SCHIRP & PARTNER SOLICITORS - Key Persons
Adel Ghazi has been with Schirp & Part ner since 2010. From 2005 to 2014 he stud ied law at the Freie Uni versität zu Ber lin. Since April 2020 he has been study ing the "Law (Ius)" course at the Ber lin School of Eco nom ics and Law, which he is ex pec ted to com plete in winter 2021.
As part of his work as a re search as sist ant, he sup ports the as ser tion of con sumer rights in con nec tion with life in sur ance. He also looks after English-speaking cli ents in mat ters re lat ing to Wir e card / EY.
Languages
Ger man
Job Titles:
- Attorney, Specialized Lawyer for Banking and Capital Market Law / Banking
Since 2010, Al ex an der Temiz has been work ing as a law yer in our law firm in the area of cap ital mar ket law, and in 2014 he ac quired the ad di tional qual i fic a tion as a spe cial ist law yer for bank ing and cap ital mar ket law. Legal is sues in bank ing law are his main fo cus. He ad vises and rep res ents both private and in sti tu tional in vestors with re gard to all legal is sues re lated to swaps and the re voc a tion of loans. In ad di tion, he ad vises not only in vestors of closed-end pat ent funds but also share hold ers in col lect ive cases. In in sur ance law, he ad vises in vestors on the re voc a tion of their life in sur ance policies.
Al ex an der Temiz stud ied law at the Freie Uni versität Ber lin and com pleted his legal clerk ship at the Kam mer gericht in Ber lin. Between 2007 and 2009 he has worked as a freel ance law yer with a fo cus on cap ital in vest ment and in sur ance law.
Languages
Ger man
Job Titles:
- Attorney, Specialized Lawyer for Banking and Capital Market Law
Since 2011, Al ex an dra Binia has been work ing at Schirp & Part ner as an at tor ney with main fo cus on cap ital mar ket law and com pany law. In ad di tion to ad vising harmed in vestors of closed-end prop erty funds and en for cing their claims for dam ages on the basis of the pro spectus li ab il ity, Al ex an dra Binia is also re spons ible for the en force ment of tor tious dam ages claims. A fur ther fo cus of her work is the en force ment of cap ital in vestor rights at com pany law level.
Al ex an dra Binia com pleted her stud ies at European Uni ver sity Vi ad rina in Frank furt (Oder), fol lowed by legal clerk ship in Pots dam and in Mon tevideo, Uruguay.
Languages
Ger man
Anne Wen zelewski has been with Schirp & Part ner since 2008 and has be come a part ner of the firm in 2015. As a spe cial ist at tor ney for tax law, she de votes her self mainly to fiscal is sues re lated to fund par ti cip a tion. In ad di tion to this, one of her fur ther fo cuses lies in cap ital mar ket and com pany law. Here, at tor ney Wen zelewski rep res ents harmed in vestors in life in sur ance and cases of closed end funds, such as real es tate and ship ping funds. Anne Wen zelewski can look back on both great ju di cial and ex traju di cial successes:
As the com pet ent law yer in the law suits of the KGAL/ALCAS me dia funds vs those in charge of the pro spectus, she was able to con clude out-of-court set tle ments for all of the ap prox im ately 500 in vestors rep res en ted by her, and could bring the ac tions in the in terest of her cli ents to a very suc cess ful out come. In the same year, a rul ing of the Ger man Fed eral Court of Justice (Bundes gericht shof, file No. 2 ZR 136/11) was is sued on the basis of an ac tion which was im ple men ted as a mile stone for in vestor pro tec tion. The BGH has stated that share hold ers of a fund are en titled to the pub lic a tion of the names and ad dresses of their co-owners. The an onym ity of the share hold ers among them selves and their com plete de pend ence on the man age ment of the fund man age ment could thus be broken.
Anne Wen zelewski com pleted her stud ies of law with a fo cus on com pany law at Freie Uni versität Ber lin. She chose the sta tions of the legal clerk ship at the Kam mer gericht Ber lin in the area of com pany and cap ital mar ket law.
Languages
Ger man
Job Titles:
- Attorney, Partner, Specialized Lawyer for Tax Law
Job Titles:
- Attorney, Specialized Lawyer for Employment Law
David Jäntsch has been work ing as a re search as sist ant at the law firm Schirp & Part ner since Au gust 2020. In this po s i tion he mainly sup ports our law yers by provid ing sup port and re search within the Wir e card / EY sub ject area. David Jäntsch stud ied law at the Friedrich Schiller Uni ver sity Jena and gradu ated with the first state examination.
Languages
Ger man
Job Titles:
- Attorney, Partner, Specialized Lawyer for Banking and Capital Market Law, Commercial and Company Law
Since 2003, Dr. Susanne Schmidt-Morsbach has been a mem ber of Schirp & Part ner and be came a part ner in 2014. Her pro fes sional fo cus is on cap ital in vest ment, com pany and in solv ency law. In ad di tion to her qual i fic a tion as a spe cial ist at tor ney for bank ing and cap ital mar ket law, Dr. Schmidt-Morsbach holds the title of spe cial ist at tor ney for com mer cial and com pany law and works in the spe cial ist com mit tee of the law yers' cham ber. Within the last few years, she has been in volved in the suc cess ful re or gan iz a tion of many closed-end funds and has thus been able to avert sub stan tial losses from in vestors. She has a wide range of ad vis ory man dates and has been able to gather ex per i ence as a pro sec utor in hun dreds of court cases. Dr. Schmidt-Morsbach was of ten elec ted as joint rep res ent at ive of bond hold ers. In 2015, Dr. Schmidt-Morsbach, to gether with pro fes sional col leagues, foun ded the VGVD, the Verb and Ge mein samer Ver treter Deutsch land e.V., of which she has also been the chair since then. This first pro fes sional as so ci ation of joint rep res ent at ives serves in terests rep res ent a tion, fur ther edu ca tion and qual ity assurance.
Dr. Schmidt-Morsbach gained her first pro fes sional ex per i ence as a con sult ant in a large Ger man con sult ing com pany. Prior to her ad mis sion to the bar in 2000, she was a doc toral fel low at the Chair of Com mer cial and Com pany Law and In sur ance Law at Tech nis che Uni versität Ber lin. In ad di tion to law, Dr. Schmidt-Morsbach stud ied eco nom ics at Freie Uni versität Ber lin, at Albert-Ludwig-Universität in Freiburg and at Uni versité Stend hal in Gren oble, where she gradu ated with the Diplôme de Droit Français. She com pleted her legal clerk ship with sta tions in Ber lin and Lübeck at the tax of fice and the fiscal court as well as at con sult ing co por ate law firms.
Dr. Schmidt-Morsbach has pub lished nu mer ous art icles in pro fes sional journ als on in sur ance and com pany law, is co-author of the "Ber liner Kom mentar zum Ver sicher ungs ver trag s recht" and reg u larly holds lec tures on in sur ance, com mer cial and com pany law.
Job Titles:
- Attorney, Partner, Specialized Lawyer for Banking and Capital Market Law
As found ing part ner of the law firm Schirp & Part ner, Dr. Wolfgang Schirp has been ded ic ated to the rep res ent a tion of harmed in vestors since 1994 and has more than twenty years of ex per i ence in lit ig a tion and con flict res ol u tion. He is also the au thor of nu mer ous pub lic a tions on vari ous is sues of cap ital mar ket law. In par tic u lar, the es say "Aufklärung sp f lichten bei in ternen Pro vi sionsver ein bar ungen", pub lished jointly with Oleg Mosgo (pub lished in the Zeits chrift für Bank und Kapit al mark trecht - BKR 2002, 354), was cited in 2004 as an im port ant basis for the so-called kick-back jur is pru dence of the Ger man Fed eral Court of Justice
As a law yer with the ad di tional qual i fic a tion as a law yer for bank ing and cap ital mar ket law, Dr. Schirp sees him self as an at tor ney in the ser vice of in vestor pro tec tion and is in volved - be sides ju di cial rep res ent a tion of his cli ents in dam ages pro ceed ings - es pe cially in out-of-court cases such as share holder and cred itor meet ings. Since 2012, Dr. Schirp has been reg u larly in vited as an ex pert on hear ings of the Ger man Fed eral Crim inal Po lice Of fice (Bundeskrim in alamt) re gard ing the re search pro ject "Pro tec tion against In vest ig a tion by Crim inal Law". Dr. Schirp is also a found ing mem ber of the Ak tions bund Akt iver An leger s chutz e.V., the largest in vestor pro tec tion as so ci ation for in vestors of the gray cap ital market.
Dr. Schirp stud ied law at Kiel, Göt tin gen and Freiburg, fol lowed by legal clerk ship in Freiburg at the Higher Re gional Court of the dis trict of Karls ruhe, with an in ter na tional sta tion in Brussels.
Job Titles:
- Attorney at Law / Banking
Jen nifer Breßler has been work ing as a law yer at Schirp & Part ner since 2021. In her de part ment she is mainly en trus ted with Closed Ship Funds as well as with the as ser tion of con sumer rights in con nec tion with life in sur ances. In ad di tion, at tor ney Breßler ad voc ates the rights of mo tor ists, es pe cially in con nec tion with the diesel emis sions scan dal that was un covered in 2015.
Job Titles:
- Attorney at Law
- of Counsel
For many years, Pablo Solar has been a suc cess ful law yer with his own law firm which fo cuses in crim inal law. His par tic u lar spe cial isa tion is to ad vise and as sist over seas clients.
He com ple ments our firm in com ing to terms with re pay ment claims of ag grieved real es tate in vestors of Dol phin Trust GmbH re spect ively Dol phin Cap ital GmbH.
Languages
Ger man
Job Titles:
- Commercial and Company Law