Christine advises partnerships and corporations on all aspects of corporate law. She advises clients inter alia on the formation and restructuring of companies, on the purchase and sale of companies and shareholdings as well as on disputes between shareholders.
Another key practice area is advising on compliance and corporate governance issues. Her clients include larger companies and groups as well as medium-sized companies. Christine advises inter alia on implementing compliance systems, carrying out compliance audits and on pursuing/averting liability claims.
Christine is co-head of the Compliance competence team. She speaks German and English.
What others say
Cited as ‘often recommended’ - ‘excellent for compliance investigations’, client
JUVE Handbook 2024/25
Recommended lawyer for compliance
Legal 500 Germany 2025
Recent Work
- Advising a chemical park operator on the auditing and reorganisation of the group-wide compliance management system
- Advising an international energy and infrastructure group (>140 companies) on a compliance audit for a German subsidiary as well as legal enforcement of civil law claims against employees and managing directors
- Advising an aviation company on the acquisition of another company
- Advising UK-based HENI Group on strategic transactions in Germany
- Advising a company in the chemical trading sector on the participation of a financial investor in the context of an atypical silent partnership
- Advising a company on the spin-off of 22 properties and restructuring of the operating company
- Providing compliance advice to various subsidiaries of a DAX company
- Various shareholder disputes in limited liability companies and partnerships, including managing director liability
Curriculum vitae
- Studied law at the Georg August University Göttingen, 2002 to 2007
- Research assistant at the University of Göttingen, 2007 to 2008
- LLM at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 2008/2009
- Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court Düsseldorf, 2010 to 2012
- Lawyer at Kapellmann since 2012
- PhD on medical law at the University of Göttingen, 2014
- Specialist lawyer for commercial and corporate law, 2016
- Lecturer at the IST University of Applied Sciences (IST Hochschule für Management), 2016 to 2017
