Practice Areas
In line with the strategic focus of Dr. Beck & Partner, Dr. Ampferl specialises in the restructuring and reorganisation of companies under insolvency conditions. Based on many years of experience, his core competencies include the stabilisation and mass continuation of companies. On a case-by-case basis, he develops reorganisation concepts and business plans to restore the competitiveness of companies. He implements these through investor solutions and insolvency plans, thereby securing jobs in the long term. As a trustee, he assists and supports in complex self-administration and protective shield proceedings. In addition, he manages and structures self-administrations as chief revenue officer (CRO) or general representative. He acts as restructuring officer in restructuring proceedings under the German Restructuring Act (StaRUG). Dr Ampferl is also the author of numerous specialist publications and a speaker on practical insolvency law issues.
Professional Memberships
- Insolvency Law and Company Reorganisation Working Group in the German Association of Lawyers (www.arge-insolvenzrecht.de)
- German Association of Insolvency Lawyers (“VID”) (www.vid.de)
- INSOL Europe (www.insol-europe.org)
- Legal and taxation committee of the Chamber of Trade and Commerce for Central Franconia in Nuremberg
- Worked in the Reorganisation and Insolvency Working Group of the Central Franconian Legal Society in Nuremberg
- Nuremberg-Fürth Society of Lawyers
Publications
- Beck/Depré/Ampferl “Insolvency Practice” 4th edition 2023, publisher: Franz Vahlen GmbH Munich, co-publisher and author: topic: sec. 2 reasons for insolvency
- Author in Kübler/Bork/Prütting (editor), HRI II-Handbook of restructuring in insolvency | Self administration and insolvency plan, Cologne 2023, 4rd edition, subject: creditors’ committee
- Determining illiquidity in practice, NZI 2018, p. 191 et seq.
- Commentary on Cranshaw/Paulus/Michel (publisher), Bank commentary on Insolvency Law, Finance Colloquium Heidelberg, 3rd Edition 2016, Sec. 80 – 91 InsO
- Contribution to FS Beck, 2016 publisher C. H. Beck, „Questions regarding enrichment upon false payments in insolvency”.
- Responsibilities of the creditors‘ committee regarding the verification of monetary transactions and monetary stock, ZIP 2015, p. 553 ff
- Insolvency of the Builder, ZWE – Magazine for the Law on Residential Accommodation, part 1: issue 6, page 214 ff., part 2: issue 7/8, page 268 ff., part 3: issue 9, page 327 ff.
- Insolvency Administrator’s Rights of Disposal in the Absence of Mortgaged Receivables, commentary on the Federal Supreme Court’s judgement of 7.4.2005, NZI 2005, page 385 ff.
- The “strong” preliminary insolvency administrator in a company’s insolvency (RWS Verlag, Contributions to Insolvency Law no. 26, Cologne 2002)
Industry Sector Expertise
Insolvency administration, collateral law, restructuring and reorganising companies as part of insolvency proceedings, continuation of business operations, insolvency protection proceedings, special insolvency administration.
