Fieldfisher

Corporate I Capital Market Law

Dr Axel Hoppe is a Partner in Fieldfisher´s Dusseldorf office and advises clients on all topics of Corporate and Capital Market Law.

He provides ongoing advice to managers and board members, especially pertaining to the identification, prevention and defence of risks of liability (Corporate Compliance). Furthermore he advises issuers, investors and persons discharging managerial responsibility on all topics of capital market law (Capital Market Compliance).

In addition he focuses on strategic and conceptual advice in the context of the implementation of manager and employee bonus plans.

A core area of his work is the support and organization of shareholders' meetings of listed and unlisted companies (Corporate Housekeeping). In this context he advises strategically and conceptually not only on amendments of the statutes, capital increases, issuance of participating certificates and convertible bonds, share buyback programmes but also on group law topics and corporate restructuring, in particular on mergers and changes of corporate form, e.g. in a Societas Europaea (SE).

Moreover he advises clients in Corporate law suits, particularly in recission and nullification proceedings pertaining shareholders resolutions, or in proceedings pertaining shareholder compensation claims as well as in liability and damage suits.

He is working as a Partner with the Fieldfisher´s Dusseldorf and Frankfurt am Main offices. Before that he worked with a law firm specialised on commercial law in Cologne.

He advises his clients in German and English.

He is a member of arbitration tribunal of the German field hockey Association (DHB).