Attorney at Law/Insolvency Law Specialist
Office
Düsseldorf/Aachen/Paderborn/Bochum/Mönchengladbach/Dortmund/Berlin
Contact data
rechtsanwaelte@kebekus-zimmermann.de
Phone +49 211/497659-0
Principal activities
Insolvency administration, insolvency plans, restructuring consultancy, international insolvency law
Training/career
- 2001 founded the Kebekus et Zimmermann partnership with offices in Düsseldorf, Berlin, Paderborn, Bochum, Dortmund, Mönchengladbach and Aachen
- 1993 took over the partnership and established the law firm of Piepenburg & Dr. Kebekus
- 1992 employed as an attorney with the insolvency firm of Zirpins & Partner
- 1991 Dissertation on company law with Prof. Dr. H. P. Westermann
- 1991 2nd State Law Examination Düsseldorf
- Internships in Düsseldorf, London and Berlin
- 1988 1st State Law Examination Berlin
- Studied Law at the Freie Universität Berlin
Memberships
- Gravenbrucher Kreis (supra-regional association of professional insolvency administrators; speaker since 01/2007) www.gravenbrucher-kreis.de
- co-founder of the Institut für Interdisziplinäre Restrukturierung (iir) e.V. (Institute on International Restructuring in cooperation with the Humboldt University Berlin) www.iir-hu.de
- VID e.V. (German Association of Insolvency Administrators) www.vid.de
- INSOL Europe www.insol-europe.org
- German Association of Legal Attorneys (DAV) working party on insolvency law and restructuring
- Since 2007 member of expert groups set up by the German Ministry of Justice on insolvencies of groups of companies and on the international competitiveness of German insovency law
- Preliminary review committee for specialist insolvency lawyers at the Rechtsanwaltskammer Düsseldorf [Local Bar Association] (until 2010)
- Auditor to the Rechtsanwaltskammer Düsseldorf (until 2006)
Foreign languages
English
Publications/papers
- Commentary on insolvency law, published by Marie Luise Graf-Schlicker, on §§ 217 ff. (insolvency plans) and international insolvency law as a whole, co-authored jointly with Oliver Sabel and Ursula Schlegel, 2nd edition 2010
- With Ursula Schlegel and Oliver Sabel: Cross Border Insolvencies: Germany, Cologne 2008, (2nd edition to come out once draft law ESUG comes into force)
- Business Judgment Rule und Geschäftsleiterermessen – auch in Krise und Insolvenz? [Business Judgment Rule and Management discretion – also during crisis and insolvency?], in: Festschrift für Georg Maier-Reimer zum 70. Geburtstag, München 2010
- IAS/IFRS and Insolvency Law, ZGR 2008, 275-283
- Grenzüberschreitende Insolvenzen in der Insolvenzpraxis. Kollision der Zuständigkeiten – Fallstudien – Handlungsstrategien [Cross-border insolvencies in practice. The conflict between jurisdictions – case studies – action strategies], (conference publication accompanying the Symposium on International Insolvency Law, February 2004, Cologne)
- Grenzüberschreitende Insolvenzen – Neue Herausforderung an die Insolvenzpraxis [Cross-border insolvencies – new challenges facing insolvency practice], Insolvency Forum 2004, Grundlsee/Austria, 2004, conference publication by Andreas Konecny
- Altlasten in der Insolvenz – aus Verwaltersicht [bad debts in the case of insolvency – the administrators view], NZI 2001, page 63 ff.
- Alternativen zur Rechtsform des Idealvereins im Bundesdeutschen Lizenzfußball [Alternatives to the not-for-profit club as a legal form in German professional football], Europäische Hochschulschriften, Series II, Volume 1160, 1991
- Extensive presentations and seminars (staff training in insolvency law, international insolvency law, scientific management of the RWS Forum on Insolvency Law 2006, chairman of the Handelsblattt Symposium Insolvenzrecht etc.)
