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Dr. Martin Heidrich, LL.M.
Dr. Martin Heidrich, LL.M.

Dr. Martin Heidrich, LL.M.

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Martin is an expert in restructuring and insolvency law. He advises clients in connection with corporate restructuring and in the insolvency-related area. A special focus of his practice is the support of companies or shareholders in protective shield, self-administration and insolvency plan proceedings.

Martin can draw on his long-standing experience as appointed insolvency administrator in the area of business continuation and restructuring. A further focus is on the support of investors and insolvency administrators in company acquisitions from insolvency or crisis. Martin regularly publishes and lectures on insolvency and restructuring topics. He is co-editor of the magazine “Der Sanierungsberater”.

Martin is Co-Head of our Practice Area Restructuring & Insolvency Law.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Restructuring & insolvency
Creditors' rights
Distressed M&A
Advising insolvency administrators
Advising management
Corporate insolvency
Cross-border restructuring & insolvency
Distressed debt
Financial restructuring for corporates
Insolvency disputes & investigations
Pensions insolvency
Personal insolvency
Real estate restructuring
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CV

Since 2023 Lecturer, Norddeutsche Akademie für Steuern und Finanzen (NoA), Hamburg
Since 2019 Partner, Taylor Wessing
Since 2018 Lecturer, Nordakademie Hochschule der Wirtschaft, Hamburg
2017 – 2019 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing
Since 2017 Lecturer, Hamburger Steuerberaterverband and Norddeutsche Akademie für Finanzen und Steuern, Hamburg
2011 – 2017 Local Partner, White & Case, Munich, Hamburg
2008 – 2011 Partner Prof, Pannen Rechtsanwälte, Munich
2004 – 2008 Local Partner, White & Case, Munich
1999 – 2004 Associate, White & Case, Dresden
1999 Trainee solicitor, Yue Cheng Law Firm, Beijing
2010 LL.M., Mergers & Administration, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
2009 Specialist solicitor, insolvency law
2004 Graduation, Dr. iur, University of Hamburg
1999 Admitted as a laywer
1998 Second state examination, Schleswig
1995 First state examination, Hamburg
1989 Final secondary school examinations, Reinbek, state of Schleswig-Holstein

Career

Since 2023 Lecturer, Norddeutsche Akademie für Steuern und Finanzen (NoA), Hamburg
Since 2019 Partner, Taylor Wessing
Since 2018 Lecturer, Nordakademie Hochschule der Wirtschaft, Hamburg
2017 – 2019 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing
Since 2017 Lecturer, Hamburger Steuerberaterverband and Norddeutsche Akademie für Finanzen und Steuern, Hamburg
2011 – 2017 Local Partner, White & Case, Munich, Hamburg
2008 – 2011 Partner Prof, Pannen Rechtsanwälte, Munich
2004 – 2008 Local Partner, White & Case, Munich
1999 – 2004 Associate, White & Case, Dresden
1999 Trainee solicitor, Yue Cheng Law Firm, Beijing

Education

2010 LL.M., Mergers & Administration, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
2009 Specialist solicitor, insolvency law
2004 Graduation, Dr. iur, University of Hamburg
1999 Admitted as a laywer
1998 Second state examination, Schleswig
1995 First state examination, Hamburg
1989 Final secondary school examinations, Reinbek, state of Schleswig-Holstein

Publications

Die Besteuerung von Sanierungsgewinnen – Löst ein Forderungsverzicht zu Sanierungszwecken nach § 7 Abs. 8 ErbStG Schenkungsteueraus?, in: Der Sanierungsberater, 2025 

SanB 4/2024, Seite 166 ff. Dr. Martin Heidrich und Constantin Borowiak „Die Restschuldbefreiung, Selbstverständnis oder Privatautonomie

SanB 4/2024, Seite 202 ff. Dr. Martin Heidrich, Tobias Rhode und Ole Schudwitz „Anmerkung zu OLG Stuttgart, Beschluss vom 21.8.2024 – 20 U 30/24“

Markt und Mittelstand, 9/2024, S. 56 ff. Dr. Martin Heidrich „Kontrolle, Kontrolle, Kontrolle – Welche Gefahren ungenügendes Risikomanagement birgt“

Markt und Mittelstand, 8/2024, S. 83 ff. Dr. Martin Heidrich „Für den Fall der Fälle vorbereiten. Unternehmer sollten sich anschauen, welche Sanierungsmöglichkeiten vor einer Insolvenz bestehen.“

Medizinische Versorgungszentren in der Krise – Präventive Sanierung und Restrukturierung über StaRUG in der Praxis, in: NWB Sanieren 3/2023, S. 78 - 82

Erstes StaRUG-Verfahren in Schleswig-Holstein - ein Restrukturierungsfall im Gesundheitswesen, in: Der Sanierungsberater, 03/2023

§ 4 S. 1. Nr. 2 StaRUG: eine „verunglückte Pendantvorschrit“ zu § 302 Nr. 1 InsO?, in: Der SanierungsBerater 02/2022, S. 18 – 22, togehter with Yahya Zakariya Agourram

Der Hinweis auf einen zu beauftragenden gemeinsamen Vertreter – Zu den Grenzen der Neutralitätspflicht des Insolvenzverwalter, in: Der SanierungsBerater 02/2022, S. 40 together with Fabian Lang

Das StaRUG in der Wirklichkeit angekommen: Der Fall ETERNA, Der SanierungsBerater 2022, S.11, Dr. Martin Heidrich und Frank Günther

Mehrheitsprinzip und Bindungswirkung bei Unternehmensrestrukturierungen – Buchbesprechung: Der SanierungsBerater 2022, S. 15, Dr. Martin Heidrich und Sophia Henninger, Nicolas Kreuzmann

„Das Jahr 2021 – ein Paradoxon – wenig Geschäft, aber viel Umbruch und Fortschritt in der Sanierung“ in: Der SanierungsBerater 04/2021

Center of Main Interest: Welcher Standort ist der richtige?, Zitat in: FINANCE Magazin, 10/2021

Gesellschaftervereinbarungen in der GmbH, Mit-Autor im Rechtshandbuch, herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. Daniel Graewe, LL.M., 08/2021

Fallstricke der Restrukturierungsplanbestätigung kurz vor dem Ziel (Teil 1 ), in: Der SanierungsBerater, 06/2021, gemeinsam mit Dr. Rembert T. Graf Kerssenbrock, LL.M.

Gesetz über den Stabilisierungs- und Restrukturierungsrahmen für Unternehmen, Kommentar zu §§ 60 - 66, in: StaRUG.online, 04/2021

SanInsFoG final umgesetzt – was bleibt, was musste gehen?, in: Der SanierungsBerater 01/2021, gemeinsam mit Dr. Alexander Senninger, LL.M. (Cambridge)

Ein Überblick über die gesetzlichen Änderungen und Neuerungen nach dem SanInsFoG und dem StaRUG, in: Der SanierungsBerater 04/2020, S. 164 - 168, gemeinsam mit Rebecca Gabriel

Rope-a-dope / Der insolvenzrechtliche Squeeze-Out, in: Der SanierungsBerater 03/2020, S. 119 - 123, gemeinsam mit Dr. Rembert T. Graf Kerssenbrock, LL.M.

Das Verhältnis von Gesellschaftervereinbarung und der gesellschaftsrechtlichen Treuepflicht in der Krise der Gesellschaft (Teil I), in: Der SanierungsBerater 02/2020, S. 44-46, gemeinsam mit Saskia Steinicke

Die Idee des sogenannten qualifizierten Rangrücktritts und die Fallstricke in der Praxis, in: Der SanierungsBerater 01/2020, S. 16 - 21, gemeinsam mit Saskia Steinicke

Corona: Reine Symptombekämpfung mittels staatlichen „Hilfspaketes“, in: Der SanierungsBerater 01/2020, S. 2 - 7, gemeinsam mit Titus Michel, Saskia Steinicke

Regierungsentwurf zur Einführung von Sondervorschriften für die Sanierung und Abwicklung von zentralen Gegenparteien, in: DER BETRIEB 44/2019, gemeinsam mit Anna Izzo-Wagner

Kolumne "Die Insolvenz eines privaten Klinikbetreibers - das Ende?", in: Health & Care 4/2019, together with Xiaowen Paulus-Ye, p. 63

Forderungen gegenüber Gläubigern in der Unternehmenskrise, in: bank und markt 03/2019, pS 27 ff., gemeinsam mit Bastian Clement

Operatives Sanierungsmanagement, in: Praxishandbuch Sanierung im Mittelstand, Hrsg. Dr. Dr. Stephan Hohberger/RA Hellmut Damlachi, 2019, S. 999 - 1155, gemeinsam mit Stephan Pecher

Steuerberatung in der Krise des Mandanten – Neue Risiken, aber auch neue Chancen, in: Heidrich/Mehmel, StB 2018, S. 65-70, gemeinsam mit Julian Mehmel

New Roles and New Opportunities for Distressed Investors, in: Financial Year Book 2016, p. 91 ff.

Shop to Swap – Debt-Equity-Swap und Forum Shopping”, in: Christoph Schalast (Ed.), actual aspects of M&A-business – year-book 2010, p. 15ff.

Legal-philosophical fundamentals of the protection of natural resources. Regarding the normative stages of the ecological question, Hamburg, 2004

Memberships & Associations

INSOL Europe
BRSI
TMA

Additional languages

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Awards

The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2025

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Best lawyers: Restructuring and insolvency law

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TOP Lawyer & TOP Law Firm: Restructuring

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Recommended Lawyer for restructuring

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Good negotiator - full of ideas., client

”successful establishment of an insolvency law practice in Hamburg”, competitor

Frequently recommended lawyer for restructuring and insolvency law

Leading individual: Restructuring and Insolvency Law

Key lawyer for Restructuring

Frequently recommended lawyer for restructuring and insolvency law

"Successful establishment of a focus on insolvency law in Hanover", competitor

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"pragmatic & solution-oriented", competitor

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"Very pragmatic and solution-oriented."

„solution-oriented and unpretentious“, competitor

"Experienced and professionally respected in the market"

Experience

MVZ Group: Taylor Wessing accompanies the first StaRUG procedure in Schleswig-Holstein

Taylor Wessing, together with restructuring experts from PUKE DRESEN MALL, has successfully concluded the first court proceedings within the framework of the Corporate Stabilization and Restructuring Act (StaRUG) in Schleswig-Holstein.

Dr. Martin Heidrich, LL.M.
Rebecca Gabriel
Tobias Rhode, LL.B.

Advising Köver GmbH & Co. KG metal and plastics processing on restructuring by means of (provisional) self-administration

The medium-sized Köver GmbH & Co. KG has filed an application for reorganization as part of a self-administration process at the competent district court

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Tobias Rhode, LL.B.

Advising the insolvency administrator Hendrik Gittermann on the sale of the steel construction division of Nobiskrug Werft to the Heinrich Rönner Group

The Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft acquires the traditional Rendsburger shipyard Nobiskrug GmbH from insolvency.

Dr. Martin Heidrich, LL.M.
Tobias Rhode, LL.B.
Rebecca Gabriel

Taylor Wessing advises Montanstahl AG on the acquisition of Hoesch Schwerter Extruded Profiles GmbH

Hoesch Schwerter Extruded Profiles GmbH was taken over by the Swiss Montanstahl AG as part of a self-administration process on July 1, 2021 and thus restructured.

Dr. Martin Heidrich, LL.M.

Taylor Wessing advises Insolvency Administrator on the sale of the Veritas Group to HDT Automotive Solutions

The US based supplier HDT Automotive Solutions is acquiring in the course of the insolvency proceedings the German automotive and industrial supplier including the international subsidiaries in Asia, North America and Europe.

Dr. Martin Heidrich, LL.M.
Dr. Tillmann Pfeifer
Tobias Rhode, LL.B.
Dr. Daniel Graske
Timo Stellpflug
Dr. Jan Kern
Hannes Tutt
Niels Heim
Dr. Marco Hartmann-Rüppel, Dipl.-Volkswirt

Restructuring of the railway company Abellio Germany

Representation of small creditors in the creditors' committees of the operating companies

Dr. Martin Heidrich, LL.M.

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