Dr. Axel Brandi

Personal Facts

• Born in 1936 in Dortmund
• Studies of law at the Universities of Freiburg, Munich and Münster
• First state bar exam 1962
• Legal clerkship at the Regional Courts Landshut, Münster and Dortmund
• Doctor of Laws (Dr. jur.) 1965
• Second state bar exam, bar admission 1967
• With the firm since 1968
• Fachanwalt für Steuerrecht (Specialist Lawyer for Tax Law) 1969
• Admission as a notary 1977
• Member of the board of the Chamber of Notaries for the District of the Higher Regional Court Hamm 1981 - 2006
• President of the Chamber of Notaries for the District of the Higher Regional Court Hamm 2001 - 2006
• Member of the Chamber of Lawyers for the Disctrict of the Higher Regional Court Hamm 1984 - 1991
• Member of the Committee for Trade and Commercial Law of the German Federal Chamber of Notaries
• Lecturer for trade and company Law at the University of Bielefeld

Areas of specialization

Law of succession and corporate succession 

• Estate settlements
• Succession planning, in particular corporate and managerial succession
• Estate administration and executorship

Corporate and tax law

• Corporate and company disputes 
• Partnership agreements, affiliation agreements
• Law on foundations and endowments (including associated tax law)
• Company conversions, structural changes of companies

Conversion law

• Split, consolidation, restructuring, contribution, merger

M&A

• Preparation of civil and tax law concepts
• Establishing contact with brokers, investment companies, banks and potential contractual partners
• Management buy-out (MBO) and management buy-in (MBI)
• Merger & acquisition
• Contract performance
• Contract negotiations and draft contracts

Publications

Monographs

• Bereicherung aus fremdem Vertrag, jur. Diss., Münster 1965

Articles

• Ermittlungspflicht des Aufsichtsrates über die wirtschaftliche Situation des Unternehmes "am Vorstand vorbei", ZIP 2000, 173

• üertragung von Gesellschaftsanteilen im Wege vorweggenommener Erbfolge und Vorbehaltsnießbrauch (zusammen mit C. Mühlmeier), GmbHR 1997, 734

• Unerlaubte Erstattung von Eigenkapitalersatz und Rückgewähr ersetzender Gebrauchsüberlassung bei GmbH und GmbH & Co. KG - Die actio pro socio als Hilfsmittel zur Herstellung des Status quo ante, ZIP 1995, 1391

Contributions to books

• Zusammenarbeit von Rechtsanwälten; in: Praxishandbuch für Anwaltskanzlei und Notariat, Deutscher Anwaltsverlag, 2005

Memberships

• Deutscher Anwaltsverein
• Juristische Gesellschaft Ostwestfalen-Lippe
• Rotary International