Patrick Halfpap, MLE, LL.M. (Finance)

Corporate

Dr Patrick Halfpap, MLE, LL.M.  (Finance) is a Partner in Fieldfisher´s Dusseldorf office and advises on Corporate, Commercial and Financial Law.

He regularly advises German and multinational companies, family offices and financial intermediaries.

His focus is particularly on financial and M&A transactions as well as general corporate structural advice.

He regularly supports his clients in connection with (financial) regulatory issues and in the context of reorganisations and restructurings. He also has extensive experience in debt and mezzanine financing, in particular asset and project financing as well as acquisition financing.

Finally, he regularly provides non-litigation and litigation advice in connection with shareholder disputes and directors' and officers' liability cases as well as post-transaction disputes.

Among other things, he advised Sonova on the acquisition of Sennheiser's headphone division, the merger of the charter shipping companies Leonhardt & Blumberg and Buss-Shipping, and the sale of Intercard to Verifone.

He is recommended by various professional magazines and platforms, including being listed as a "frequently recommended" lawyer for Corporate Law by JUVE.

As a scholarship holder of the German Study Foundation he studied in Göttingen, besides the First State Examination he also obtained the degree of Magister Legum Europae (MLE.). Within the framework of the Erasmus exchange programme, he also studied in France at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas).

After his First State Examination, he completed a Master's programme in Finance in Frankfurt and obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.). During this time, he also worked for Deutsche Börse and an international law firm.

Subsequently, he completed a comparative law doctoral thesis on capital market supervision in Europe and the USA as a fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the University of Bonn, combined with research stays at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies and the London School of Economics in London.

He completed his legal clerkship before the Second State Examination in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Dusseldorf with stations in international commercial law firms and the German Embassy in Washington.