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    Dr Moritz Handrup
    ADVANT Beiten - Frankfurt/Main
    Rechtsanwalt
    Equity Partner

    Dr Moritz Handrup

    ADVANT Beiten - Frankfurt/Main
    Rechtsanwalt
    Equity Partner

    Contacts

    T : +49 69 756095-424

    F : +49 69 756095-512

    Moritz.Handrup@advant-beiten.com

    Expertise

    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.

    Publications

    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.