Restructuring,

Insolvency Law, Trustee

Attorney at law

Maximilian Bei der Kellen

  • 2023 - Senior Legal Counsel Automotive Industry (OEM)

  • 2020 - 2023: Brinkmann & Partner, Hannover, Germany

  • 2017 - 2020: GRUB BRUGGER, Stuttgart, Germany

  • 2009 - 2016: Law School in Jena, Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Halle S., Speyer

Awards

“Wirtschaftswoche” 2021 & 2022 (Germany)

“Leading Lawyer for Restructuring“

Global Restructuring Review (United Kingdom)

“40 Under 40 2022”

  • “Handkommentar Sanierungsrecht”, §§ 1, 101 f. StaRUG (Management's early crisis identification and crisis management duty), Nomos

  • Enforcement of D&O insurance coverage for provisional coverage of defense costs regardless of knowing breach of duty, EWiR 2022, 213

  • Duty to identify crises at an earlier stage - management in the conflict between shareholders' and creditors' interests, E-Book GmbH-Geschäftsführung 2021, S. 33, Euroforum

  • The withdrawal of a salaried insolvency administrator from the law firm, DZWiR 2020, 341

  • No bar transaction privilege when contesting the collateralization of a shareholder loan, Commentary to OLG Düsseldorf, Urt. v. 10.10.2019 – I-12 U 8/19, EWiR 2020, 117

Publications (in German)

Keynotes

  • TMA Next Gen - "Health Care in Crisis - Germany and the "Sick" Hospitals”

  • In-house training at private North German bank "Consulting in corporate crisis from different perspectives".

  • Working Group on Insolvency Law of the German Bar Association : 5 to 12 - Advice in the corporate crisis from different perspectives”