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Jochen N. Schlotter
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Dr. Jochen N. Schlotter

Rechtsanwalt, Notary Public

Languages
  • German
  • English
  • Dutch
  • French
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
  • Swedish

Jochen Schlotter’s practice focuses on stock corporation and capital markets law, taking care of (annual and extraordinary) general meetings for listed companies and advising them on an ongoing basis on corporate governance issues and the fulfilment of their obligations under capital markets law. He also advises companies on public takeovers and the structuring of groups. In addition, Jochen is a notary and in this capacity regularly involved in corporate transactions, restructurings and changes of corporate form.

Jochen joined CMS in 2001 and became a partner in 2007. In 2008, he was seconded to CMS Madrid and has since been part of the firm’s German-Spanish desk. He teaches at different German academic institutions, such as EBS (European Business School) in Wiesbaden, the University of Münster, where he is a lecturer for the university’s LL.M. programme, and the University of Heidelberg’s law department. Jochen is also among the authors of “Beurkundung von Unternehmenstransaktionen“ (Notarisation of Corporate Transactions), a practical guide published by one of Germany’s leading legal publishers.

Awards & Recognitions
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    Listed for Mergers and Acquisitions
    Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2025 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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    Listed for Mergers and Acquisitions
    Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2024 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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    Listed for Mergers and Acquisitions
    Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2023 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers

Relevant experience

  • Advising numerous German listed stock corporations on corporate and stock corporation law matters (capital increases, AGMs, corporate governance)
  • Numerous notarisations of large M&A and real estate transactions

Publications

  • Leutner / Schlotter / Zätzsch, Beurkundung von Unternehmenstransaktionen, Beck 2015
  • 21.01.2008 "Ein Jahr EHUG - die ersten Praxiserfahrungen", BetriebsBerater (BB) 2008
  • Teichmann, Mattheus, Kainer, Zivilrechtliche Anwaltsfälle in Studium und Examen, Juristische Schriftenreihe, Beitrag zum Erbrecht, Beck-Verlag 2007
  • Das EHUG ist in Kraft getreten: Das Recht der Unternehmenspublizität hat eine neue Grundlage, BetriebsBerater 2007, p. 1
  • Makrotron-Urteil des Bundesgerichthofs - Die Folgen für den Rückzug von der Börse, Going Public Magazin - Das Kapitalmarktmagazin 2003, p. 40 ff
  • Entschleierung der verschleierten Sacheinlage in der GmbH, Der Syndikus, 34. Ausgabe 2003
  • Erbrechtliche Probleme in der Société Privée Européenne 2002

Memberships & Roles

  • German Bar Association
  • Frankfurter Anwaltsverein e.V.
  • Deutsch-Lusitanische Juristenvereinigung e.V.

Education

  • 2001: PhD on inheritance and international private law issues in multinational companies
  • 2000: Second state examination in law
  • 1997 - 2000: Research assistant at the Institute for German and European Corporate and Business Law in Heidelberg (Prof. Dr. Hommelhoff)
  • 1997: First state examination in law
  • Law studies in Heidelberg
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