Lucas Flöther

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Lucas Flöther (born January 15, 1974 in Leipzig ) is a German lawyer , insolvency administrator and restructuring expert. He is the spokesman for the Gravenbrucher Kreis , an association of insolvency administrators in Germany.

Life

Flöther studied law from 1992 to 1997 at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . In 1999 he was admitted to the Munich bar. A year later, he did his doctorate at the University of Halle. He has been a specialist lawyer for insolvency law since 2005 .

Since 2001, he has been teaching enforcement and insolvency law and civil procedure law at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg every semester. In 2012 he was appointed honorary professor for the field of civil law and insolvency law.

Flöther is married and has two children, he is at home in Halle (Saale) .

Flöther is a partner in the law firm Flöther & Wissing, which currently has twelve locations in Germany. The law firm specializes in insolvency administration as well as corporate reorganization and restructuring. Since 1999 he has been appointed as insolvency administrator by various courts and as administrator in self- administration proceedings . At the age of 25, he was the youngest corporate insolvency administrator in Germany.

Bankruptcy proceedings

On August 15, 2017, Flöther was appointed provisional administrator of Air Berlin by the Charlottenburg District Court . On December 14, 2017, he was appointed preliminary insolvency administrator for NIKI Luftfahrt GmbH . Other well-known insolvency proceedings from Flöther are the fashion company Basler , the Unister group, the bicycle manufacturer MIFA , the retail company Mäc-Geiz and the housing association Leipzig-West. In September 2019, Flöther was appointed provisional administrator of the insolvent Condor airline and the Burgenlandkreis Clinic.

Functions

Flöther has been the spokesman for the Gravenbrucher Kreis, the association of leading German insolvency administrators, since 2015. Furthermore, he has been chairman of the insolvency law committee of the Federal Bar Association since 2008 . He is also a member of the Association of Civil Procedure Teachers.

From 2011 to 2015 Flöther was a board member of the Association of Insolvency Administrators Germany eV (VID) . The focus of his work was securing the independence of insolvency administrators and further improving the quality of the insolvency administration. In addition, he was a member of the panel of experts set up by the Federal Ministry of Justice to develop a draft law on corporate insolvency law.

Publications (selection)

  • Flöther: Handbook on Group Insolvency Law , Verlag CH Beck, Munich, 2015.
  • Effects of domestic insolvency proceedings on arbitration proceedings and arbitration agreements , diss., Carl Heymanns Verlag, Cologne, Berlin, Bonn, Munich, 2000.
  • Flöther / Smid / Wehdeking: Self-administration in insolvency , Verlag CH Beck, Munich, 2005.
  • MaInsO - Minimum Requirements for Insolvency Processing , in: Best Practice Standard for Insolvency Administrators, Creditors and Debtors for Efficient and Successful Processing, IQS - Institute for Quality and Standard in Insolvency Processing (publisher), 2010.
  • Arrangement and cancellation of self-administration, liability in the context of self-administration , in: Kübler (Ed.), HRI - Handbook Restructuring in Insolvency, RWS-Verlag, Cologne, 2012.
  • Sixth part of the insolvency regulation - insolvency plan (§§ 217 ff. InsO) , in: Blersch, Goetsch, Haas (ed.), Berlin commentary on insolvency law, Rudolf Haufe Verlag.
  • Sections 165 - 173 InsO in: Kübler / Prütting / Bork (Ed.), Commentary on the Insolvency Regulation, RWS-Verlag.
  • Sections 103 ff. InsO and Art. 13-26 EuInsVO , in: Ahrens / Gehrlein / Ringstmeier (ed.), Specialist lawyer commentary on insolvency law, Verlag Luchterhand, Cologne, 2012.
  • The current reform of insolvency law by the ESUG - more appearance than reality? , ZIP 2012, p. 1833 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg: Number 146/2012 of August 28, 2012. Accessed on February 13, 2014 .
  2. ^ Portrait of the insolvency administrator Lucas Flöther from Halle [1] . Leipziger Volkszeitung from February 1, 2018. Accessed February 15, 2018.
  3. ^ Franziska Höhnl (dpa): Unister, Mifa, Air Berlin - the master of bankruptcies. Portrait of the insolvency administrator Lucas Flöther from Halle. Leipziger Volkszeitung , online edition. Retrieved February 5, 2018 .
  4. ^ Jens Schneider: Profile Lucas Flöther . Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 17, 2017. Accessed August 20, 2017.
  5. ↑ Top of the class from Halle. Frankfurter Rundschau from August 17, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2017.
  6. Preliminary insolvency administrator for the assets of NIKI Luftfahrt GmbH appointed press release of the Charlottenburg District Court of December 14, 2017. Accessed on January 12, 2018.
  7. The man who fights for Air Berlin and Niki Rheinische Post from January 12, 2017. Accessed on January 12, 2018.
  8. Unister bankruptcy: Rockaway Capital buys Unister's travel portals. In: wiwo.de. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Broke again: Flöther takes over again at Mifa. In: juve.de. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .
  10. Ailing discounter survived . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on January 17, 2017]).
  11. https://www.juve.de/nachrichten/namenundnachrichten/2019/09/nach-air-berlin-floether-uebernnahm-auch-condor-insolvenz
  12. https://www.juve.de/nachrichten/namenundnachrichten/2019/09/krankenhausinsolvenz-eckert-und-floether-kurieren-klinikum-burgenlandkreis
  13. Gravenbruch Circle. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
  14. Civil procedure law teacher. Retrieved February 13, 2014.
  15. Insolvency administrator: Niering takes over from Beck at the VID head. In: juve.de. June 7, 2011, accessed August 21, 2017 .