Oppenhoff
Lawyers
Axel Wenzel
- Phone+49 221 2091 455
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- Profilewww.oppenhoff.eu
Work Department
Corporate Law - Mergers & Acquisations - Succession, Wealth and Fundations
Career
Axel Wenzel is a partner at Oppenhoff. He began his career as a lawyer at Linklaters LLP and transferred to Oppenhoff upon its foundation in 2008.
Position
Axel Wenzel is a partner at Oppenhoff. He specialises in advice to entrepreneurs, enterprises and foundations on all issues of German and European corporate law, in particular in national and cross-border reorganisations, company purchases, joint ventures and in connection with SE structures. As a partner of the practice group Succession, Wealth, Foundations, he also advises wealthy individuals, family-run companies and families of owners as well as non-profit or private foundations on all questions concerning company and property succession. In this connection he focuses on cross-border issues of inheritance and family law, as well as the law on foundations and non-profit organisations.
Education
He studied law at the University of Cologne, obtained his doctorate in law (Dr. jur.) under Prof. Dr. Peter Krebs and acquired an LL.M. (International Commercial and Business Law) at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, England).