BRANDI lawyers.

Dr. Carsten Hoppmann
About me
- Born in 1971
- Legal studies at University of Osnabrück
- Consultant for German regional stock exchanges, 1998
- Legal clerkship ("Refrendariat") in the Oldenburg Higher District Court District
- Elective rotation with Dorado Law Group, New York
- Awarded doctoral degree (Dr. jur.) in 2000
- Second (Bar) Exam ("2. Staatsexamen") in 2001
- Lawyer with Schindhelm Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Osnabrück and Hanover, 2001 - 2011
- Certified Specialized Attorney in Commercial and Corporate Law
- Certified Specialized Attorney in Intellectual Property Law
- Joined the firm in 2011
- Appointment as notary in 2013
Competence
IP rights & competition law
Competition law
- Violations against competition regulations (warning, pre-liminary injunction, action)
- Assessment of advertising material, web pages, online shops, advertising campaigns, contests, General Terms and Conditions etc. with regard to compliance with competition law
- Price information
- Labeling obligations
- Law on the advertising of medicinal products
- Protection against imitation
- Competition in the public sector
Trade mark and designation law
- Application of German trade marks, community trade marks and IR trade marks
- Trade mark research, management and monitoring
- Consulting on trade mark strategies
- Contract design (trade mark license and transfer agreements, delimitation agreements)
- Conduction of opposition and cancellation proceedings before authorities, the German Federal Patent Office and the General Court
- Border seizure processes
- Trade mark and designation infringements (warning, preliminary injunction, action)
- Trademark infringements abroad
- Rights to names, company signs, and titles of works
Know-how protection
- Non-disclosure agreements (NDA)
- Know-how protection agreements
Notaries
- Property law
- Corporate law
- Succession law
- Precautionary legal advise
- Drafting and certification of agreements and unilateral declarations of intent
Corporate law/M&A
Incorporation
- Selection of the legal form (corporate law and tax law)
- Drafting of the partnership agreement, further agreements between the partners
- German stock corporation and private company law (e.g. OHG, KG, GmbH & Co. KG, GmbH, AG, KGaA, eG)
- Societas Europaea (SE)
- Foreign legal forms (e.g. Ltd, Plc, Inc., LLC)
- Trust
- Voting trust, pool and consortium agreements
Life and growth of the company
- Conduction of general meetings and partners' meetings
- Growth financing, corporate finance (borrowed and own capital, cash pool, bank loans, leasing, leasing, factoring, forfaiting, asset-backed securities, mezzanine financing, bonds, bonded loans)
- Participation rights, silent partnerships (typical, atypical)
- Employee participation schemes
- Private equity companies
- Subsidiaries (foundation and acquisition, foreign subsidiaries)
- Partnership agreements, affiliation agreements (in particular control and profit and loss transfer agreements)
- Co-determination
- Corporate compliance, corporate governance
- Cooperation agreements, joint ventures, join ventures in Germany and abroad
- Takeover of other companies (M&A)
Restructuring
- Transformation law, transformation tax law
- Consolidation, split, restructuring, contribution, merger
- International mergers and control agreements
- National and international holding structures
- Squeeze-out
- Support during company reorganization
Disputes within the company
- Disputes between the partners, with members of bodies and with the company
- Representation of interests out of court (in particular in partners' meetings, general meetings, supervisory board, advisory board)
- Representation of interests in court
Company succession
- Structuring of family assets
- Entrepreneur's last wills
- Gifts, usufruct
- Inheritance tax law
- Foundation (charitable foundation, family foundation)
- International models
- Supervisory board, advisory board
- Execution of wills, administration of estates
- Sale of companies
- Estate settlements
Purchase and sale of companies (M&A)
- Preparation of the purchase of a company (tax optimization, bundling of the assets to be sold, separation of assets, sales brochure)
- Determination of the type of sales process (e.g. auction, sale to competitors)
- Selection of the business broker or the investment bank
- Transaction structure (in particular asset or share deal, tax aspects)
- Transaction management
- Agreements prior to due diligence (e.g. non-disclosure agreement, letter of intent)
- Preparation and execution of and support during due diligence (including installation of a(n) (electronic) data room)
- Negotiations
- Drafting of the company purchase agreement
- Distressed M&A, acquisition from the insolvency administrator
- Consulting in the case of public take-over bids
- Purchase of a foreign company
- Purchase by a foreign purchaser
Insolvency law and reorganization
- Preparation and supervision of company reorganization concepts including the creation of rescue companies
- Support of companies and entrepreneurs in case of insolvency both on the side of the creditor and on the side of the debtor
- Representation in disputes regarding insolvency law
- Rights of parties furnishing security and of parties to which a security is furnished in case of insolvency
- Insolvency rescission
- Liability of the insolvency administrator
Asset planning, succession, succession law
Succession law
- Design of last wills
- Revocation of a last will
- Contracts of inheritance (notarial)
- Withdrawal from a contract of inheritance
- Directions pertaining to legacies and conditions
- Prior and subsequent succession, also excepted prior succession
- Order of the execution of a will
- Will to the benefit of persons with disabilities, in need or overly indebted
- Provisions for the offsetting and balancing of gifts
- Renunciation of inheritance
- Renunciation to the compulsory portion
- Inheritance tax
- Agricultural succession law (farm regulations)
- Determination of the legal succession including spousal inheritance rights
- Acceptance and renunciation of the inheritance
- Contesting of the acceptance of an inheritance
- Securing the estate through curatorship of the estate
- Liabilities of the heirs, obligations of the estate
- Administration of estates
- Insolvency of estates
- Community of heirs
- Contesting a will
- Interpretation of a will
- Accepting or rejecting the office of the executor
- Remuneration of the executor
- Dismission of the executor from office
- Compulsory portion regulations
- Obligation of the heir to furnish information
- Offsetting of gifts against the compulsory portion
- Request for the issuance of a certificate of inheritance
- Revocation of a certificate of inheritance
- Purchase of an inheritance, transfer of shares of an inheritance
Asset succession and company succession
- Succession planning
- Legal and tax succession model
- Prevention of claims for compulsory portions
- Anticipated succession
- Transfer of company assets
- Foundation of family-owned businesses/family pools
- Establishment of foundations
- Sale of companies
- Enduring power of attorney
- Entrepreneur's last wills, testamentary and prenuptial of the entrepreneur
- Execution of wills (e.g. in case of underage heirs)
- Transfer agreements
- Agreements on the renunciation of the compulsory portion
- Lump sum provisions
Asset planning
- Legal consulting with regard to asset management
- Legal structuring of (family-owned) companies
- Prenuptial agreements
- Legal models for invested capital, in particular for investment funds
Publications
Monographs
- Vorstandskontrolle im Versicherungsverein auf Gegenseitigkeit, Frankfurt am Main, 2000
Contributions to books
- Patentrecht, in: Hoeren, Moderecht (Handbuch), München, 2019
- Markenrecht, in: Hoeren, Moderecht (Handbuch), München, 2019
- Der Versicherungsverein auf Gegenseitigkeit (gemeinsam mit Dr. Michael Lange),
in: Blümler, Busch, Hoppmann u.a., Handbuch Gesellschaftsrecht für das Firmenkundengeschäft, Heidelberg 2006 - Hauptversammlungen und Internet (gemeinsam mit Dr. Michael Lange),
in: Gimmy/Kröger, Handbuch zum Internetrecht, 2. Auflage, 2002 - Rechtsfragen des Internet-Vertriebs von Versicherungsdienstleistungen (gemeinsam mit Dr. Flemming Moos),
in: Gimmy/Kröger, Handbuch zum Internetrecht, 2. Auflage, 2002
Essays
- Bankmarketing versus Datenschutz?, Bankpraktiker 2009, S. 131 (gemeinsam mit Dr. Mathias Scholz)
- Irreführende Gestaltung von Kontoauszügen, Bankpraktiker 2007, S. 118 f.
- Wettbewerbsrecht: Aktuelle Fallstricke für Kreditinstitute, Bankpraktiker 2006
- Verwarnung für die FIFA - Der BGH zeigt der Marke Fußball WM 2006 die rote Karte!, Bankpraktiker 2006
- Werbung rund um die Fußball-WM 2006 - Schießen Sie kein Eigentor! in: Bankpraktiker 2006
- Europarechtliche Entwicklungen im Börsenrecht, in: Europäisches Wirtschafts- und Steuerrecht 1999
Memberships
- Deutscher Anwaltverein e.V.
- Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR)
- Institut für Insolvenzrecht e.V.
- Grur - Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht e.V.