Carolin Schmeding

Practice Areas

Carolin Schmeding has advised on numerous construction and long-term financings of seagoing vessels as well as structured container financings. In the context of the restructuring of maritime financings, Carolin Schmeding also advises on insolvency law issues.

One of her main areas of practice is advising clients on corporate law in connection with share and company transfers and corporate restructurings. Carolin Schmeding advises investors from Germany and abroad on M&A transactions and their investments in the German shipping industry.

Carolin Schmeding has been a lecturer in Maritime Law at the Hamburg School of Business Administration from 2014 until 2020. She holds lectures, workshops and seminars for clients on selected legal topics.

Career

Carolin Schmeding is recommended by Legal 500 Deutschland 2022 and 2023 as “leading name in the field of ship finance.”

Publications

2009: The organisation of access to the seaport and seaport competition under German antitrust law and European competition law

Publications of the Institute for Maritime Law and Maritime Trade Law of the University of Hamburg Vol. 20, LIT Verlag, 2009

2013: Chapter 5, Section 8: (Cross-Border) Leasing

(in collaboration with Dr. Stefan Rindfleisch)

in: Hamburg Handbook of Export Law, Verlag Carl H. Dieckmann, 1st edition 2009