Düsseldorf office

Königsallee 20 
40212 Düsseldorf
Germany
Telephone: +49-211-86602-0 
Telefax: +49-211-86602-20 

How to find us

Personal information

  • Born in: 1953

  • Law studies: Bochum University

  • Doctorate: 1985 Osnabrück University

Career

  • Academic research assistant at the Institute for Private International Law and Comparative Law (Prof. Dr. Christian von Bar) at Osnabrück University

  • Admission as a lawyer 1987; lawyer in a well-known law firm at Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court

  • Head of division in the central legal department of Klöckner-Werke AG in Duisburg and lawyer in Düsseldorf

  • Since 1998 a partner in the SIMON und PARTNER professional partnership

Main practice areas

  • Contract and business law

  • Commercial and corporate law

  • Consultancy work for small and medium-sized enterprises, including members of groups, in the capital goods industry (mechanical engineering, instrument design and construction, systems and plant engineering), for the synthetics manufacturing and processing industry, for producers of medical devices and for housing industry / facility management enterprises.

Memberships

  • Deutsche Anwalts- und Steuerberatervereinigung für die mittelständische Wirtschaft (DASV) e.V. (German Lawyers and Tax Advisers Association for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses) (www.mittelstands-anwaelte.de)

  • Verband für den Mittelstand in Deutschland e.V. (German Association for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises) (www.taxlegis.de)

  • Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Vereinigung Düsseldorf e. V. (Düsseldorf Jurisprudence and Political Science Association)

Languages

  • English

Publications / Lecturing and speaking (selection)

  • Lecturer at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences for the LL.M. in Business Law (a course combining distance and on-site learning)

  • Die Haftung der Unternehmensleitung für fehlerhaftes Rechtsmanagement, in: mittelstandsdepesche des DASV 07/2009

  • Neues Gesetz zur Angemessenheit der Vorstandsvergütung:Ausstrahlung auch auf GmbH’s?, in: mittelstandsdepesche des DASV 08/2009

  • So richten Sie ein Risikoüberwachungssystem ein, in: ChannelPartner 09/2009

  • Praxis der Hauptversammlung der AG (Lecture Frankfurt am Main 1994)

  • Vertragsgestaltung und Vertragsmanagement für Unternehmer (Lecture Freiburg and Bremen 2005)

  • Risiko- und Claimmanagement (Lecture Freiburg 2007)

Board memberships

  • Chairman of the advisory board of WestFonds 1 GmbH & Co. KG