Dr Winfried Richardt
Lawyer
Partner
- T +49 211 518989-136
- F +49 211 518989-29
- Dusseldorf
Competences
Commercial Corporate Management of Shareholder Meetings Capital Market Law Restructuring, Recapitalisation & InsolvencyLanguages
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Dr Winfried Richardt
Career
Dr Winfried Richardt is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT in Dusseldorf and member of the Corporate/M&A practice group. In his work he focuses on the areas of competence corporate law, stock corporation law, restructurings and capital market law. His area of activity comprises in particular the ongoing corporate advice on limited liability companies law and stock corporation law. This includes advice during preparation and implementation of shareholders' and general meetings also of listed companies as well as corporate governance issues in complex group structures in the context of interaction between various group companies and its bodies. Dr Richardt further focuses on capital market law topics from the issuer's perspective and assists with restructurings within companies and groups. In addition, he addresses legal issues concerning financial reporting and publicity, in particular annual and consolidated financial statements.
Dr Winfried Richardt studied law at the University of Cologne (Dr iur. 1997) and was admitted to the German Bar in 1999. From 1999 until 2002 he worked as Inhouse counsel with a DAX-listed energy supply group, focusing on corporate and capital market law issues but also addressing general civil law matters. From 2002 until 2017 he headed the department in charge of corporate legal matters and capital market law of a major DAX/MDAX-listed wholesale and retail group. He joined BEITEN BURKHARDT as Partner in 2017.
Publications / Lectures
Publications:
Notary Guide Corporate Law
Hauschild/Kallrath/Wachter (Ed.),
C. H. Beck Verlag, Munich, 2nd edition 2017, 1st edition 2011
Corporate Law in the Reform Discussion
Kämmerer/K. Schmidt/Veil (Ed.)
Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2013
General Meeting 2009 - Trends and Tendencies
GoingPublic Magazin, special edition Kapitalmarktrecht 2009
Flexibilisation of Pay Conditions in Employment Contracts
Richardt Verlag Dr Otto Schmidt, Cologne, 1997
Lectures:
Lecture "Capital Market Communication – Considerations for the Legal Practice"
Conference "Framework of Capital Market Communication" on 24 September 2015 in Frankfurt am Main
(Deutsches Aktieninstitut, Frankfurt am Main)
Lecture on Legal and Practice Issues Regarding the General Meeting of Listed Companies
Annual Conference "Focal Point Joint Stock Company" on 22/23 September 2014 in Dusseldorf
(Euroforum, Dusseldorf)
Lecture "The Period Between Annual Financial Statement and General Meeting Under Corporate Law Aspects"
In-House Counsel Conference 2010 on 23/24 February 2010 in Berlin
(Euroforum, Dusseldorf)
Lecture on Legal and Practice Issues Regarding the General Meeting of Listed Companies
Conferences BeckAkademie "General Meeting" 2009 – 2012
(C. H. Beck Verlag, Munich)
Lecture "General Meetings in Times of the ARUG (Shareholder Rights Directive Implementation Act)" Fifth Hamburg Forum – "1000 Days of Reforms of Corporate Law" on 17 June 2011 in Hamburg
(Bucerius Law School, Hamburg)
Lecture "The Provisions on Individual Disclosure" (of Remuneration of Management Board)
Seminar "Remuneration Systems and Corporate Governance Faced With New Challenges" on 7 July 2009 in Frankfurt am Main
(Deutsches Aktieninstitut, Frankfurt am Main)
Press releases
NEWS
BEITEN BURKHARDT Advises Puratos Group N.V. on Acquisition of the Bakery Ingredients Business of PMG Premium Mühlen Gruppe GmbH & Co. KG |
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BEITEN BURKHARDT Advises ING DiBa on Acquisition of Lendico |
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BEITEN BURKHARDT Elects a Total of 20 New Partners, Four of them Equity Partners |
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BEITEN BURKHARDT advises SieMatic owners on sale of majority shareholding to Nison Group |
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