Dr. Wilhelm Wucherer, B.Sc.
Wilhelm focuses on corporate law and dispute resolution.
Wilhelm advises companies, management and supervisory boards as well as company owners in the areas of corporate law, corporate governance as well as corporate transactions and restructuring/insolvency law issues. His practice also includes corporate succession and representation in proceedings in front of state courts and arbitration tribunals in national and international arbitration proceedings.
Mandates
- Advising large medium-sized and family-owned companies and listed corporations on commercial and corporate law issues as well as contract law matters
- Advice and legal representation in corporate law disputes, in particular in disputes between shareholders
- Advising and representing directors and officers in the defense against directors' and officers' liability claims
- Restructuring of a large listed stock corporation and its subsidiaries within the context of insolvency proceedings conducted under self-administration
- Corporate, commercial, restructuring and insolvency law advice to directors, supervisory board members, shareholders and creditors
- Advising company owners on questions of corporate succession, in particular on foundation law
- Advising and representing a large medium-sized company concerning a contractual dispute in international arbitration proceedings
Publications
- Uncertainties in the reporting obligation regarding the participation requirement pursuant to Section 76 (3a) German Stock Corporation Act (AktG), NZG 2024, 766 seq. (together with Stefan Zeyher)
- Management board liability in the restructuring of a stock corporation under self-administration (Mohr Siebeck, 2023)
- Activist shareholders in German stock corporations and SEs: New players, old instruments – Opportunities for a renaissance of the General Meeting?, AG 2023, 483 seq. (together with Achim Schäfer)
- The reimbursement of social security contributions during the receipt of short-time work compensation in preliminary insolvency proceedings, NZI 2021, 623 seq. (together with Matthias Tresselt)
- Dividends and share buybacks: Legal-economic background and management board's scope of action in times of crisis, ZGR 2021, 259 seq. (together with Peter Zickgraf)
- Report on the discussion of the lecture by Prof. Dr. Christoph Thole (Current developments in shareholder loan law – The decision of the German Federal Court of Justice of 14.2.2019 – IX ZR 149/16 and its effects on corporate financing),
Education & Engagement
- Member of German Association for Corporate Law (VGR)
- Member of DIS 40 – German Arbitration Institution
- Member of the Alumni Association of the Faculty of Law of the University of Munich
Education
- Studies of Law, University of Munich
- Studies of International Business Administration (Bachelor of Science, B.Sc.), University of Tübingen and University of Missouri, Columbia (USA)
- Legal Clerkship, Higher Regional Court of Munich
- Dr. iur., University of Munich
- Research Assistant, University of Munich (Chair of Civil Law and Corporate Law, Prof. Dr. Mathias Habersack)
- Business Mediator
- Languages: German, English