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Dr Hans Diekmann

Partner

Duesseldorf

Diekmann Hans
Dr Hans Diekmann

Partner

Duesseldorf

Hans Diekmann joined Allen & Overy LLP in May 2013. He primarily advises on corporate and capital markets law as well as on M&A transactions including public takeovers.

German DAX and MDAX companies, financial institutions and large listed companies count among his regular client base. In addition to his M&A work Hans Diekmann advises his clients inter alia on annual shareholders' meetings, capital market law (including investigations by Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht), initial public offerings, corporate reorganisations as well as on general corporate law advice and on financing issues. He also regularly advises executives and board members on matters relating to corporate compliance. JUVE ranks him as one of Germany’s 15 leading senior corporate Partners.

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Office

Duesseldorf

Dreischeibenhaus 1
40211 Duesseldorf

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Qualifications

Professional

Admitted as German Rechtsanwalt, 1993

Academic

Second German Law Degree, Düsseldorf, 1992

Dr iur, University of Münster/Westphalia, Germany, 1990

First German Law Degree, Hamm/Westphalia, 1988

Other noteworthy experience

Advising:

  • A global financial services provider on a bancassurance agreement with UniCredit for the distribution of life and non-life insurance products for individuals and small-businesses in a number of Eastern European countries.
  • Several listed companies (amongst them, Axel Springer SE, alstria office REIT-AG, Uniper SE, IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG, Scout24, ELMOS Semiconductor AG) on their annual general meetings and on various corporate and capital markets law matters.
  • Several companies (amongst them, E.ON AG, Fresenius AG, BASF AG, Deichmann, Dürr Dental AG) on the conversion of their legal form into an SE.
  • RAG-Stiftung on several investments.

 

 

Published work

  • Diekmann, “Kommentierung des Geschäftsführers, des Aufsichtsrats und sonstiger Organe”, in: Münchener Handbuch des Gesellschaftsrechts, Band 3: Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, 6. Aufl. (erscheint demnächst), C.H.BECK
  • Diekmann, “SE-VO Art. 4 – 8 und SE-VO Art. 15, 16”, in: Habersack/Drinhausen, SE-Recht, 3. Aufl. 2022, C.H.BECK
  • Diekmann, “Kommentierung der §§ 60 – 77 zur Verschmelzung unter Beteiligung von Aktiengesellschaften sowie der §§ 141 – 146 zur Spaltung unter Beteiligung von Aktiengesellschaften und Kommanditgesellschaften auf Aktien”, in: Semler/Stengel/Leonard, Umwandlungsgesetz, 5. Aufl. 2021, C.H.BECK
  • Diekmann, “Entstehung einer Europäischen Aktiengesellschaft (Societas Europaea, SE) durch Verschmelzung zur Aufnahme” (Ziffern 5.01 und 5.02), in: Happ/Bednarz, Umwandlungsrecht, 2. Aufl. 2021, Heymanns Verlag GmbH
  • Diekmann, “Übernahmevertrag bei Anleiheemissionen”, in: Habersack/Mülbert/Schlitt, Unternehmensfinanzierung am Kapitalmarkt, 4. Aufl. 2019, Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt 
  • Diekmann, “Kommentierung zu §§ 12, 25 und 26”, in: Paschos/Fleischer, Handbuch Übernahmerecht nach dem WpÜG, 1. Aufl. 2017, C.H.BECK
  • Diekmann, “Kommentierung der §§ 20-26, 29, 30, 32, 34”, in: Baums/Thoma/Verse, Kommentar zum WpÜG