Author Archives: c-wettich

Berner Fleck Wettich regularly assists listed and non-listed companies in the preparation and holding of shareholder meetings. On this basis, Carsten Wettich deals with the 2016 Annual General Meeting season and provides an outlook for the coming 2017 season. The article covers e.g. the German Corporate Governance Code, shareholder activism and personal liability of managing directors, recent court decisions as well as legislative measures at the national level and at EU level.

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“One of the most significant recent developments in the litigation environment has been the rise of third-party litigation funding. However, as I noted in a recent post, the impact of litigation funding has varied from jurisdiction to jurisdiction based on differences in the local law. In the following guest post, Burkhard Fassbach, a German attorney and D&O Advisor to the Frankfurt-based MRH TROWE Brokerage Group, and Carsten Wettich, a founding partner of Berner Fleck Wettich, a Dusseldorf-based corporate law firm, take a look at litigation funding environment in German and its impact on the D&O claims arena there.”

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The corporate law boutique Berner Fleck Wettich has been included again by „JUVE Verlag für juristische Information“ in the JUVE handbook German Commercial Law Firms (region West Germany / Duesseldorf) in its ranking for corporate and M&A practice.

Valuation:

This respected Düsseldorf firm specializes in advice to executive and supervisory boards, as well as to large Mittelstand and family-led companies. In the local market, the boutique’s USP is its small size.

Strenghts: Corporate, M&A

Recommended: Dr. Thilo Fleck (“quick, pragmatic, clever”, client; “very sound advice”, competitor), Dr. Olaf Berner, Dr. Carsten Wettich (“very good, pragmatic suggestions, solution-oriented”, client; “competent, vigorous and agile in corporate advice”, competitor).

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Burkhard Fassbach, MRH Trowe, and Carsten Wettich, Berner Fleck Wettich, describe the personal liability risk of municipial supervisory board members and explain that a separate D&O insurance is required.

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