Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• Afrikaans
• English
• German

Lawyer Overview

Volker Kammel has broad experience in the area of corporate law, with a focus on business restructuring, German and cross-border insolvencies, and investment in distressed entities. His clients include creditors (especially German and international financial institutions), companies in financial difficulties, their management and shareholders, purchasers of businesses (both prior to and after the start of insolvency proceedings), and investors in distressed assets such as nonperforming loans.

Volker has represented financial institutions in such high-profile insolvencies as Kirch Media and Fairchild Dornier. He advised Philipp Holzmann AG in the company's 1999 restructuring and a Euro Stoxx 50 company in the structuring of its 4 billion euro pension scheme in order to secure pensions in the event of financial distress. Most recently he represented a leading global investment firm in several transactions regarding the acquisition of loan portfolios from major German banks.

He is a member of the insolvency and restructuring practice group of the German Bar Association and the Association of Bank Lawyers. He is author of legal publications, including an article on the purchase of insolvent businesses, a number of contributions on insolvency law in legal manuals, and commentaries on judgments of the Federal Supreme Court.

Areas of Practice

• Business Restructuring & Reorganization
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Official Unsecured Creditors' Committees
• Secured Lender Groups
• Bondholder Committees
• Other Significant Creditor Representations
• Out-of-Court Restructurings
• Distressed Mergers & Acquisitions
• Global Restructuring Matters
• Restructuring-Related Lending & Finance

Representative Cases

• Acquisition Financing
• Acquisition of NPL Portfolio
• Debtor Representation
• Debtor Representation
• Distressed Debt Investments
• Distressed Mergers and Acquisitions
• Fairchild Dornier
• Hahn Real Estate Group
• Initial Public Offering
• Insolvency Products
• Issuance of Shares by Priaxon AG
• Kettler GmbH
• Kirch Media
• Offering of Notes by Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank
• Offering of Notes by Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank
• Offering of Notes by Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank
• Offering of Notes by Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank
• Offering of Notes by Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank
• Offering of Notes by Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank
• Offering of Notes by Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank
• Offering of Notes by Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank
• Offering of Notes by Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank
• Offering of Notes by Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank
• Offering of Notes by Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank
• Public Offering by Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank
• RWE Berlinwasser
• Sale of GETRAG Interest
• Secured Credit Facility
• Securitization
• Venture/Peguform

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Bankruptcy Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business & Trade, Business Organizations, Collections & Repossessions, Collections & Repossessions, Commercial Bankruptcy, Commercial Leasing, Consumer Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights, Debt Discharge, Foreclosures, Garnishment, International Law, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Reorganizations, Reorganizations & Restructuring, Securities Law, Workouts

Bar Admissions

• Germany

Education

• U Heidelberg - Germany
• Ruprecht-Karis Unv - Germany
• Baden-Wuerttemberg - Germany

Published Works

• Suppliers’ rights in the insolvency of a German company, In House Lawyer, 2008
• Germany Adopts Its Own Rescue Package for Financial Institutions, 2008
• German Federal Supreme Court Decides on Set-Aside of Global Assignment of Trade Receivables, 2008
• Focus on Europe: Recent Developments Affecting Distressed Asset Investors and Lenders in Germany, 2007
• German Business Restructuring and Reorganization News, 2007
• More Bang for your Euro: How Sellers are Getting More Through Dual Track IPOs/M&A, IFLR, 2006
• Corporate Acquisitions Through Debt-Equity Swaps in Germany, 2006
• Investitionen in notleidende Kredite, chapter in Brühl / Göpfert, Unternehmensrestrukturierung, 2004, 2004
• Focus Abroad: Corporate Insolvency in Germany, 2004
• Grenzüberschreitende Insolvenzen, chapter in Beck / Depré, Handbuch der Insolvenzbewältigung, 2003, 2003
• Software in der Insolvenz, chapter in Kilian / Heussen, Computerrechtshandbuch, 2002, 2002
• Country Report for Germany, Practitioner's Guide to Cross-Border Insolvencies, Arnason/Fletcher, 2001, 2001
• Ausgewählte Probleme des Unternehmenskaufs aus der Insolvenz, Neue Zeitschrift für Insolvenzrecht, 2000, 102, 2000
• Making a fresh start: the new Insolvency Code, coauthor, European Legal Business, March/April 1999, pg. 35, 1999
• National Report for Germany, coauthor, Rescue of Companies, 1998 (AIJA Publication), 1998
• Der Anwendungsbereich des Verbraucherkreditgesetzes unter Beschränkung auf Kreditverträge, dissertation, 1996, 1996
• International Insolvencies Under Current and Future German Law, coauthor, Tolley's Insolvency Law and Practice, 1995, vol. 11, pg. 3, 1995

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60323 Frankfurt am Main
60323 Frankfurt am Main 60323, Federal Republic of Germany

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