Hubert Salmen

Personal facts

• Born in Paderborn on 24 August 1970
• Trained and worked as a bank clerk at Sparkasse Paderborn from 1990 to 1993
• Studied law at the University of Bielefeld
• First bar exam in 1998
• Legal clerkship at the District Court of Hildesheim from 1998 to 2000
• Second bar exam in 2000
• Attorney at the law firm of Kümmerlein Simon & Partner in Essen from 2000 to 2003
• Company lawyer at Ideenkapital AG in Düsseldorf from 2003 to 2005
• Attorney at the law firm of BMS Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater in Düsseldorf from 2005 to 2010
• With the firm since 2010

Focus

Banking Law

• Liability of investment advisers, investment brokers and asset managers
• Law of Credit Agreements and Law of Credit and Security
• Law governing banking and financial services supervision

Commercial and Civil Law

• General Commercial Law
• Distribution Law, Law of Agency and Brokerage Law, Franchising
• General Terms and Conditions, Commercial Tenancy Law

Corporate Law

• Choice of legal form, incorporation, articles of incorporation
• D&O liability, liability of the board of management and of the supervisory board
• Assistance during, and preparation of shareholders‘ meetings and other panels
• Structural measures, capital measures, shareholder disputes
• Corporate transactions, legal due diligence, contract preparation, negotiation, and monitoring

Information Technology Law

• IT Contract Law, IT projects, software development, outsourcing, software license law