Education:
- University of Kiel, Legal Trainee in New York, Hamburg and Schleswig
Practice:
York Zieren advises clients entering new markets or new business areas (including joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions) as well as on business operations matters.
York Zieren also advises in conflict and crisis situations (insolvencies, restructuring). His clients are stakeholders of any kind such as shareholders, managing directors, creditors and debtors. He represents clients before both state and arbitration courts.
JUVE Handbook on Business Law Firms 2017|2018 about York Zieren: „very prudent advise, highly skilled and target-orientated, (competitor)”
Track Record Excerpts:
- Enforcement of claims under insolvency law in Switzerland
- Regular advise of stakeholders in insolvency proceedings
- Restructuring consultancy for a German consumer goods company
- Sale of used software-licenses as a result of insolvency (Netherlands and Germany)
- Carve-out (demerger) of business units (recycling industry)
- Negotiations for a Chinese enterprise concerning damages incurred through a violation of an exclusive distribution agreement
- Enforcement of various international arbitral awards (Turkey, Middle East, Panama)
- Contentious construction project in the Middle East (brick and tile factory construction)
- Representation of a foreign client in connection with the request of the Argentine Republic towards the Federal Republic of Germany to provide judicial assistance (white-collar crime)
- Enforcement of claims against a former manager of an Estonian trading company (also in the area of white-collar criminal law)
- Defense of Middle Eastern companies managing directors in connection with alleged fraud in international transactions (white-collar criminal law)