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Often recommended in corporate law and M&A

JUVE manual 2023/2024

trustworthy and very committed advice; professional, fast, high qualitative level

client, JUVE manual 2022/2023

Often recommended in corporate law and M&A ("very committed professionally and personally, also in the implementation of projects")

Client, JUVE manual 2022/2023

Often recommended in Corporate law

JUVE manual 2021/2022, 2020/2021 and 2019/2020

May one not underestimate

competitor, JUVE manual 2019/2020

Recommended for Corporate

JUVE manual 2018/2019

Frequently recommended for cases involving company law

JUVE manual 2016/2017 and JUVE manual 2017/2018

Also noteworthy is the dynamic group of female junior partners, which also includes Mrs. Eschenfelder who specialized in corporate law with a focus on stock corporations. In addition to voidance and squeeze-out procedures, she also handles complex financing rounds in the biotech/ biopharmaceutical sector

JUVE manual 2017/2018

Dr. Christina Eschenfelder

Partner, Sustainability Reporting Advisor (EBS)

Dr. Christina Eschenfelder advises listed and unlisted companies and their supervisory board and managing board members primarily on stock corporation and corporate law as well as matters pertaining to corporate governance. Christina Eschenfelder provides guidance to investors and corporations during financing processes and advises nationally as well as internationally operating companies on structuring and restructuring measures as well as during Mergers & Acquisitions. Among other things, she has specialised in impact investing. Christina Eschenfelder is a lecturer in Corporate Governance in the Sustainable Finance post-graduate program at the EBS Executive School of the EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht gGmbH.

Practice areas
  • Corporate law, especially stock corporation and capital markets law as well as the structuring and restructuring of medium-sized and listed companies
  • Guidance for supervisory board and managing board members in matters pertaining to stock corporation and corporate law as well as corporate governance
  • Mergers & Acquisitions as well as management of private equity funding and initial public offerings
  • Impact Investing
Vita
  • 1997 Internship at the League of Arab States in London
  • 2000 Legal work at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in Geneva
  • 2001/2002 External staff member of the World Economic Forum (WEF), working at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos and the European Economic Summit in Salzburg
  • 1997 - 2003 Law studies in Würzburg, Geneva and Heidelberg
  • 2005 Admitted to the German bar
  • 2012 Partner of RITTERSHAUS law firm
  • 2016 PhD (Dr. iur.) at Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg
  • 2024 Acquisition of the additional qualification "Sustainability Reporting Advisor (EBS)"
Other activities and memberships
  • Lecturer for Corporate Governance in the compact study programme Sustainable Finance at the EBS Executive School of EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht gGmbH
  • Member of the Benefit Company Bar Association
  • Member of the Wirtschaftsjunioren Heidelberg (Junior Chamber Heidelberg)
  • Member of Working Moms Rhine-Neckar
  • Member of BPW (Business and Professional Women), Mannheim-Ludwigshafen
  • Member of the Gesellschaftsrechtliche Vereinigung - Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht (VGR) e. V., Frankfurt am Main (Corporate Law Association – Academic Association for Business and Corporate Law)
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My motto

“He who wants something, finds a way. He who doesn’t, finds a reason.” (Götz W. Werner)

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Often recommended in corporate law and M&A

JUVE manual 2023/2024

trustworthy and very committed advice; professional, fast, high qualitative level

client, JUVE manual 2022/2023

Often recommended in corporate law and M&A ("very committed professionally and personally, also in the implementation of projects")

Client, JUVE manual 2022/2023

Often recommended in Corporate law

JUVE manual 2021/2022, 2020/2021 and 2019/2020

May one not underestimate

competitor, JUVE manual 2019/2020

Recommended for Corporate

JUVE manual 2018/2019

Frequently recommended for cases involving company law

JUVE manual 2016/2017 and JUVE manual 2017/2018

Also noteworthy is the dynamic group of female junior partners, which also includes Mrs. Eschenfelder who specialized in corporate law with a focus on stock corporations. In addition to voidance and squeeze-out procedures, she also handles complex financing rounds in the biotech/ biopharmaceutical sector