Dr. Marc Ludwig

Fields of practice:

• Restructuring and insolvency advice with a concentration in:
  avoiding insolvency, accompanying insolvency proceedings (general and self-administration), insolvency contestation, insolvency plans, managerial liability, criminal law in insolvency; with special expertise in: advice during a crisis/crisis coaching for managers.  
• Comercial, company and banking law with a concentration in credit securities
• Litigation in all facets of business law (court experience arising from hundreds of in courts proceedings all across the Federal Republic of Germany); with special expertise in contesting insolvencies

Professional Background:

• First Legal State Examination: 1997, Kiel
• Doctor of Laws, granted right to use academic title 2000
• Grand Legal State Examination: 2002, Hamburg
• Attorney since 2002 
• Attorney at Esche Schümann Commichau in Hamburg from 2002 until 2007
• Attorney/Partner in two multi-disciplinary law firms from 2008 until 2011 in Hamburg and Munich
• "Specialist in Insolvency Law" since 2010
• Partner at Ludwig Wöhren Schewtschenko in Hamburg and Munich since 2012

Professional Memberships:

• German Lawyer´s Association e.V. (DAV)
• Hamburg Lawyer´s Association e.V. (HAV)
• North German Insolvency Forum e.V. 
• Insolvency and Restructuring Working Group (DAV) 

Publications/Lectures/Seminars (Selected):

• "Lien Protection for Wage Income", 2001 
• "Abstract Promises in banking Practice and the Reform of the Statue of Limitations" (Dr. Klaus Schmid-Burgk/Dr. Marc Ludwig), Der Betrieb 2003, 1046
• "Liability of GmbH Managers in Crisis - Recognizing and Avoiding the Most Important Liability Traps", lecture together with a Hamburg prosecutor to businesspeople in 2011 (Hamburg)
• "Insolvency Law", in-house seminar for a social insurance fund in 2012 (Hamburg)
• "Liens on Property - Hypothecated Liens and Abstract Liens" and "Credit Securities in Insolvency", lecture to bank employees in 2013 (Hamburg/Hannover)
• "Credit Securities", "Advice to Entrepreneurs", "The New Insolvency Law as per ESUG", "Restructuring/Reorganization from the Bank's Perspective", lectures to bank employees in 2014 (Hamburg/Hannover/Kiel/Munich)
• "Contestation of Insolvency", in-house seminar at a social insurance fund in 2015 (Hamburg)
• "Contract Law, Terms and Condition Law", in-house seminar for a globally active manufacturer of printing technology in 2015 (Hessen) 
• "Changes in the Law of Credit Securities", lecture to bank employees in 2015 (Euskirchen)
• "(Preventative) Defensive Measures Against Contestation of Insolvency Claims", in house lecture to sales employees of a mid-size company active throughout Germany in 2016 (Hamburg)  
• "Contestation of Insolvency", workshop for a global market leader in 2017 (Baden-Württemberg)
• "Credit Securities", lecture to bank employees in 2017 (Kiel)
• "Contesting Insolvency from the Viewpoint of the Statutory Accident Insurance" (Pierre Stage and Dr. Marc Ludwig), NZS (Beck-Verlag) 2017, 15 
• "Legal Aspects of Claims Management", lecture to employees from the credit management department in 2017 (Hamburg)
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Languages

• German
• English