Dr. Max Hirschberger
Max works in the practice areas corporate law, M&A (in-cluding real estate transactions) and restructuring. He started his career with BMW where he was head of the corporate and international legal department. As a member of the Group Executive Board of Deutsche Telekom AG, he was then in charge of corporate strategy, new business development, legal, organization and internal audit.
Since 2003, Max has been active as an attorney in Frankfurt and Munich, together with his team, has extensive experience in his areas of legal expertise based on a great number of transactions with national and international clients. In total, Max handled transactions with a value of over 120 bn €. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Regensburg.
Recent work
- Advising the shareholders of Solea GmbH on the sale of the company to Mainova AG
- Advising a Turkish bidding consortium on the acquisition of a German automotive supplier
- Advising a listed German stock corporation on stock corporation law with regard to transactions with related parties
- Advising VIB Vermögens AG on the acquisition and conclusion of an agreement in principle on the business combination with DIC Asset AG
- Advising Neo Capital Ltd, London and Dubai, on the acquisition of an office property in Frankfurt by way of a share and forward deal
- Advising Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide on the sale of its investment in Hannover-Langenhagen Airport
- Advising a consortium of investors from the Gulf States on the mezzanine financing of a high-rise project in Frankfurt
- Advising Zug Invest GmbH on the acquisition, financing and sale of the multi-tenant project "Galileo" at TUM Munich
- Advising an SDAX company on the sale of a former research center and repayment of the financing
- Advising Monsanto on questions of German law during the takeover by Bayer AG
- Advising CFH Investment Banking on the acquisition of an office property in Munich
- Advising CFH Investment Banking on the acquisition of an office property with the German headquarters of the Swatch Group in Frankfurt
- Advising CFH Investment Banking on the acquisition of an office property in Neu-Isenburg
- Advising CFH Investment Banking on the acquisition of an office property in Frankfurt with the German headquarters of Arrow Electronics and the subsequent resale
- Advising CFH Investment Banking on the acquisition of an office property with the German headquarters of SAP by way of a share and forward deal
- Advising a North American investor on the development and sale of a residential project in Berlin with approx. 1,300 apartments
- Advising a family group of a German food manufacturer on the reorganization of the shareholder structure
- Advising the shareholders of a company in the hydraulics industry on the sale to a strategic investor
- Advising a Chinese private equity investor on the acquisition of a company in the cosmetics industry
- Advising a German company in the building materials industry on the acquisition of a company in Georgia
- Advising Novabase, SGPS S.A. on the restructuring of its German business activities and the sale of several business units
- Advising the Mexican family office Tresalia Capital S.A. de C.V. on the acquisition and subsequent sale of Artega Automobil GmbH & Co KG
- Advising Varta Microbattery on a reorganization
- Advising a joint venture in the automotive industry on restructuring
- Advising a private equity investor on the restructuring of the financing and the shareholder structure of a group of companies in the automotive supply industry
- Advising various real estate funds on a number of real estate transactions (acquisition and sale of residential and commercial real estate)
- Advising and structuring the acquisition of a residential real estate portfolio consisting of around 3,000 apartments by a consortium of Wohnbau GmbH, GBW AG, Volkswohnung GmbH
- Advising GBW AG on the acquisition of shares in four residential real estate companies with around 30,000 apartments in Bavaria
Publications
- Lending administrative agencies - term and legality (dissertation 1989)
- Application of release procedure to disputed capital increases and corporate contracts under the UMAG statue (review of court decision) (Betriebsberater 2006, 460; together with Dr. Christof Aha)
- The release procedure for resolutions adopted in general meetings of stockholders according to the draft bill corporate integrity and modernization of shareholder rights; The end for 'predatory stockholders'? (Der Betrieb 2004, 1137 seq.; together with Dr. Lothar Weiler)
Other
- Head of Corporate Legal department of BMW AG (1987-1997)
- Head of the Group Office, member of the Group Executive Board of Deutsche Telekom AG, in charge of strategy, legal, internal audits and organisation (1997-2002)
- Lecturer at the law school of the University of Regensburg concerning corporate acquisitions and international transactions
- Member of the German-American Lawyers' Association
- Member of the German-Argentinean Lawyers' Association
- Member of the International Bar Association (IBA)
Education
- Universität Regensburg (Dr. iur.)
- Université de Lausanne
- University of Michigan, Law School Ann Arbor, 1987 LL.M.
- Languages: German, English, French, Spanish
Frankfurt | Munich