Dr. Nils Wigginghaus

Personal Facts

• Born in 1974 in Bielefeld
• Studies of law at the University of Konstanz
• First state bar exam 2002
• Legal clerkship in the district of the Higher Regional Court Düsseldorf
• Second state bar exam 2004
• Research assistant under Prof. Dr. Astrid Stadler (Chair for Civil Law, Civil Procedure, Private International Law and Comparative Law) at the University of Konstanz
• Bar admission 2005
• With the firm since 2005
• Doctor of Laws (Dr. jur.) 2007

Areas of specialization 

Corporate and tax law

• Compliance
• Corporate and company disputes 
• D&O liability
• Partnership agreements, affiliation agreements

Protection of industrial property rights and competition law

• License law, license agreements

Insolvency law and reorganization

• Supporting companies and entrepreneurs in insolvency, as creditors or as debtors
• Creditors‘ rights in case of insolvency
• Revocatory action

International law

• Chinese Law
• Formation and supporting foreign subsidiaries
• International prosecution of rights
• International M&A
• License agreement, technology transfer

M&A

• Due diligence (civil and tax law)
• Contract performance
• Contract negotiations and draft contracts

Publications

Monographs

• Synergieeffekte zwischen Straf- und Zivilprozess
  Eine Untersuchung zur prozessökonomischen Verbindung von Straf- und Zivilprozess unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Problems doppelter Beweiserhebungen. Konstanz, 2007

Contributions to books

• Das Mandat beim Unternehmenskauf und -verkauf (außer §§ 31, 36), zusammen mit
  Dr. Franz Tepper in: Arens/Tepper, Das gesellschaftsrechtliche Mandat, Bonn 2007

Memberships

• Deutscher Anwaltverein
• Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristenvereinigung
• Deutsch-Chinesische Juristenvereinigung
• Deutsch-Britische Juristenvereinigung