Dr. Felix Born
+49 (711) 60187-232
born@oppenlaender.de
JUVE Handbook 2021/2022 lists Dr. Felix Born among the frequently recommended lawyers in corporate law and M&A and quotes a competitor: “pragmatic and goal-oriented advisor”.
JUVE Handbook 2021/2022
Felix Born is an experienced corporate and transaction lawyer with international background, having worked – before he joined OPPENLÄNDER – already for major law firms in New York, London and Germany. The JUVE Handbook Commercial Law Firms, Legal 500 and the newspaper Handelsblatt have recommended him for many years in transactions and in corporate law. His clients value his practical and solution-oriented advice. Felix Born advises companies and investors in national and cross-border M&A projects as well as on company takeovers, restructuring and joint ventures. Felix Born is also an acknowledged corporate lawyer with special knowledge in advising management board and supervisory board members, on corporate governance issues, dealing with annual general meetings and acting in structural measures such as the exclusion of minority sharholders (squeeze-out).
Felix Born studied in Tübingen and Leiden (Netherlands). After his practical training in Dresden, Tübingen and New York, he achieved his doctorate at the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen under Prof. Dr. Heinz-Dieter Assmann with a thesis on a corporate law subject. From 2003 to 2010, Felix Born worked at Gleiss Lutz Rechtsanwälte and in 2008/2009 on secondment at the international major law firm Herbert Smith in London.
Languages: English
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Felix Born is an experienced commercial lawyer who advises on all questions of transaction and corporate law. In national and cross-border projects, he benefits from his international experience. He has special expertise in company acquisitions and sales and on the formation of joint ventures. He has particular industry knowledge in the areas of software, IT services, automotive and energy. In particular, he advised on the formation of joint ventures in the area of eMobility/charging infrastructure. Felix Born has experience extending over decades in corporate law and capital markets law, in particular advising management and supervisory board members, dealing with critical shareholders, advising on corporate governance issues and compliance questions, support in the course of annual general meetings and dealing with structural measures such as the exclusion of minority shareholders (squeeze-out).
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Vita
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Doctorate in corporate law
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Admitted as lawyer since
2003 -
Research assistant at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Heinz-Dieter Assmann, University of Tübingen
1999 — 2003