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Franziska Fuchs
Counsel

Franziska Fuchs, LL.M. (The University of Sydney)

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Languages
  • German
  • English
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Franziska Fuchs advises companies in crisis. This includes preventive restructurings, insolvency (plan) proceedings, insolvency protection proceedings and self-administration proceedings. She represents creditors of companies in crisis or insolvent businesses in the context of enforcing claims or defending against claims to contest debtor’s transactions in insolvency proceedings. Franziska also advises shareholders and managing directors on finance and liability matters. Furthermore, her practice covers restructurings and distressed M&A transactions as well as internal group finance issues, including the implementation of cash pooling systems.

Franziska joined CMS in 2019. She trained with various international law firms, mainly working with their restructuring/insolvency and banking/finance practices. She is a scholar of Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (German Corporation for International Cooperation). She was named Counsel in 2025.

Publications

  • "Geschäftsführerhaftung für Zahlungen nach insolvenzreife"- Das scharfe Schwert des § 15b InsO, Euroforum, 2023 (together wirh Dr Alexandra Schluck-Amend)
  • GmbH Geschäftsführung 2021: Ihr Update zu allen haftungsträchtigen Themen dieser Zeit, eBook GmbH-Geschäftsführer*innen 2021 (Link)Autoren: Alexandra Schluck-Amend, Franziska Fuchs, Tobias Grau und Militsa Decheva

Memberships & Roles

  • Stuttgart Bar Association

Education

  • 2018: Second state examination in law
  • 2016 - 2018: Trainee lawyer in Nuremberg Higher Regional Court district
  • 2016: First state examination in law
  • 2011 - 2016: Law studies at the University of Bayreuth with a focus on business and tax law
  • 2015: Graduated as German Wirtschaftsjurist (business lawyer) at the University of Bayreuth
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