White & Case LLP - Lawyers - Dr. Axel Pajunk

Practice Experience

Mr. Pajunk advises mainly in the areas of corporate law and mergers and acquisitions with a focus on private equity investments and divestitures. Mr. Pajunk also has experience in the area of capital markets through his work for publicly listed companies.

Mr. Pajunk represents national and international private equity funds as well as enterprises from start-up to publicly listed companies. Mr. Pajunk also advises the shareholders, board members and the management of such firms in all aspects of corporate matters. In the area of mergers and acquisitions and private equity, Mr. Pajunk has been involved in a number of national and international transactions, especially in the IT/software sector.

Mr. Pajunk also advises listed and unlisted companies in the preparation and the conducting of their general meetings, including specific issues of stock corporation law such as the implementation of employee incentive schemes (stock options/warrants) and the buy-back of corporate shares.

Prior to joining White & Case in 2003, Mr. Pajunk was a partner with a leading German law firm (1997-2001) and a British law firm (2001-2003) in Munich, Germany. Mr. Pajunk is also a tax lawyer (FASt).

Bars and Courts
Tax Attorney, 2003
Rechtsanwalt, 1996

Education
Dr. iur. (SJD), University of Frankfurt, magna cum laude, 1997
Second State Exam, State of Hesse, 1996
First State Exam, University of Frankfurt am Main School of Law, 1992

Professional Associations and Memberships
Member of the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA)

Publications
"The disclosure requirement set forth in § 20 of the German Stock Corporation Act applies also to the founding shareholders (Mitteilungspflicht nach § 20 I AktG gilt auch für Gründungsaktionäre)", LMK, 191735, 2006
"More transparent than the EU Transparency Directive? Future disclosure thresholds under discussion (Transparenter als die EU-Transparenzrichtlinie?)", Going Public, No. 2, Page 74, 2006
"Company Shares (Eigene Aktien) and Employee Incentive Schemes (Mitarbeiterbeteiligung)", Münchener Anwaltshandbuch Aktienrecht. Ed. Bernhard Schaub and Matthias Schueppen. Munich, Pages 875-914 and Pages 915-974, 2004
"Civil- and Corporate Law Requirements for the Structuring of Stock Options (Zivil- und gesellschaftsrechtliche Anforderungen an die Ausgestaltung von Stock Options)", Stock Options. Ed. Ann-Kristin Achleitner and Peter Wollmert. 2nd ed., Stuttgart, Pages 85-117, 2002
"Small Corporations allowed to hold its Stockholders' Shares in Custody" ("Kleine Gesellschaften duerfen Aktien ihrer Anleger verwahren"), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 10, 2001, Nr. 262, page 19
"Stock Options", Ann-Kristin Achleitner / Peter Wollmert (editors), 2nd edition 2002, Schaeffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart, chapter: Civil- and Corporate Law Requirements for the Designing of Stock Options ("Zivil- und gesellschaftsrechtliche Anforderungen an die Ausgestaltung von Stock Options") (Co-author)
"Company Shares" ("Eigene Aktien") and "Employee Incentive Schemes" ("Mitarbeiterbeteiligung"); two book chapters in: The Munich Lawyers' Handbook; title: "Stock Corporation Law", Bernhard Schaub / Matthias Schueppen (editors), Publisher: C.H. Beck, Munich (scheduled for publication in early 2004)

Languages
English
French
German

Citizenship
Germany