Hanno Merkt

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Hanno Merkt (* 1960 ) is a German legal scholar and professor at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg .

academic career

From 1980, Merkt studied law as well as history and Hispanic studies at the universities of Bonn , Mannheim and Santiago de Compostela (Spain). After the first state examination in law, he received his doctorate in 1989 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster under Otto Sandrock with a thesis on investment protection through stabilization clauses. In the same year he obtained a Master of Laws degree from the University of Chicago . After admission to the Attorney-at-Law , he was in New York Cityactive as a lawyer. After passing the second state examination in law, Merkt became a scientific consultant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg (USA department) in 1993 . From 1993 to 2003 he was admitted to the bar in Hamburg. In 2000 he completed his habilitation at the University of Hamburg under Klaus J. Hopt with a study on corporate publicity . After a substitute chair at the University of Regensburg , he was appointed professor at the Bucerius Law School in October 2000 . He turned down offers to the University of Jena (2000) and the University of Münster (2003).

Merkt's students are Jens-Hinrich Binder, Ulrich G. Schroeter and Falk Mylich.

Professional Activities

Since October 2003, Merkt has succeeded Rainer Frank as full professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , where he is director of the Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Department II). Since 2008 he has also been a judge in the second main office at the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court - Freiburg civil senate. Merkt's research focuses on German, European and international commercial , corporate and capital market law , international private law and comparative law as well as the economic analysis of law .

Functions and offices

Since 2008, Merkt has been a member of the Stock Exchange Expert Commission at the Federal Ministry of Finance. Among other things, Merkt was a reviewer for the business law department of the 64th German Legal Conference on the subject of "Is it advisable to re-regulate capital market and stock exchange law in the interests of investor protection and to promote Germany as a financial center?"; He was also a member of the takeover board at the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin); 2009–2011 he was a member of the German Federal Government's Expert Council for the development of exit strategies from crisis-related federal investments in companies in the financial sector (Expert Council for Federal Participations in the Financial Sector) [1]; As an expert, he worked for the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) in the preparation of the government draft for the Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act (WpÜG), in the reform of the EU stock exchange listing prospectus directive, in the preparation of the government draft for the 4th Financial Market Promotion Act and in the hearing on the draft of a law to implement the EU Directive on Markets in Financial Instruments (MiFID) (Financial Market Directive Implementation Act); For the Finance Committee of the German Bundestag he worked as an expert on the Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act (WpÜG) and the Takeover Directive Implementation Act, as well as for the Federal Ministry of Justice on the preliminary draft of an agreement on the law to be applied to certain rights in relation to securities held in collective custody at an intermediate custodian the Hague Conference. Merkt was Dean of Studies (2004–2006) and Dean (2008–2010) at the Law Faculty of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg.

Memberships

Awards

  • Faculty Award of the Law Faculty of the University of Münster for the dissertation, 1990.
  • Award of the habilitation thesis by the Deutsche Aktieninstitut e. V. with the 1st prize for the best scientific work of 1999.
  • Selection of the habilitation thesis as one of four legal titles in 2001.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • US corporate law, 3rd edition, Deutscher Fachverlag, specialist media law and economics, Frankfurt a. M. 2013. ISBN 3-8005-1268-8 .
  • In-house lawyer and German legal privilege in US civil proceedings, German specialist publisher, specialist media law and economics, Frankfurt a. M. 2013. ISBN 978-3-8005-1573-8 .
  • Contributions to the stock exchange and company history, Peter Lang GmbH, European Science Publishing House, Frankfurt a. M. 2001. ISBN 3-631-37284-1 .
  • Corporate disclosure. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001. ISBN 3-16-147437-6 .
  • Defense against the delivery of punitive damages-Klagen, Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft, Heidelberg 1995. ISBN 3-8005-1150-9 .
  • Investment protection through stabilization clauses. Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft, Heidelberg 1990. ISBN 3-8005-1044-8 .

Comments

  • Accounting according to HGB and IFRS, published together with Arno Probst and Christian Fink, 1st edition, Stuttgart 2017.
  • §§ 238-324a, §§ 407-475h HGB, In: Baumbach / Hopt, Handelsgesetzbuch - Commentary, 38th edition, Munich 2018.
  • Sections 11, 13 GmbHG , In: Fleischer / Goette (Ed.), Munich Commentary on the GmbHG, Volume 1, 3rd edition, Munich 2018.
  • Sections 67–75 AktG In: Hopt / Wiedemann (ed.), Large Commentary on the Stock Corporation Act, 5th edition, Berlin, New York, 2018.
  • Section 221 AktG, In: Lutter / Schmidt (Ed.), Commentary on the AktG, 3rd edition, Cologne 2015.

Editorships

proof

  1. ↑ Biographical data. In: jura.uni-freiburg.de. Retrieved January 24, 2016 .
  2. ↑ New Legal Weekly 2001, 3523.

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personal data
SURNAME Notice, Hanno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and professor at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau
DATE OF BIRTH 1960