Hannes Lichtenfeld
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Hannes Lichtenfeld

Associate

Email

hannes.lichtenfeld@aoshearman.com

Phone

+49 40 82221 2190

Offices

Hamburg

V-CARD

Hannes advises on matters relating to corporate, restructuring and insolvency law. His clients include German and international companies, investors, financial institutions and insolvency practitioners.

He specialises in providing legal support for restructuring and insolvency proceedings, as well as corporate reorganisations and transactions in exceptional circumstances. In addition, he advises on the enforcement and defence of claims under insolvency law. 

Hannes holds a PhD in German corporate restructuring law. Even before joining the firm as an associate, he worked there as a research assistant, focusing primarily on issues relating to corporate restructuring prior to insolvency.

Expertise

Experience

Representative matters

  • Techem on the acquisition of a majority stake in inexogy smart metering, one of Germany's largest competitive metering point operators.
  • Norges Bank on the acquisition of a 49% stake from RWE in the yet-to-be-built offshore wind projects “Nordsee Cluster” in Germany and “Thor” in Denmark with a combined capacity of 2.7 GW and a total deal value of EUR8bn. 
  • Schumacher Packaging GmbH in connection with its carve out of the Polish subsidiary of Schumacher Packaging Group to the Spanish Saica Group and the subsequent sale of Schumacher Packaging's business units in Germany, Great Britain and the Netherlands to the Mondi Group. 

Published Work

  • Kamin, Access of Natural Persons to the Restructuring Framework, ZVI 2022, 91
  • Kamin, Self-employed Individuals and the COVInsAG: Protection from claw-back risks without preconditions? ZVI 2021, 333

Qualifications

Admissions

Admitted as German Rechtsanwalt, 2024

Academic

Second German Law Degree, Higher Regional Court of Hamburg, Germany, 2023 
Magister Juris (Distinction), University of Oxford, UK, 2020 
First German Law Degree, University of Göttingen, Germany, 2018
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.