

Frank R. Primozic
Lawyer, Licensed Specialist for Commercial and Corporate Law, Licensed Specialist for Tax Law
Partner
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- Frankfurt/Main
Competences
Banking, Finance & Insurance Law Conflict Resolution Restructuring, Recapitalisation & InsolvencyLanguages
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Frank R. Primozic
Career
Frank R. Primozic is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Frankfurt office and member of the practice group Banking/Finance & Capital Markets. Additionally he is working in the competence area of Restructuring, Recapitalization and Insolvency. He is specialised in insolvency-related issues and renders advice on collateralised financings, the relating securities and their realisation within and outside of opened insolvency proceedings. In these areas Frank Primozic provides legal advice and represents insolvency administrators, creditors and other parties involved in corporate insolvencies.
After his legal studies at Freie Universität Berlin and legal training at the Regional Court of Darmstadt (Second State Examination 1997) Frank Primozic worked in his own regional law office. In 2001, he joined BEITEN BURKHARDT. Frank Primozic is qualified and admitted as a tax law specialist since 2004 and as a commercial and corporate law specialist since 2007.
Awards
Publications / Lectures
Publications:
"Powers of the insolvency administrator in the event of realisation of the name of a public limited company (Aktiengesellschaft)";
Comment on the decision of the Federal Court of Justice of 26 November 2019 - II ZB 21/17, Neue Zeitschrift für Insolvenz- und Sanierungsrecht, p. 239-240.
The Expansion of the Liability for Destruction of the Economic Basis (Existenzvernichtungs-haftung) through the Federal Supreme Court and the Repercussions on Structuring under Corporate Law
NZI 2019, S. 266-273, Co-Author Dr Moritz Handrup;
"On the Scope of Coverage of the Directors' and Officers' Insurance"
ZInsO 46/2018, p. 2509-2512; Co-Author Nicolas Nöller;
"The Rulings of the Federal Court of Justice on the Invalidity of Close-out Netting Regulations in Master Agreement for Financial Derivatives Transactions"
WM 2016 - Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Bankrecht, No. 44, p. 2110 et seq., Co-Author Joel Felix Schaaf;
"Renaissance of the Qualified Subordination of Claims, or Babylonian Speech Confusion?"
ZInsO 26/2015, p. 1250-1252; co-author Anthony Trentin;
"GTC Control of Subordination Agreements"
Frank Primozic
ZInsO 38/2014, p. 1831-1835; co-author Joel Felix Schaaf;
"Builder's Security [Bauhandwerkersicherung] (Sec. 648a BGB) as Grounds for Insolvency?"
BauR 12/2013, pp. 1934 et seq. and ZInsO 3/2014, pp. 71 et seq.; co-author Christina Brugugnone;
"The Insolvency Administrator's Realisation Authority With Regards to Pledged Receivables?"
Annotation re Decision of the Federal Court of Justice, of 11 April 2013 – IX ZR 176/11,
Neue Zeitschrift für das Recht der Insolvenz und Sanierung 2013, 596, Co-Author Matthias Doetsch;
"Managing Director's Liability when Providing Loan Collaterals"
NJW 2013, pp. 1709 et seq., co-author Christina Brugugnone;
"Better safe than sorry..., Does the "IKB-Decision" Mark the End of the Securitisation Market?"
in: Jahrbuch Unternehmensrelevantes Recht 2011/2012, pp. 39-42, co-author Heinrich Meyer;
"The Securitisation Transaction – Asset-based financing of enterprises at the capital market"
Frank R. Primozic, co-editor and -author: "Risk Transfer", pp. 81-115, 135-141;
"Prospectus (Offering Circular)"
pp. 306-308;
"Project Management and Control of a Securisation Transaction"
pp. 341-344 / RICHARD BOORBERG VERLAG/2011/Ed. Heinrich Meyer and Frank R. Primozic;
"Contestability of the Satisfaction of a Claim that has been Assigned for Security Purposes on the Grounds of Discrimination of Creditors"
Neue Zeitschrift für das Recht der Insolvenz und Sanierung, 23-2011, pp. 927-928, co-author Dr. Marcus Schwab;
"The German Act for Further Facilitation of Corporate Restructuring (ESUG): More Creditors’ Influence and Restructuring Opportunities"
DER PLATOW Brief, No. 137, Friday, 25 November 2011, p. 5;
"Asset Deals in View of the Current Court Rulings on Avoidance in Insolvency"
Neue Juristische Wochenschrift, 2010, pp. 2922-2925, co-author Matthias Doetsch;
"Facts to be Demonstrated by the Recipient of Gratuitous Services"
Annotation to Decision of FCJ of 17 December 2009 - IX ZR 16/09), Neue Zeitschrift für das Recht der Insolvenz und Sanierung, 08-2010, pp. 297-298;
"Considerations on Pre-notified Pledges"
Neue Zeitschrift für das Recht der Insolvenz und Sanierung, 02-2010, pp. 49-51, co-author Marco Tautorat;
"Consent to a Bailiff’s Search as "Legal Act"?"
Neue Zeitschrift für das Recht der Insolvenz und Sanierung, 01-2010/pp. 15-16;
"Insolvency Remoteness of Lease Contracts Concluded Under the Concept of "Bi-Level Leasing""
Neue Zeitschrift für das Recht der Insolvenz und Sanierung, 08-2008, pp. 465-469;
"German Supreme Court Eases Liability of Board Members in Insolvency"
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 26 September 2007;
"Fixing of Excessive Amounts as Security for Cost of Litigation Against Non-Domestic Plaintiffs"
MDR, 2007, pp. 188-192, co-author Christoph Broich;
"Unlawful Treatment of Non-German Plaintiffs at German Courts"
Legal Tribune, May 2006, p. 3;
"Cash-Pooling Versus Factoring?"
Neue Zeitschrift für das Recht der Insolvenz und Sanierung, 2005, pp. 358-363;
"The Treatment of Litigious Legal Relations of a GmbH with Respect to the Obligation to an Insolvency Petition"
GmbHRundschau, 2005, pp. 160-164, co-author Stefan Feckl;
"Concerning the Question Whether a German Insolvency Administrator has a Right to Realize Pledged Company Interests"
Neue Zeitschrift für das Recht der Insolvenz und Sanierung, 2004, pp. 363-367, co-author Judith Voll;
"Finanzsicherheitenrichtlinie" as Disguised Compromise"
Börsen-Zeitung, 14 April 2004;
"Privilege of the Banks"
Financial Times Deutschland, 6 May 2003;
"Planning in Time is Worthwhile also under Tax Aspects"
Monthly Publications of the Regional Chambers of Industry and Commerce, 2002;
""Clean cut", GmbH-sale-liquidation-insolvency petition"
GbmH-Steuerpraxis, 2000, pp. 161-166;
"Is it Possible that the Provisional Administrator (Nachlasspfleger) of an Estate Asserts Rights to a Compulsory Portion Belonging to an Estate?"
Neue Juristische Wochenschrift, 2000, pp. 711-712.
Lectures:
Speaker on the subject of "True Sale Transactions, Factoring – ABS – NPL"
FORUM Institut für Management GmbH;
Panelist/Moderator on the occasion of various conferences and events of True Sale International, Hanseatic Securitisation Forum and Convent Kongresse.