Helge is an Equity Partner at the Munich office of the German law firm Heuking Kuhn Luer Wojtek. He has almost two decades of experience advising clients on cross-border M&A deals and cross-border Corporate matters. He represents numerous international groups in all areas of Corporate and Commercial Law, particularly Mergers, Joint Ventures, Spin-offs and post-acquisition Reorganisations.

Parallel to his work for Heuking, Helge worked as an Interim General Legal Counsel (2008 - 2011) of a global, market leading group carved out of a DAX30 company and is thus also perfectly familiar with the inhouse perspective.

Helge is constantly recognized by national and international legal directories in the field of Corporate and M&A, inter alia by Legal 500 (listed as key lawyer for M&A), Leaders League (recommended for M&A Large-Cap as well as for M&A Mid-Cap), JUVE, Best Lawyers and the Handelsblatt (selected by peer review amongst the best Corporate lawyers in Germany).

Legal directory quotes include: “very committed, articulate, dynamic”; “excellent“; “outstanding“; “work(s) perfectly in three languages (German, English and French)“; “incredibly knowledgeable and a strong leader“; “great corporate lawyer, even with complex projects such as cross-border mergers”; “has an excellent strategic overview”; “characterized by excellent quality, legal knowledge and the ability to process complex transactions".

Bar Admissions
Admitted to the Bar since 2005, Munich

Education
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
University of Passau, Germany, PhD thesis on (international) Reorganisation (of group companies)
Legal Trainee in Berlin, London and Paris
Legal Language Proficiency Certificate in English and French
Scholar of the German National Academic Foundation

Professional Associations

• International Bar Association
  
• German Bar Association (DAV)
• Anglo Bavarian Club, Munich
• Oxford University Society
• Munich Lawyers Association

General Secretary of the Club économique franco-allemand de Bavière
DFJ - Deutsch-Franzoesische Juristenvereinigung e.V.


Professional Activities and Experience
Weiss Walter Fischer-Zernin, Munich
Hengeler Mueller, Berlin
Assistant Lecturer at the University of Passau, Chair for Civil, Commercial and Business Law, as well as Chair for Civil, International Private and Comparative Law

- Data-protection norms have led to new challenges when buying a company, Leaders League October 2022
- Le cabinet est ancre dans le relations juridiques franco-allemandes depuis trente-cinque ans, Decideurs Juridiques Decembre 2020
- EU will Unternehmensumbauten erleichtern, Interview im Finance Magazin, 22. August 2018
- Legal Forms of Doing Business, Doing Better Business (2017)
- Schadensersatz nach UN-Kaufrecht bei unberechtigter Vertragsaufhebung, GWR 2013, p. 163
- Die neue Mobilitaet von Gesellschaften in Europa nach "Vale" und "National Grid Indus"
GWR 2012, p. 432
- EU Verordnungen geniessen beim Einfrieren von Geldern gegenueber einer Exekutiv Order des Praesidenten der USA Anwendungsvorrang, GWR 2011, p. 340
- Generalanwalt haelt Internet Gluecksspielmonopol fuer inlaendische Gesellschaft auch bei intensiver Werbung fuer moeglich, GWR 2011, p. 191
- Darlehensrueckgewaehr einer GmbH an auslaendischen Gesellschafter unmittelbar vor Insolvenzantrag ist nach deutschem Recht anfechtbar, GWR 2011, p. 72
- Debt Mezzanine Swap Koenigsweg fuer die Restrukturierungsfinanzierung?, BB 06/2010, p. 299
- Beschluss ueber die Liquidations­bilanz darf auf Grundlage der allgemeinen Mehrheitsklausel einer Publikums-GbR erfolgen, GWR 2010, p. 399
- Gestaltungsfreiheit und Glaeubigerschutz bei Spaltungen, Peter Lang Verlagsgruppe, 2010
- Abberufung eines Geschaeftsfuehrers (Director) durch die Ltd. & Co. KG, GWR 2010, S. 193
- Haftungsbeschraenkung der Gesellschafter bei im Ausland gegruendeter Gesellschaft mit deutschem Sitz, GWR 2009, p. 417
- Umzug von Gesellschaften innerhalb Europas eine systematische Darstellung unter Auswertung der Entscheidungen "Cartesio" und "Trabrennbahn" GWR 2009, p. 161
- Faelle und Loesungen zum "kleinen Schein" im BGB in: Woehlert/Brauer/Deeg/Herwig (Editors), Richard Boorberg Verlag, 2008
- Die "Service Entscheidung" des EuGH "sudden death" fuer Societas Europaea und Richtlinie zur grenzueberschreitenden Verschmelzung und Wegbereiter fuer grenzueberschreitende Spaltungen?, WM 2007, p. 580
- Societas Europaea Der Siegeszug des deutschen Mitbestimmungsrechts in Europa?, NZG 04/2006, p. 121
- Umwandlung in: Buehner (editor), Managementlexikon, 2001
- Formwechsel in: Buehner (editor), Managementlexikon, 2001