Michael Bormann

Practice Areas

Michael Bormann primarily advises on corporate transactions, joint ventures and reorganizations. He additionally provides advice on general corporate law issues, in particular, corporate governance and capital raising and capital maintenance issues. He has great expertise in the energy & infrastructure sector. Beyond that, he advises clients in the automotive & industrial sectors, and the food & beverages business. His clients include both financial investors as well strategic clients.

Career

After successfully completing his training to become an industrial business management assistant (Industriekaufmann) at a medium-sized construction company, Michael Bormann studied law at the University of Göttingen (Germany) from 1992 to 1998 and, in 2001, obtained his doctorate in law from the University of Heidelberg (Germany).

Before starting his legal training, Michael Bormann worked for BCG for three months, in 1999/2000; in this period of time he advised a predecessor company of E.ON on its entry to the gas market. Whilst carrying out his legal training at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Hamburg (Germany), he also worked as a research assistant for a well-known insolvency administrator. His legal training included working for international law firms in Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and New York (USA).

Michael Bormann was admitted to the German Bar in 2002. From 2002 to 2006, he worked in the Düsseldorf office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in the area of Corporate/M&A. In 2006, he moved to Simmons & Simmons, where he was made partner in 2008 and was, from 2012 up until he moved to Luther, head of the German practice group Corporate & Commercial.

In addition to his client work, he also regularly publishes articles on corporate law, insolvency law and accounting law issues. He inter alia commented on the provisions relating to preferred shares in Spindler/Stilz (commentary on the German Stock Corporation Act), on the provisions relating to auditing and approving annual financial statements in Wachter (commentary on the German Stock Corporation Act) and on the provisions relating to auditing financial statements in Münchener Kommentar zum Bilanzrecht (commentary on accounting law).