White & Case LLP - Lawyers - Dr. Sven-Holger Undritz

Practice Experience

Sven-Holger Undritz concentrates in insolvency law. He has acted as insolvency administrator appointed by the Local Court of Hamburg since 1998, the Local Court of Norderstedt since 2000, and by the Local Court of Flensburg since 2006.

Within the framework of his activity as administrator, Mr. Undritz has already assisted 300 companies during insolvency, including inter alia PopNet Internet AG, a company listed on "Neuer Markt", the ship accessory supplier Triton Format GmbH and Heinrich Klingenberg AG which enjoys a long tradition. Most recently, he was the leading insolvency administrator in Germany's largest insolvency case in 2007 involving Europe's largest international furniture company, the Schieder-Group. Mr. Undritz succeeded in reorganizing many companies during insolvency proceedings and transferring them to a new legal entity.

He has acquired substantial know-how in the area of corporate reorganization law, which is particularly due to his significant experience as insolvency administrator. He advises clients in the preliminary stages of insolvency and also acts for German and multinational companies in connection with the acquisition of companies out of insolvency.

Furthermore, Mr. Undritz has assisted in various Chapter 11 proceedings as well as in many German insolvency plan proceedings, which are similar to those provided by the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. He gives lectures on insolvency law both at conferences and for clients at regular intervals.

Bars and Courts
Rechtsanwalt, 1995

Education
MBA, Academy of Business and Administration of Hamburg, 1986
Dr. jur., Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, 1993

Professional Associations and Memberships
Hamburg Bar Association
Working Group for Insolvency Law of the German Bar Association
Association of Insolvency Administrators in Germany
North German Insolvency Forum
Association for Comparative Law
International Bar Association
International Exchange of Experience on Insolvency law (IEER)
Gravenbrucher Circle

Publications
Co-author, "Duties of disclosure according to the German Act on Electronic Commercial Registers and Cooperative Society Registers and the Register of Companies (EHUG): problems of implementation during insolvency (Offenlegungspflichten nach dem EHUG: Anwendungsprobleme in der Insolvenz)", DZWIR, Issue 9, Pages 353-358, 2008 (with Magdalena Zak and Hiemke Vogel)
Co-author, "Commentary on §§ 156-173 InsO (Kommentierung zu §§ 156-173 InsO)", Berliner Kommentar zur Insolvenzordnung. Ed. Jürgen Blersch, Hans-Wilhelm Goetsch and Ulrich Haas. Freiburg, Loose Leaf System, Status: 2008 (with Sylvia Fiebig)
"§ 4 The law relating to substitute equity capital (§ 4 Eigenkapitalersatzrecht)" and "§ 15 Company acquisition during insolvency (§ 15 Unternehmenskauf in der Insolvenz)", Anwaltshandbuch Insolvenzrecht. Ed. Hans P. Runkel. 2nd ed., Cologne, Pages 258-429 and Pages 1640-1732, 2008
"Continuation of Business in German Preliminary Insolvency Proceedings – (Making a Square Peg fit into a Round Hole?)
(Betriebsfortführung im Eröffnungsverfahren – Die Quadratur des Kreises?)", NZI, Pages 65-72, 2007
"Commentary on International Insolvency Law (§§ 335 ff. InsO, Art. 102 EGInsO und EuInsVO) (Kommentierung zum internationalen Insolvenzrecht)", Hamburger Kommentar zum Insolvenzrecht. Ed. Andreas Schmidt. 2nd ed., Recklinghausen, 2007
Undritz, Sven-Holger et al.: Advice on Corporate Reorganization (Sanierungsberatung). Cologne, 2005
Co-author, "The Reform of the French Insolvency Law Compared to the German Insolvency Code (Die Reform des französischen Insolvenzrechts im Rechtsvergleich zur InsO)", NZI, Page 198 et seq., 2005 (with Reinhard Dammann)
Co-author, "Corporate reorganization out of insolvency (Sanierung aus der Insolvenz)", Unternehmensrestrukturierung. Ed. Volker Brühl and Burkhard Göpfer. Stuttgart, Pages 327-364, 2004 (with Sven-Erik Gless)
"The ‘Weak' Interim Liquidator as Corporate Reorganization Brake? (Der vorläufige „schwache" Insolvenzverwalter als Sanierungsbremse?)", NZI, Page 136 et seq., 2003
Co-author, "Due diligence in acquisitions out of insolvency (Due Diligence beim Unternehmenskauf aus der Insolvenz )", MDR, Page 254 et seqq., 2003 (with Sylvia Fiebig)

Languages
German
English
French

Citizenship
Germany