White & Case LLP - Lawyers - Christian Wirth

Practice Experience

Christian Wirth's main areas of practice are insurance law, construction law, and banking law.

In the area of insurance law, which includes all kinds of indemnity insurance and personal insurance, Mr. Wirth advises national and international clients, including leading insurers and investors, on all questions in connection with insurance contracts.

In the field of private construction law, Mr. Wirth renders advice to his clients during all stages of a building project. This comprises the drawing up and negotiating of contracts through the turnkey completion, including accounting and remedying defects. His clients are, in particular, institutional investors and construction firms. Mr. Wirth is involved in several major construction projects in the Berlin government quarter and in the development and construction of sports facilities.

Mr. Wirth advises banks and enterprises with regard to the conclusion of credit agreements, the providing of security and the handling of credits. Additionally, he represents clients in litigation matters.

Bars and Courts
Certified Lawyer for Bank and Capital Market Law, 2008
Certified Insurance Lawyer, 2006
Rechtsanwalt, 1992

Education
Second State Exam, Higher Regional Court of Berlin, 1992
First State Exam, Free University of Berlin, 1988

Professional Associations and Memberships
Working Group Bank & Capital Market Law of the German Bar Association
Working Group Insurance Law of the German Bar Association
Head of Working Group International Insurance Law/Insurance Supervision Law of the German Bar Association
DIS – German Institution for Arbitration
ARIAS – Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society

Publications
"The outside view: Regulation of duties to provide information in Spain and Germany – an example for insurance law harmonization in practice (Der Blick über die Grenze: Die Regelung der Auflärungsobliegenheiten in Spanien und Deutschland – ein Beispiel für eine praktizierte Harmonisierung des Versicherungsrechts)", Spektrum für Versicherungsrecht, No. 1, Page 12 et seq., 2009
Co-author, "On the structuring of company pension schemes with special focus on questions of insurance and labor law (Zur Strukturierung betrieblicher Altersvorsorge durch Unternehmen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung versicherungs- und arbeitsrechtlicher Fragestellungen)", Spektrum für Versicherungsrecht, No. 3, Page 60 et seq., 2006 (with Nicolaus Pieper)
"Business Interruption Insurance (Betriebsunterbrechungsversicherung)", Euroforum Verlag GmbH, insurance contracts and management in enterprises – management training course, section 9, 2006
Co-author, "Manager liability and insurance in Germany (Managerhaftung und Versicherung in Deutschland)", JUVE Handbuch, Page 244 et seq., 2002/2003 (with Henning Berger)
"The Architect’s Claim for his Fee (Die Honorarklage des Architekten)", Honorar-Handbuch für Architekten und Ingenieure. Ed. Manfred von Bentheim and Karsten Meurer. Berlin, 2002
Co-author, "Possible reclaim of a drawn guarantee at first demand in procedures of producing documentary evidence (Zur Möglichkeit der Rückforderung einer gezogenen Bürgschaft auf erstes Anfordern im Urkundsverfahren)", Bauwirtschaft und Baubetriebe, Reports, No. 1, Page 47 et seq. (with Nils Clemm and Tobias Masing)

Languages
English
German

Citizenship
Germany