Daniel Friedemann Fritz > Dentons > Frankfurt, Germany > Lawyer Profile

Dentons
Thurn-und-Taxis-Platz 6
60313 FRANKFURT AM MAIN
Germany

Work Department

Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy

Position

Daniel Friedemann Fritz is a partner in Dentons’ Frankfurt office. He is a member of the Restructuring practice and focuses on restructuring and insolvency law related matters, incl. European and international insolvency law. Daniel has extensive experience in insolvency administration and representing enterprises, management and creditors in restructuring, debtor-in-possession and regular insolvency proceedings, where he acts as a legal counsel or Office Holder (Chief Insolvency Officer). Daniel regularly advises in (distressed) M&A transactions. He represents his clients in and out of court in commercial and insolvency matters related to the resolutions or defense of claims by negotiation and litigation and arbitration. Daniel’s industrial focus includes the automotive, retail and healthcare sectors.

Daniel F. Fritz serves as Private Expert to the European Commission in relation to the introduction of a preventive restructuring framework and as speaker of the Working Group Europe of the German Bar Association’s (DAV) restructuring and insolvency wing. He regularly publishes and comments on German and European insolvency law.

Career

  • Partner, Dentons, 2017 to date
  • Partner, hww hermann wienberg wilhelm, 2014-2017, Frankfurt am Main
  • Partner, HERMANN RWS, 2009-2014, Frankfurt am Main
  • Junior Partner, HERMANN RWS, 2005-2008, Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main
  • Associate, HERMANN RWS (formerly Hermann, Bähr, Michl, Lenhard), 1999-2004, Leipzig

Memberships

  • Co-Chair Insolvency Office Holders Forum, INSOL Europe (until autumn 2017)
  • Speaker Working Group Europe of the German Bar Association’s restructuring and insolvency law wing, including responsibility for the technical content of the European Insolvency and Restructuring Conference in Brussels and contribution to various official statements of the German Bar Association with regard to European insolvency law
  • Conferee of Conference on European Restructuring and Insolvency Law

Education

Admitted to the bar, Germany, 2000

Legal clerkship, 1996-1999, Cottbus/Potsdam

University of Heidelberg, 1996, Legal studies

Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 1994, Legal studies