Joachim Exner

Practice Areas

Joachim Exner is a lawyer specialising in insolvency and restructuring law and has worked (almost) exclusively as an insolvency administrator, trustee and self-administrator (CIO/CRO) since 1999. He is appointed by a large number of insolvency courts in southern Germany, has also been increasingly active nationwide in recent years and is recognised as an expert in the administration of internationally active production companies, particularly in the mechanical engineering, plant construction and automotive supply industries. Joachim Exner specialises in managing complex insolvency proceedings with the aim of preserving companies and jobs and has extensive experience, including in supporting well-known ESUG proceedings in various functions.

Mr Exner is managing partner of the law firm Dr Beck & Partner GbR, which is one of the leading law firms in the field of insolvency administration in Germany with 8 insolvency administrators and around 170 employees at 8 locations in Bavaria.

Career

Born in 1965, married.

Studied law at the University of Erlangen / Nuremberg. Legal clerkship at the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court.

Lawyer since 1996; since 1999 (almost) exclusively active as insolvency administrator.

Appointed as insolvency administrator by the insolvency courts of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Saxony and Thuringia.

Specialized in handling complex insolvency proceedings with the aim of preserving companies and jobs.

Professional Memberships

- Member of Gravenbrucher Kreis (Association of leading insolvency administrators and restructuring experts in Germany) (InsOExcellence certificate).

- Member of VID - Association of Insolvency Administrators Germany e.V.

- Member of TMA Deutschland e.V. Society for Restructuring

- Member of the "Working Group Reorganization, Restructuring and Insolvency" of the Juristische Gesellschaft Mittelfranken zu Nürnberg e.V.

- Member of the "Working Group Insolvency Law and Reorganization in the German Bar Association

- Member of the Association for the Promotion of the Institute for European and International Insolvency Law e.V.

Publications

- Co-author in Beck/Depré (eds.), Praxis der Insolvenz, 3rd edition 2017, Verlag Franz Vahlen GmbH Munich, subject: § 16 Revocatory Action; § 43 Insolvency plan; § 44 The self-administration.

- Co-author in Theiselmann (ed.), Practical Handbook of Restructuring Law, 3rd edition 2017.

- Co-editor of Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Siegfried Beck, publisher C. H. Beck Munich, 2016.

- Co-editor of FS Beck, publisher C. H. Beck Munich, 2016.

- Co-author in Ebke / Seagon / Blatz (eds.), Corporate Restructuring and Corporate Insolvency, Baden-Baden 2015, case study Loewe - from out-of-court to judicial restructuring.

- Co-author in Evertz / Krystek (eds.), Successfully Restructuring and Reorganizing Companies, Stuttgart 2014, Topic: New Insolvency Law. The protective shield proceedings in practice

- Co-author Beck / Depré (eds.), Practice of Insolvency, Munich 2010, Revocatory Action and Insolvency Plan.

Languages Spoken

- German

- English

Industry Sector Expertise

Insolvency administration, business and legal reorganization and restructuring of insolvent companies, continuation of operations in insolvency, preparation of insolvency plans, international insolvency law.

Work Highlights

His prominent proceedings include the Eisenmann Group, BOA Group, Neumayer Tekfor Group and the television manufacturers Loewe and Metz.