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Financial Services and Insurance Law - Insolvency Law & Restructuring
Dr Moritz Handrup is Partner at ADVANT Beiten's Frankfurt office and member of the Banking, Finance & Restructuring practice group. He focuses on restructuring, corporate rescue and insolvency. He is specialised in the restructuring and corporate rescue of companies. In addition, Dr Handrup advises and represents his clients out of court and in court, in arbitration and mediation proceedings. Key issues are asserting, or defending against, claims arising from the contest of transactions in insolvency proceedings (Insolvenzanfechtung) and claims for directors' and officers' liability (Organhaftung), as well as other insolvency-specific questions. He provides legal advice and represents insolvency administrators, creditors and other parties involved in corporate insolvencies.
Dr Handrup studied law at the University of Cologne where he obtained a doctoral degree with a thesis on an insolvency law-related topic under the supervision of Prof Dr Hanns Prütting. He was admitted to the German Bar in 2015. Before joining ADVANT Beiten in 2017, Dr Handrup worked as a lawyer in the insolvency administration of an international commercial law firm in Dortmund. In 2020 Dr Moritz Handrup became Partner.
Books:
The Securing of Software Licenses in Case of Licensor's Insolvency
Dr Moritz Handrup
Verlag (publishing house) Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 2015
Essays/Articles:
Jaffé again with a difficult mission
Dr. Moritz Handrup, Heinrich Meyer and Maike Pflästerer (mentioned)
in: juve.de, 04. October 2022
The Expansion of the Liability for Destruction of the Economic Basis (Existenzvernichtungs-haftung) through the Federal Supreme Court and the Repercussions on Structuring under Corporate Law
Dr Moritz Handrup and Frank R. Primozic
in: NZI 2019, p. 266 et seq.
Lexology Navigator Restructuring & Insolvency Germany
Dr Moritz Handrup and Heinrich Meyer
October 2018
Remarks on FCJ decision dated 1 December 2011 - IX ZB 232/10, Opening of Insolvency Pro-ceedings with Regard to a Foreign Company
Dr Moritz Handrup
in: Betriebs-Berater, 2012, p. 925 et seq.
Lectures:
"Claims Management and Contestation of Insolvency" on 28 March 2019 at IHK (Chamber of Industry and Commerce) Offenbach;
"Unlimited Contestation or: Is the Insolvency Administrator always Right?“ on 27 September 2018 in Frankfurt.
