Dr Hendrik Thies

Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer) and Partner

Certified Specialist in Corporate and Commercial Law

Languages

German

English

Practices

Awards

JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2025/26

Publications

Neues Recht: Freie Wahl des Sitzes bei Personengesellschaften – Die Regelungen des MoPeG im Überblick (New law: Free choice of registered office for partnerships – an overview of the provisions of the MoPeG), Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel, Issue 9, April 2024 (together with Ron Fahlteich)

BGH stärkt Flexibilität bei genehmigtem Kapital (Federal Court of Justice strengthens flexibility with authorized capital), Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel, issue 25, 12/2023 (together with Jonas Doser)

Neue Gesellschafterliste: Einreichung nur durch Geschäftsführer in vertretungsberechtigter Zahl (New List of Shareholders: Submission only by managing directors in authorized number), Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel, Issue 15, July 2023 (together with Ron Fahlteich)

Contracts must be watertight. MTDialog, 1/2021 (together with Dr. Meike Kapp-Schwoerer)

Liability for medical devices – Good contracts and insurance necessary, MTDialog 10/2020, p. 50 f. (together with Dr. Meike Kapp-Schwoerer)

Medizinprodukte: Sonderzulassung nach strengen Regeln (Medical devices: Special approval according to strict rules), MTDialog 6/2020, p. 56 et seq. (together with Meike Kapp-Schwoerer)

Co-author of the Handbook Manz/Mayer/Schröder: „Die GmbH” (1. Edt.., Haufe Verlag 2020)

Umfang von Gerichtsstandsvereinbarungen und Treuwidrigkeit der Geltendmachung eines Zurückbehaltungsrechts (Scope of Choice of Court Agreements and breach of trust in connection with the assertion of the right of retention), commentary on the decision of the Higher Regional Court of Munich of 13 October 2016, co-authorsip with Dr. Jan Barth, IWRZ 2017, 39

Rügelose Einlassung bei Gerichtsstandsvereinbarung zugunsten von Drittstaaten [Plea without Objection with Regard to Agreements on Jurisdiction in Favour of Third Countries], commentary on the ECJ decision of 17 March 2016, (“Taser International / Gate 4”), co-authorship with Dr. Oliver Wasmeier, IWRZ 2016, 132

Unzulässige Erschwerung des Kündigungsrechts eines Handelsvertreters [Impermissible Restriction on a Commercial Agent’s Right of Termination], commentary on the Federal Court of Justice’s decision of 5 November 2015, BB 2016, 20

Co-author of the Handbook Manz/Mayer/Schröder: Die Aktiengesellschaft [The German Stock Corporation], (7th edition, Haufe Verlag 2014)

Kündigungsregelungen für nebenberufliche Handelsvertreter, Kommentar zu BGH-Urteil vom 21.3.2013 [Termination Provisions for Part-time Sales Representatives, Commentary on the Federal Justice Court’s Decision of 21 March 2013], BB 2013, 1428

International Cash Pooling – National Report for Germany, in: Jansen, Justus (editor), International Cash Pooling, Cross-border Cash Management Systems amd Intra-group Financing, published by Sellier Verlag München, 2011, pages 135-156

Kein Haftungsausschluss bei arglistig verschwiegenem Mangel trotz fehlender Kausalität, Kommentar zu BGH-Urteil vom 15.7.2011 [No Exemption from Liability in the Event of Fraudulently Concealed Damages Notwithstanding Missing Causality, Commentary on the Federal Court of Justice’s Decision of 15 July 2011], BB 2011, 2644

Erwerb von Geschäftsanteilen vom Nichtberechtigten [The Bona Fide Purchase of Shares from a Person without Title], SteuerConsultant 10/2009

Umwandlung einer Limited in eine GmbH [The Transformation of a Limited Company into a German GmbH], SteuerConsultant 5/2009

Risikobegrenzungsgesetz und neue Investorenerklärung [The Risk Limitation Act and New Investor’s Declaration], dpn of the Financial Times, 5/2009

Co-author of Haufe’s Database on Company Law [Haufe Datenbank zum Gesellschaftsrecht]

MoMiG: Unternehmergesellschaft (haftungsbeschränkt) [Entrepreneurial company (limited liability)], SteuerConsultant 8/2008

Bildung eines mitbestimmten Aufsichtsrates bei Gesellschaften unterhalb der Konzernspitze – insbesondere bei Muttergesellschaft im Ausland, Mitteilungsblatt der ARGE für Internationalen Rechtsverkehr (Formation of a co-determined supervisory board for companies below the group level – especially for parent companies abroad, Newsletter of the Working Group for International Legal Affairs) in DAV 2/2008

Pflichtangebot nach Umwandlung [Mandatory Offers after a Change of Corporate Form] (2006)

FGvW advises Schwarzwaldmilch Freiburg on the acquisition of the Martin Bauhofer Cheese Factory

FGvW advised Schwarzwaldmilch GmbH Freiburg on the acquisition of all shares of Martin Bauhofer Käserei GmbH in the Allgäu region in Germany. The Schwarzwaldmilch Group is one of the leading dairies with 430 employees in Baden-Württemberg, Southern Germany. In 2025, the group collected and processed approximately 260 million kg of milk at its locations in...

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