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Dr. Michael Rose
Partner Corporate & Finance
Languages
German, English
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
client, JUVE Handbook, 2021/2022“Excellent in stock corporation law”
Michael Rose is a partner in our Munich office. His practice focuses on corporate, takeover and securities law advice to listed companies. In addition, he regularly advises clients on M&A transactions, corporate restructurings and joint ventures. He is also a permanent corporate law advisor of the board of several listed companies.
Clients appreciate his practical answers and his pragmatic approach (Legal 500 Germany 2019).
For years Michael has been recognized as leading lawyer for corporate law by Legal 500, JUVE, Best Lawyers, Acritas and Kanzleimonitor.
Michael is also the author of many publications in the area of corporate law. Inter alia he is author and co-publisher of the Beck-handbook Reasons for the annulment of shareholder resolutions under the German Stock Corporation Act.
Michael graduated from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München with a degree in law. He wrote his doctoral thesis on the liability of a proxy exercising votes in general meetings of German stock corporations. In 2007, Michael was seconded to our offices in Frankfurt am Main, Hong Kong and Beijing. During his professional training, Michael worked, inter alia, in our London office.
client, Legal 500 EMEA – Germany, 2021“I know Dr. Rose for about 10 years and don’t know anyone who knows stock corporation law as well as he does, a walking commentary. Nevertheless, his answers to difficult questions are very easy to read and to the point, even for non-legal clients.”
Representative experience
Advising ADVA Optical Networking on its transatlantic merger with ADTRAN by means of a public exchange offer with subsequent domination agreement.
Advising a DAX 40 company on the acquisition of a 10% stake in a German listed company.
Advising UniCredit on the sale of a majority stake in the German listed company AGROB Immobilien AG to Apollo.
Advising ADVA Optical Networking on the chage of its legal form into a Societas Europaea (SE).
Advising listed company AGROB Immobilien AG on the public takeover of its shares by RFR and subsequent domination agreement.
Advising listed company Graphit Kropfmühl AG on a squeeze-out merger.
Advising Vifor Pharma on a joint venture with Evotec.
Advising Media Saturn on the dispute of its shareholders.
Credentials
Education
- Dr. iur., LMU Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), 2002
- Second State Exam in Law, LMU Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), 2002
- First State Exam in Law, LMU Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), 1998
- University of Göttingen, 1996
Memberships
- Member of the German Corporate Law Association (VGR)