany, 1997

Europa-Kolleg Hamburg, 1995

Freie Universität Berlin, 1994, Legal studies

Training as assistant tax consultant, 1990

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Deutschland > Restrukturierung und Insolvenz > Restrukturierung

Dentons’ Restrukturierungspraxis verfügt über besondere Expertise in der Strukturierung von doppelnützigen Treuhandschaften und anderen kreditgebergeleiteten Sanierungslösungen unter Einsatz einer Sanierungsgesellschaft sowie in der Vertretung der Interessen von Anleihe- und Schuldscheingläubigern als auch im Distressed M&A-Bereich. So widmet sich auch Arne Friel, der die Praxis gemeinsam mit Andreas Ziegenhagen leitet, der Begleitung grenzüberschreitender Distressed-Transaktionen, während Ziegenhagen, der zudem als European Head der Praxisgruppe Restrukturierung agiert, regelmäßig als doppelnütziger Treuhänder in Sanierungsfällen auftritt und zudem in der Vertretung von Anleihegläubigern sowie der Beratung von Schuldscheindarlehen im Rahmen von Restrukturierungen versiert ist.

Germany > Restructuring and insolvency > Restructuring

Dentons ‘ restructuring practice has particular expertise in the structuring of hybrid trusteeships and other creditor-led restructuring solutions using a restructuring company, as well as matters pertaining to bond and promissory note creditors and distressed M&A. The team is co-led by Arne Friel and Andreas Ziegenhagen; Friel is well versed in cross-border distressed transactions, while Ziegenhagen acts as European Head of the Restructuring Practice Group and focuses on restructuring via trusteeships; the latter is also experienced  in representing bond creditors and regularly advises on promissory note loans.

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