Dr. Claudia Pleßke

Partner

Dr. Claudia Pleßke advises national and international companies on corporate and transactional law. In this connection, she advises companies mainly from the automotive, aerospace, pharmaceutical and food industries, on national and cross-border M&A transactions and in recent years increasingly on Chinese outbound transactions. Another focal point of her work is advice on formulating contracts for companies in all fields of commercial law. Claudia Pleßke is in charge of the China Desk at RITTERSHAUS.

Practice areas

Company acquisitions and disposals
Commercial law
Stock corporation law
Restructuring and change of corporate form

Vita

1990 - 1995 Law studies in Heidelberg
1998 Admitted to the German bar
2007 PhD (Dr. iur.) at Heidelberg University (Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff)
1998 - 2003 Lawyer at Melchers in Heidelberg
2003 - 2010 Lawyer at and Partner of Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
2010 Joined RITTERSHAUS law firm as Partner

Other activities and memberships

Member of the Gesellschaftsrechtliche Vereinigung - Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht (VGR) e. V., Frankfurt/Main (Corporate Law Association – Academic Association for Business and Corporate Law)
Member of the tax committee of the IHK Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar Chamber of Industry and Commerce)
Founding member of the Sino-German Business Federation e.V.

Publications

„Modernes Sanierungsmanagement“, Crone/Werner (Koautorin), 4. Auflage 2014, ISBN 978-3-8006-4741-5
„Die Satzungsstrenge im Aktienrecht - Mehr Gestaltungsfreiheit für die kapitalmarktferne Aktiengesellschaft“, 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-56380-9

Selected mandates

Advising the majority shareholder of KW-Kranwerke AG on the sale to Nimbus
Advising REMAG Group on the sale of seven business operations in total, removing them from insolvency proceedings in self-administration
Advising AMK Holding GmbH & Co. KG on the acquisition of the Irish company Drive Rite Holdings Limited
Advising Zhongding Group on the acquisition of TriStone Group, AMK Group, a majority shareholding in KACO GmbH + Co. KG, the WEGU Group, Austria Druckgruss GmbH & Co KG and a subsidiary of Federal Mogul
Advising the Chinese Zhongding Group in purchasing equity stake in Swiss market leader of electric vehicle charging infrastructure
Providing ongoing advice to the Chinese Zhongding Group (registered on the stock exchange in China) on post-merger integration as well as operational issues
Advising CEMA AG on the acquisition of sysLogixx GmbH as well as the operations of GNS Gesellschaft für Netzwerk- und Systemintegration GmbH
Advising the English company Customs Connect Limited on its entry into the German market
Advising Hügli Nahrungsmittel GmbH on various transactions in Germany and abroad as well as concerning questions involving company law
Advising PFW Aerospace GmbH the majority of whose shares are held by Airbus on various transactions as well as in the field of company law and Commercial
Advising a Luxemburg Family Office on the acquisition of EMS Elektro Metall Schwanenmühle GmbH
Advising Raschig GmbH on various transaction
Advising Sino German Asset Management S.à.r.l. on the acquisition of the former office building of MLP AG in Heidelberg from MLP AG
Advising Sino German Asset Management S.à.r.l. concerning various property transactions (in particular former military property in Heidelberg – the so-called “Patton Barracks”)
Advising SchmitterGroup GmbH on the sale of SteloTec GmbH, a subsidiary, as part of a management buyout
Advising the Indian company Lohia Corp. Ltd. concerning its acquisition of Einbecker Kennzeichnungssysteme GmbH (EKS) and the evaluation of other acquisition options
Advising the sellers on the sale of the bakery chain Theurer
Advising the Chinese CSG Group concerning its activities in Germany
Advising the US-based Electro-Optics Technology, Inc. on its takeover of the Forschungsinstitut für mineralogische und metallische Werkstoffe Edelmetalle/Edelsteine GmbH (FEE)
Advising Merz Pharma GmbH & Co. KG on the sale of the SENATOR Group to the private equity company Perusa

My motto

“Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle. Maybe there is none.” (Franz Kafka)