Dr. Sarah Gbekor

Dr. Sarah Gbekor advises and represents companies in contentious disputes, both before the ordinary courts as well as during arbitration proceedings. Her focus in this area is on proceedings involving complex technical issues and patent disputes. Her work also involves advising companies in all matters pertaining to corporate law, especially M&A transactions, corporate structuring and compliance issues.

Practice areas

Litigation and arbitration proceedings
Patent law and patent litigation
Corporate acquisitions and sales

Vita

2003 - 2009 Law studies in Heidelberg and Bilbao, Spain
2009 - 2011 Research assistant at the Institute for German and European Corporate and Economic Law, Heidelberg University
2011 - 2013 Research assistant at the law firm Wellensiek Rechtsanwälte, Heidelberg
2011 - 2014 Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Karslruhe with stages in Heidelberg and Stuttgart
2015 Admitted to the German bar
2015 - 2016 Lawyer at Allen & Overy LLP, Frankfurt am Main
2017 Secondment at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
2018 PhD (Dr. iur.) at Heidelberg University

Memberships

Member of DIS40 – Deutsche Initiative junger Schiedsrechtler (German Initiative of Young Arbitrators)
Member of ICC YAF – Young Arbitrators Forum of the International Chamber of Commerce
Member of the Deutscher Anwaltverein (German Bar Association)
Member of the Mannheimer Anwaltsverein (Mannheim Bar Association)

Publications

Renaissance des modifiziert zweistufigen Überschuldungsbegriffs, in: NZI 2012, 4 – 9
Internationale Finanzmarktkrise und Bankabschlüsse: Herausforderungen für die Finanzierung des Mittelstandes, in: Ebke/Möhlenkamp/Welling (Hrsg.), Internationale Finanzmarktkrise, Bankabschlüsse und Mittelstand, 2011, ISBN ISBN 978-3-8329-6733-8, S. 111 – 128 (zusammen mit Leonard Kirscht)

Selected mandates

Advising SRH Higher Education GmbH concerning the acquisition of EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht gGmbH from the Foundation for the Promotion of EBS University of Business and Law

Besides

Running is my passion, both with a team of colleagues and at the weekends with my husband. I reached one of my big goals on 30 April 2017 when I ran my first half marathon in Heidelberg.