Senior Associate

Dr. Carl-Friedrich Thoma

Rechtsanwalt

Languages

German
English
French
Swedish

Dr Carl-Friedrich Thoma focusses on transactions, advising large medium-sized companies as well as corporate groups and strategic investors on the acquisition and sale of companies in Germany and abroad, including corporate law structuring. He also advises on group law.

Carl-Friedrich started his legal career in 2021 at a boutique corporate law firm in Hamburg and joined CMS in 2022. During his PhD studies, he worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg.

Publications

ZuFinG – Mehrstimmrechtsaktien als Instrument für Familienunternehmer und Gründer?, Recht der Familienunternehmen (RFamU) 2023, Heft 10, 443
Länderbericht Schweden, in: Fleischer (Hrsg.) Personengesellschaften im Rechtsvergleich, C.H. Beck, München 2021
Insolvenzrechtliche Gläubigerautonomie im Gläubigerausschuss (Abhandlungen zum Deutschen und Europäischen Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2019
Fehlerhafte Personengesellschaft und Scheingesellschaft: Eine rechtsvergleichende Gegenlese, in: Privatrechtsdogmatik im 21. Jahrhundert – Festschrift für Claus-Wilhelm Canaris zum 80. Geburtstag, De Gruyter, Berlin 2017, 841 – 868

Memberships & Roles

Friends of Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Swedish Chamber of Commerce

Education

2020: Second state examination in law
2018: PhD, University of Freiburg
2017: Research period at the University of Oxford (Max Planck Gildesgame Fellowship)
2010 - 2015: Law studies at the University of Freiburg as German Academic Scholarship Foundation scholar

Practice Areas

Corporate / M&A Structuring under corporate law Mergers & Acquisitions

Insights

Global Reach

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