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Dr Philipp Zehlicke
Biography
Philipp primarily advises on restructuring and insolvency law, especially in the context of national and cross-border transactions.
Among his clients are German and international banks, financial institutions, investors and corporates.
His focus is on financial restructuring advising corporates, lenders or investors in distressed situations and on the preparation, negotiation and implementation of complex and international restructuring concepts, for instance by way of an out-of-court "consensual" restructuring or in-court restructuring and insolvency proceedings. In addition, he advises his clients on issues relating to banking and Philipp is a regular member of the team of “Fachdienst Insolvenzrecht” (Beck-Online) where he comments regularly on recent decisions in German and European insolvency and restructuring lawit law.
Philipp studied law at the University of Mannheim. He wrote his doctoral thesis on cross-border group restructuring proceedings at the chair of Prof. Dr. Madaus at Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg.
Practice areas
- Restructuring insolvency and capital solutions
- Global loans and structured debt solutions
- Finance
Sectors
- Industrials and manufacturing
- Banks
- Infrastructure and transport
- Shipping
- Private capital
- Consumer and retail
Selected experience
- BayWa r.e. AG on the stabilization and restructuring of its financing agreements.
- Branicks Group AG successfully on its financial restructuring using an innovative German StaRUG procedure to address EUR225m promissory notes and parallel consensual negotiations on the extension of a bridge financing in the amount of EUR200m.
- GERRY WEBER International AG on its comprehensive corporate and financial restructuring, including self-administration, insolvency plan and StaRUG proceedings, as well as on ongoing financing and corporate law matters.
- A group of syndicated banks on a complex super-senior RCF/unitranche structure at the intersection of financing and restructuring in connection with the complex financial restructuring of an internationally active e-commerce company
- The RCF lenders in connection with the financial restructuring of an international manufacturer, particularly with regard to the rights of the RCF lenders within a complex financing structure and various scenarios under German and English law.
- A debt fund on the acquisition of a major German fast-food chain (“taking over the keys”) and the subsequent financial restructuring.
Education
- Dr. iur., Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, 2023
- Second German Law Degree, Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court, Germany, 2021
- First German Law Degree, University Mannheim, Germany, 2019
- Bachelor of Laws, LL.B., University of Mannheim, Germany, 2016
Admissions
- Rechtsanwalt, Germany, 2022