Dr. Alexander Urhahn
Alexander handles business disputes and advises companies on corporate, capital market, and contract law.
Alexander acts for listed companies, medium-sized businesses and boards. He represents our clients in national and international cases both in and out of court as well as before arbitral tribunals. His main area of practice is on corporate and contractual disputes. In addition, Alexander focuses on advising on corporate governance, capital market law, and structural measures, both on an ad hoc basis and continuously.
Recent work
- Representation of the defendant in appraisal proceedings under German stock corporation law
- Representation of a DAX company in various commercial disputes
- Representation of medium-sized companies and their owners in transaction-related and in corporate law disputes
- Ongoing advice to SDAX/MDAX companies on various capital market law and stock corporation law issues
- Advising a global family business on corporate governance and the law of the SE (societas europaea)
- Consultation on several reorganizations within a group of companies
Publications
- "Arbitral award for information disclosure does not violate public policy because contractual duty to inform outweighs privilege against self-incrimination” (zugleich Besprechung von OLG Stuttgart, Beschluss v. 11.6.2024 – 1 Sch 2/24), German Arbitration Digest (GAD) 2025, 1
- Von der Schweiz über Luxemburg nach Deutschland – Die Umwandlungsrichtlinie im Spiegel der Niederlassungsfreiheit – zugleich Bespr. von OLG Karlsruhe, Beschl. v. 24.4.2024 – 1 W 40/23 (Wx) = NZG 2024, 1189 (NZG 2024, 1171, with Dr. Florian Schumacher)
- Procedural Contracts and the Law of Investment Funds (PhD-Thesis, Baden-Baden 2021, in German)
- Großveranstaltungen in der Pandemie – Ein Beitrag zur Gestaltung „Allgemeiner Corona-Bedingungen“ (together with Dr. Andreas Betzelt), COVuR 2020, 633-638, in German
Other
- Arbitrator at the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot
- Member of DIS40 – German Initiative of Young Arbitration Practitioners
- Member of the Society of Friends and Sponsors of the Institute for Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws and International Business Law
- Member of Heidelberg University’s the Society of Friends
- Member of VGR – „Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht“
Education
- Heidelberg University (Dr. iur)
- State of Baden-Wuerttemberg (2nd State Examination)
- Heidelberg University (1st State Examination)
- Languages: German, English, French