Christian Graf Brockdorff LL.M.

Lawyer
Partner
Specialist lawyer for insolvency and restructuring law

Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 36
14469 Potsdam
Tel.: +49 331 29800-0
Fax: +49 331 29800-99
E-Mail: potsdam@bbl-law.com

Other locations

Languages

English
German

References

Christian Graf Brockdorff LL.M. has been a lawyer since 1991. He has worked as an insolvency administrator and expert since 1996. He has supported companies and entrepreneurs of all sizes in judicial and extrajudicial restructuring for more than 20 years. His focus is specifically on insolvency and self-administration proceedings with a foreign element and increasingly also in corporate structures that he is able to successfully restructure with debt settlement and insolvency plans. In addition, he often acts as a dual-purpose trustee and advises owners and/or shareholders in restructuring processes.

CV (in short)

2002 – Present BBL Brockdorff and predecessor companies
1998 – 2001 Lawyer/insolvency administrator and partner at Heuking Kuehn Lueer Wojtek
1991 – 1997 Attorney at Luther & Partner and predecessor company in Hamburg and Berlin
1989 – 1991 Legal clerkship at the Schleswig-Holstein Higher Regional Court/2. Legal state exam
1988 Master's degree (LL.M.), Philadelphia/USA
1983 – 1987 Law studies in Hamburg and Munich

Areas of expertise

Regular insolvency administration (IN/IK procedure)
Reorganisation and restructuring
Trust activity (so-called double-purpose trust)
Preparation and support for self-administration with or without a protective shield
Custodian or acting as CRO
General representation of companies, entrepreneurs, shareholders, creditors in the context of a crisis
Corporate law, specifically M&A in the context of insolvency
Corporate finance, also distressed
Insolvency plans (possibly with change to the shareholder structure)
Company succession

Memberships

Chairman of the preliminary examination committee for the acquisition of the title "Specialist Lawyer for Insolvency and Restructuring Law" for the Bar Association of the state of Brandenburg
Member of the preliminary examination committee for the acquisition of the title "Specialist Lawyer for Agricultural Law" for the Bar Association of the state of Brandenburg
Member of the board of Wustrau working group for insolvency law e.V., Potsdam
Advisory board member at German Journal for Business and Insolvency Law (DZWiR)
Working group on insolvency law and restructuring at German Lawyers Association
VID Association of Insolvency Administrators in Germany
Forum insolvency law
Berlin-Brandenburg working group for insolvency law e.V.
Industrial Club Potsdam "Christian Peter Wilhelm Beuth" e.V.

Publications
Lectures and publications on various topics of German insolvency law, most recently:

Startups in der Insolvenz: Sind Daten wertvoll oder eine Altlast? In: Gründerszene, 27. August 2018
„Krise und Insolvenz von Start-up-Unternehmen unter Einbeziehung des insolvenzrechtlichen Schicksals der von ihnen geschlossenen Lizenzverträge“, erschienen in: Insolvenzrecht 2017/2018, Mitherausgeber und Co-Autor, Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, 5. Auflage 2017
„Die Zukunft des Insolvenzverwalterberufs im Spannungsfeld von Marktveränderung und Gläubigerinteressen“, erschienen in: Insolvenzrecht 2015/2016, Mitherausgeber und Co-Autor, Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, 4. Auflage 2015
„Change of Control“ im Planinsolvenzverfahren – verbesserte Chancen für Gesellschafter und Investoren durch das ESUG, in: Betriebs-Berater 2014, Heft 32
„Das Nachlassinsolvenzverfahren – Besonderheiten und Risiken für Nachlassgläubiger und Erben“, erschienen in: Insolvenzrecht 2013/2014, Mitherausgeber und Co-Autor, Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, 3. Auflage 2013
Versteckte Chancen für Investoren – ESUG macht Unternehmen in der Insolvenz für Investoren interessant, in: Betriebs-Berater 2013, Heft 50, Seite 1
„Das Krankenhaus in der Krise – Krisenursachen und Restrukturierungsvarianten“, erschienen in: „Insolvenzrecht: Aktuelle Schwerpunkte aus Gläubigersicht“, Mitherausgeber und Co-Autor, Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, 2008
“Insolvenz als Chance – Wie der Turn Around aus dem Insolvenzverfahren gelingt”, erschienen in: Dezemberausgabe 2006 der Zeitschrift „Der Mittelstand“
„Der Gläubiger im Insolvenzverfahren“, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1999, Mitherausgeber und Co-Autor