Dr. Sebastian Schneider

Partner
  • Studies in Hamburg and New York; Doctorate at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg (Dr. iur.)
  • Legal clerkship (Referendariat) in Hamburg, Berlin and San Francisco
  • Admission as attorney-at-law (Rechtsanwalt) in Germany
  • Previously lawyer at Latham & Watkins in Hamburg and DLA Piper in Munich

 

Practice Areas:

 

Languages: German, English

Selected References

  • Representing an insolvency administrator against a declaratory model action of a consumer protection association in connection with a new customer bonus for energy supply contracts*
  • Representing a globally leading electronic automotive group in numerous customer disputes regarding warranty and damages claims*
  • Representing a globally leading automotive group in a mass litigation regarding warranty and damages claims relating to the specified exhaust emission standards for diesel vehicles*
  • Representing a shareholder of a globally leading nutrition company in a dispute with another shareholder and a will executor*
  • Representing a MDAX company in the health care sector in shareholder resolution rescission and release proceedings*
  • Representing an European private equity fund in an expert appraiser proceeding as well as the subsequent ICC arbitration in relation to the acquisition of an international company in the packaging industry*
  • Representing an Asian joint venture partner in ICC arbitrations in relation to a dispute with the European joint venture partner*
  • Representing a publicly listed company in connection with asserting D&O liability claims regarding a press known international “fake CEO” case*
  • Representing a German state bank in connection with asserting D&O liability claims against its former members of the board of management and board of administration due to the failed acquisition of a bank*
  • Representing a globally leading IT group in a DIS arbitration relating to various claims in connection with the orderly performance of an extensive, high-volume IT outsourcing project*
  • Representing a globally leading private equity fund in various litigation matters stemming from disclosure duty breaches in relation to the acquisition of a real estate complex*
  • Representing a seller in numerous litigations against an international health care provider in relation to the going private of hospitals*
  • Representing a community of heirs in numerous litigations against the will executor (including interim judicial measures)*
  • Representing a leading consortium for the operation of data centers in a dispute against a state-owned company in connection with the exertion of call options*
  • Representing a leading company in the event business in a DIS arbitration as well as in a litigation against a joint venture partner*
  • Representing a globally leading computer manufacturer in a shareholder adequate compensation proceeding in relation to a control and profit transfer agreement*
  • Representing a globally leading hotel company in a shareholder adequate compensation proceeding in relation to a control agreement*
  • Representing a globally leading company in the plastics business in a shareholder adequate compensation proceeding in relation to a squeeze out under the stock corporation law*
  • Representing a globally leading company in the cosmetics business in shareholder adequate compensation proceedings in relation to a delisting and in relation to a squeeze out under the stock corporation law*
  • Representing an international publisher in a dispute against a global publishing group in connection with claims resulting from a cross-border distribution agreement*
  • Representing a globally leading company in the semiconductor business in a dispute with a customer regarding damages claims*
  • Representing an international company in a dispute against a transmission system operator in connection with information and payment claims regarding the Renewable Energies Act levy*

*in previous law firms

 

Publications

  • Chapter on capital raising (Kapitalaufbringung), in: Münchener Anwaltshandbuch GmbH-Recht, pp. 313 - 376,  4th edition, 2018 (together with Prof Dr Götz Tobias Wiese).
  • The analysis of biological descent without legal consequences pursuant to Sec. 1598a BGB - under special consideration of the paternity pretender’s exclusion (Die rechtsfolgenlose Klärung der biologischen Abstammung gemäß § 1598a BGB – Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Exklusion des Vaterschaftsprätendenten), Dissertation, Hamburg, 2014
  • Competence issues in the context of ad hoc publicity (Zuständigkeitsfragen im Rahmen der Ad-hoc-Publizität), ZIP 2013, 1607 (together with Dr Dirk Kocher)

Dr. Sebastian Schneider

Karlstr. 10
D-80333 Munich
Germany



T: +49 89 89 05 89-262
F: +49 89 89 05 89-299
schneider@glns.de
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