Alexander L. Dorf

German Attorney at Law since 2012
Junior Partner

  +49 69 95508-226
  dorf@schiedermair.com
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Languages: German, English

  • Litigation and Arbitration
  • Commercial and Corporate Law
  • Shareholder Disputes
  • Joint Ventures

Alexander litigates before German courts as well as before national and international arbitration tribunals. He focuses on shareholder disputes. Within the scope of his litigation practice, Alexander compiles and analyzes facts and, where appropriate, he cooperates with third parties, such as accounting firms, private investigators, etc.  Alexander develops a goal-oriented litigation strategy. Subsequently, he enforces his clients’ rights. His expertise includes aspects related to litigation, including reputation management, litigation PR, etc.

Alexander also accompanies corporations, their corporate bodies, and shareholders, for example, at shareholders’ meetings regarding (potential) disputes over deficiencies in decision-making, withdrawals and disputes among shareholders, and enforcing shareholders’ rights. He also handles liability issues and questions concerning a corporation’s articles of incorporation.

Alexander additionally provides ongoing corporate housekeeping and external legal department services to various German and non-German clients, as well as ongoing advice to managing directors in management and liability matters. He accompanies corporate clients from the preparatory phase of corporate transactions to legal due diligence and post-merger integration. He has developed a special expertise in issues concerning company valuations.

Alexander’s range of advice covers all areas of commercial and corporate law, as well as related areas of business law (e.g. labor and employment law and insolvency law). His litigation experience, and his profound knowledge of markets and business practices, enables him also to prepare and negotiate contracts in a forward-looking and efficient manner.

  • Defense counsel on behalf of affiliated corporations regarding a purchase price adjustment claim pursuant to an asset deal involving clinics and rehabilitation residences
  • Enforcement of participation rights and payment demands of the shareholder-managing director of a company to be formed based on a letter of intent
  • Defense of the managing director of an insolvent value-added logistics company against personal claims arising from failing to file for insolvency in a timely manner
  • Complex dispute between two persons in the hospital sector who were affiliated via various companies
  • Enforcement of remuneration claims of the managing director of a plant-engineering company in the area of conflict between two shareholder groups
  • Advise and represent a majority shareholder in various proceedings in the context of a complex shareholder dispute in the area of a leisure, wellness, and spa facilities
  • Advise and represent a shareholder-managing director in a dispute of an auditor and litigate against additional purchase price claims
  • Advise and represent a minority shareholder in litigation of a limited liability company of architects
  • Advise and represent two Swiss trade representative GmbH’s against the subsidiary of a German publicly-held entity in the area of non-stock market trading activities
  • Advise and represent several companies of an energy supply group in various corporate law matters, in particular their joint venture holdings
  • Advise and represent a pharmaceutical company and the subsidiary of a US/UK group in all civil law matters in connection with industrial espionage
  • Advise and represent a private equity firm in complex disputes with shareholders and managing directors of a portfolio business
  • Advise a patent law firm and implement a corporate restructuring
  • Ongoing advice and representation of the subsidiary of a US company in the audiovisual conference/collaboration technology sector
  • Advise and represent a start-up company against a US corporation in various proceedings concerning allegations of plagiarism (3D scanners and software)
  • Represent the insolvency administrator in the enforcement of claims against former members of the management board and supervisory board of a former listed investment company
  • Lecturing and speaking activities as well as written contributions in his primary areas of practice
  • Germany Chapter of “Attachment of Assets”, edited by Lawrence W. Newman, published by Juris Publishing (to be published in October, 2017), co-author with Jörg Rehder (Schiedermair)

Alexander has been a German Attorney at Law since 2012 and a Junior Partner at SCHIEDERMAIR since 2017. He specializes in business law and litigation.

Prior to his legal practice, Alexander completed his legal clerkship at the Regional Court of Frankfurt from 2010 to 2011 with a theoretical and practical focus on commercial and corporate law as well as labor and employment law.

During his legal education, Alexander initially worked as a student trainee and as a Research Assistant at a national German law firm in Frankfurt. He sharpened his entrepreneurial perspective in the Legal Departments of Deutsche Bahn AG, Dresdner Bank AG and as a consultant in the group of Deutsche Lufthansa AG.

Alexander studied law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and also lived in Washington D.C. for three years.