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Carl-Friedrich Thoma
Senior Associate

Dr. Carl-Friedrich Thoma

Rechtsanwalt

Hamburg, Germany
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 by Carl-Friedrich

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Deals Germany

CMS advises shareholders of Miebach Consulting on their sale to Investcorp

20 Mar 2025 2 min read
Deals Germany

Luxcara and GreenH realise one of the first major green hydrogen projects in Norway with the assistance of CMS

31 Jan 2025 2 min read
Deals Germany

CMS advises Hamburg-based investment partnership Vorsprung on acquisition of leading steel bridge builder ZSB Zwickauer Sonderstahlbau GmbH

09 Jan 2025 2 min read
News Germany

CMS advises the founder and managing partner of Orendt on transaction with Beyond Capital Partners

26 Sep 2024 2 min read
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