Practice Experience
Mr. Habighorst’s principal areas of practice are corporate law, mergers & acquisitions and tax law.  He has extensive experience in structuring, restructuring and financing enterprises of all legal forms, in particular in giving advice to groups of companies.  He counsels companies, partnerships, shareholders and corporate bodies (managing directors, management and supervisory boards).  Succession planning and advising  family shareholders are other important areas of his practice.  He also handles litigation in all areas of law mentioned.

Mr. Habighorst also has extensive experience in establishing and advising nonprofit organizations such as foundations, associations and GmbHs. His clients include nonprofit organizations established by companies and art collections.  Tax advice plays an important role in this context.  He is a board member and administrative member of various foundations.

Prior to joining White & Case, Mr. Habighorst served as a lecturer at the Institute for German and European Corporate and Business Law of the University of Heidelberg.

Bars and Courts
Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main, 2002
Certified Tax Lawyer, 2001
Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main, 1994

Education
Universities of Bielefeld and Heidelberg
Dr. jur., University of Heidelberg, 2006

Professional Associations
German Bar Association, admitted 1994
Frankfurter Juristische Gesellschaft (Frankfurt Legal Society)

Publications
A review of the book “Stiftung und Aufsicht: Dogmatik-Stiftungspraxis – Reformbestrebungen” by Bernd Andrick and Joachim Suerbaum, Neue Juristische Wochenschrift, April 2002
“Reformen im Stiftungsrecht – Modernisierung oder Stillstand?” (Reforms in Foundation Law – Modernization or Status Quo?”), Kanzleien in Deutschland, Report für Wrtschaftskanzleien, November/December 2001
“Taxation of Foundations,” Foundations in Europe – Society, Management and Law, Bertelsmann Foundation and Charities Aid Foundation (edt.), London 2000
“Anmerkung zu BGH, Beschluß vom 12. Januar 1998” (“Comment to the German Federal Supreme Court Decree of January 12, 1998”), WuB 1998
“Besteuerung steuerbegünstigter Stiftungen” (“Taxation of Tax-Privileged Foundations”), Bertelsmann-Stiftung (edt.), Wiesbaden 1998
“Anmerkung zu BGH, Urteil vom 02. Juni 1997” (“Comment to the German Federal Supreme Court Decision of June 2, 1997”), WUB 1997
“Anmerkung zu Landgericht Erfurt, Urteil vom 11. Januar 1995” (“Comment to Regional Court of Erfurt Decision of January 11, 1995”), ZBR, vol. 136, 1995
“Staatsbank-Kredite und Eigenkapitalersatz” (“Government Bank Credit and Capital Funds Restitution”), ZIP 1992
“Treuhandanstalt und Konzernrecht in der Diskussion” (“Discussion of Trust Institutions and Industrial Concern Law”), ZGR 1992
“Gewerbliche Staatsbank-Kredite und die Behandlung nach dem DDR-Beitritt” (“Commercial National Bank Credit and Its Treatment After Unification with East Germany”), ZIP 1992
“Fiskus fördert Mäzene mit Steuervorteilen” (“The Treasury Encourages Patrons With Tax Advantages”), MusikWoche, 45/1997, S. 24 f.
“DDR-Altkredite als Gegenstand richterlicher Rechtsfortbildung” (DDR Old Credit As an Object of Judicial Legal Improvement”), ZIP 1993

Languages
German, English

Citizenship
Germany