Joachim Exner

PARTNER

• Attorney at Law
• Specialist lawyer for insolvency law
• Insolvency administrator / trustee

Biography

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.

Main areas of activity

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

Awards

• IFLR100 Ranking 2021
• JUVE Handbook 2020/2021: "Leading name in insolvency administration", "often recommended"
• Who's Who Legal 2020 / Germany / Restructuring & Insolvency: Thought Leader, National Leader, Global Leader
• The Legal 500: "First-class insolvency administrators, very pragmatic and transparent."
• Chambers and Partners: "the go-to person for automotive restructurings."

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.
  

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.

Lectures Given

• Bavarian Sparkasse Academy
• Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Applied Science “Restructuring manager“

Foreign Languages

• English