Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy

Daniel Friedemann Fritz is a partner in Dentons’ Frankfurt office. He is a member of the Restructuring practice and focuses on restructuring and insolvency law related matters, incl. European and international insolvency law. Daniel has extensive experience in insolvency administration and representing enterprises, management and creditors in restructuring, debtor-in-possession and regular insolvency proceedings, where he acts as a legal counsel or Office Holder (Chief Insolvency Officer). Daniel regularly advises in (distressed) M&A transactions. He represents his clients in and out of court in commercial and insolvency matters related to the resolutions or defense of claims by negotiation and litigation and arbitration. Daniel’s industrial focus includes the automotive, retail and healthcare sectors.

Daniel F. Fritz serves as Private Expert to the European Commission in relation to the introduction of a preventive restructuring framework and as speaker of the Working Group Europe of the German Bar Association’s (DAV) restructuring and insolvency wing. He regularly publishes and comments on German and European insolvency law.

Admitted to the bar, Germany, 2000

Legal clerkship, 1996-1999, Cottbus/Potsdam

University of Heidelberg, 1996, Legal studies

Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 1994, Legal studies