Christoph Niering

Christoph Niering (born December 16, 1962 in Cologne ) is a German lawyer and insolvency administrator . Niering is also chairman of the professional association of insolvency administrators in Germany (VID eV).

Life and accomplishments

Education and professional life

After finishing school, Niering studied law at the University of Cologne from 1982 to 1987 and at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . After completing his studies, he began a legal traineeship in 1988, which took him to Aachen , London , Speyer and Cologne, among others . Subsequently, Niering received his doctorate in 1991 at the University of Cologne.

After receiving his doctorate , Niering went to the Treuhandanstalt in Leipzig , where he worked, among other things, as the liquidator of various trust companies. Since 1992 Niering has worked as a bankruptcy and insolvency administrator, primarily for the district courts of Aachen , Bonn , Essen , Mönchengladbach and Siegen . In 1993 he moved to a Cologne law firm, initially as a salaried lawyer, and from 1996 to 2012 as a partner of the law firm. In 2004 he founded an insolvency administration GbR, which five years later merged with a law firm of other lawyers and insolvency administrators. In his more than 20 years of activity, Niering has handled around 2,000 insolvency proceedings.

Functions

In 2011 Niering was appointed chairman of the Insolvenzverwalter Deutschlands eV association for four years . V. elected. In May 2015 he was confirmed in this position for another four years at the general meeting of the professional association in Mannheim. His work focuses on ensuring the independence of insolvency administrators and further improving the quality of insolvency administration. In addition, Niering works as an expert for the German Bundestag on issues relating to insolvency law.

Further activities:

• Chairman of the preliminary examination committee for the specialist lawyer for insolvency law for the Cologne Higher Regional Court
• Board of the Working Group for Insolvency Cologne e. V.
• Member of the Working Group for Insolvency Law in the German Bar Association e. V.

Publications

• with Christoph Hillebrand: Ways through the corporate crisis. Deubner Verlag, Cologne 2012 (3rd edition), ISBN 3-886065790 .
• Non performing Ioans. CHBeck, NZI 2008, 146.
• The receivership administrator. Zap Verlag, ZInsO 2008, 790.
• Social claims as a stumbling block in insolvency plan proceedings. CHBeck, NZI 2010, 285.
• Restructuring and bankruptcy in the public sector. , in: Festschrift for Heinz Vallender, (Ed .: Graf-Schlicker / Prütting / Uhlenbruck), RWS Verlag, Cologne 2015.
• The group in insolvency proceedings. , in: Handbook on Group Insolvency Law, (Ed .: Flöther / Kahlert), CH Beck, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NIERING STOCK TÖMP Attorneys at Law. Homepage ( Memento of the original from November 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 28, 2016.  
2. ^ Niering Stock Tömp insolvency administrations. Homepage ( Memento of the original from November 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 21, 2014.  
3. ↑ Homepage VID Accessed on March 21, 2014.
4. ↑ JUVE, an industry specialist medium. Article dated June 7, 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2013.
5. ^ German Association Forum. Article from May 5, 2015. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
6. ^ German Bundestag.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.0 MB). Retrieved November 18, 2013.  
7. ↑ Cologne Chamber of Lawyers. ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 25 kB). Retrieved November 18, 2013.  
8. ↑ RWS publishing house. News from November 27, 2009 ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 21, 2014.  
9. ↑ Program for the 10th German Insolvency Law Day from March 13 to 15, 2013 ( Memento from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved on January 2, 2017.