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    Christian Burmeister
    ADVANT Beiten - Berlin - Freiburg
    Rechtsanwalt
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    Christian Burmeister

    ADVANT Beiten - Berlin - Freiburg
    Rechtsanwalt
    Partner

    LANGUAGES

    English / German

    Practice Areas

    Corporate/M&A - Dispute Resolution

    Sectors

    Digital, Media & Technology - Energy - Industrials

    Contacts

    T Berlin: +49 30 26471-0

    T Freiburg: +49 761 150984-18

    F Berlin: +49 30 26471-123

    F Freiburg: +49 761 150984-99

    Christian.Burmeister@advant-beiten.com

    Expertise

    Christian Burmeister is Partner at ADVANT Beiten’s offices in Freiburg and Berlin and member of the Corporate/M&A practice group. He advises national and international clients on corporate law, M&A transactions, joint ventures and venture capital/private equity. His practice focuses on takeovers, investments and restructurings. He also advises in context of shareholder disputes.

    Christian Burmeister studied law at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and Queens' College in Cambridge. He completed his legal traineeship at the Berlin Court of Appeal and worked for national and international commercial law firms in Berlin and New York. He was admitted to the German Bar in 2017. Before joining ADVANT Beiten in 2022, he worked for the leading German commercial law firm Noerr in Berlin.

    Awards

    Recommended Lawyer
    The Legal 500 Germany & EMEA 2025

    "Highest speed and highest quality combined with forward thinking. The difference to other law firms: Here, the particularities of the clients are particularly well familiarised with, including the different personalities and their specific characteristics."

    Ones to Watch
    Best Lawyers in Kooperation mit Handelsblatt 2025

    Christian Burmeister is listed among Germany’s "Ones to Watch" experts for Corporate Law.

    Recommended Lawyer
    The Legal 500 Germany & EMEA 2024

    Track Record

    ADVANT Beiten advises Naxnova on Acquisition of a Majority Stake in HS Products Engineering
    Freiburg, 22 April 2025 – The international law firm ADVANT Beiten has provided …
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    ADVANT Beiten advises ENGIE Germany on the sale of Solarimos' nationwide tenant electricity portfolio to Einhundert Energie
    Freiburg/Berlin, 15 April 2025 – The international law firm ADVANT Beiten advise…
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    ADVANT Beiten Advises Banyan Software on Acquisition of FoxInsights
    Freiburg, 10 February 2025 - The international law firm ADVANT Beiten has provid…
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    ADVANT Beiten Advises the Publishing Group Herder Verlag on Acquisition of History Magazines from Roularta Media Group
    Freiburg, 7 November 2024 – The international law firm ADVANT Beiten has provide…
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    ADVANT Beiten and ADVANT Nctm Advise BKW on Expansion of its Interest in HelveticWind
    Freiburg, 17 July 2024 – The international law firm ADVANT Beiten has − together…
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    ADVANT Beiten Advises ENGIE New Ventures on a Further Investment in INERATEC in the Context of a Series B Financing
    Freiburg, 24 January 2024 – The international commercial law firm ADVANT Beiten has provided comprehensive legal advice to ENGIE New Ventures, the venture capital fund of the global energy supplier ENGIE, …
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    ADVANT Beiten Advises Wörwag Pharma on Takeover of Mauermann Arzneimittel KG
    Freiburg, 22 September 2023 – The international law firm ADVANT Beiten has provided comprehensive legal advice to Wörwag Pharma GmbH & Co. KG on the takeover of Mauermann Arzneimittel KG. The parties agree…
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    ADVANT Beiten Advises Educapital on the Investment in Tomorrows Education GmbH
    Freiburg, 21 June 2023 – The international law firm ADVANT Beiten has provided legal advice to Educapital, the first European investment fund specialising in Educational Technology (EdTech), on its investm…
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    ADVANT Beiten Advises Schmidt + Bartl on the Sale of a Share to VR Equitypartner and UnternehmensGut
    Freiburg, 25. November 2022 – ADVANT Beiten has advised Schmidt + Bartl GmbH, an expert for technical plastic products based in the Black Forest, on the sale of shares to the Frankfurt holding company VR E…
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    Seven New Equity Partners: Strong Growth From Own Ranks
    Munich, 23 November 2022 - For the international law firm ADVANT Beiten, all signs clearly point to growth: Following the partners' meeting yesterday, Tuesday, seven new Equity Partners from the firm's own…
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    Freiburg: ADVANT Beiten Opens Office with a Team of 16 Professionals from Friedrich Graf von Westphalen in the Southwest of Germany
    Munich/Freiburg, 5 April 2022 – ADVANT Beiten is expected to open an office in Freiburg in the second half of 2022 and has won a team of 16 professionals for this purpose from Friedrich Graf von Westphalen…
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    Publications

    Publications

    Admissibility of a termination clause in the form of a vesting provision in a start-up company
    Christian Burmeister & Damien Heinrich
    in: IWRZ, 1/2025, p. 37 et seq.

    Order for Reference on the Necessity of Catching Up on the Negotiation Procedure for Employee Involvement in the SE
    Christian Burmeister & Simon Schuler
    in: IWRZ 1/2023, p. 33 et seq.

    Commentary on company law (§§ 17, 21-24 HGB)
    Christian Burmeister & Tibor Fedke
    in: Henssler (Publ.) beck-online Großkommentar HGB

    Obligation of a trustor limited partner of a publicly traded GmbH & Co. KG despite revocation of the accession
    Christian Burmeister
    in: DB 2018, 1135

    Legal consequences of a breach of duty in the management of the external partner of an internal partnership under civil law (GbR) 
    Christian Burmeister
    in: DB 2018, 3109 f.