Insolvency Law:
Experience & Strategic law advice

Dammann

A law firm dedicated to the restructuring of companies in difficulty

30 years of experience in complex international restructuring and litigation cases

A doctrinal position that counts through the publication of reference publications and international colloquia

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Trilingual and with experience as a partner at White & Case and Clifford Chance, Reinhard Dammann provides strategic advice in complex cases.

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INSOL-Europe-2020-Annual-Online Conference Brochure

13 October 2020

Reinhard DAMMANN leads the INSOL Europe 2020 annual conference

Le last number of Autumn 2020 of the journal eurofenix...

paris-centre-des-restructurations-financières

30 September 2020

Les Echos, Turning Paris into the center of financial restructuring in Europe

This essay by Reinhard Dammann in Les Echos suggests seizing...

Reinhard Dammann lawyer conference Copenhague

25 August 2020

Annual conference of INSOL EUROPE in Copenhagen (2020)

Reinhard Dammann participated in a panel discussion on the transposition...

INSOL-Europe-2020-Annual-Online Conference Brochure

13 October 2020

Reinhard DAMMANN leads the INSOL Europe 2020 annual conference

Le last number of Autumn 2020 of the journal eurofenix...

paris-centre-des-restructurations-financières

30 September 2020

Les Echos, Turning Paris into the center of financial restructuring in Europe

This essay by Reinhard Dammann in Les Echos suggests seizing...

Reinhard Dammann lawyer conference Copenhague

25 August 2020

Annual conference of INSOL EUROPE in Copenhagen (2020)

Reinhard Dammann participated in a panel discussion on the transposition...

Reinhard Dammann Clifford chance French restructuring and insolvency law

25 August 2020

Presentation of the French conciliation law in South Korea (2019)

Invited by the South Korean government, Reinhard Dammann presented the...

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Reinhard Dammann

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Dammann

Area of expertise

International Organisations

Publications & Books

Education

Admitted to the Paris Bar since 1990, Reinhard Dammann holds a Master’s degree and a DESS in business law and is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques d’Aix-Marseille III.

In 1990, he obtained a doctorate in German civil law from the prestigious Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, after having worked with the eminent Professor Hans-Jürgen Sonnenberger at the Institute of Comparative and Private International Law.

Languages

Reinhard Dammann is trilingual in French, English and German.

Teaching

For the past 15 years, Reinhard Dammann has been an affiliate professor at the School of Law of Sciences Po Paris and lecturer at the Sorbonne Law School.

He is also member of the Board of Directors of Paris V Descartes.

Area of expertise

His expertise is recognized in the field of insolvency law, national and cross-border restructuring.

He also advises international group of companies in international litigation and ICC arbitration cases.

At the same time, Reinhard Dammann is a specialist in trust law. At the request of the French Ministry of Finance, he drafted the first trust agreement in 2008, then advised the government on trust reforms.

International Organisations

Reinhard Dammann is a member of the Committee of Experts to the European Commission for the new “Insolvency” Regulation of May 20, 2015 and the “Insolvency and Restructuring” Directive of June 20, 2019, and actively participated in the drafting of these founding instruments.

He is advising the World Bank on insolvency reforms in Egypt, Ethiopia, Mongolia and Lebanon.

He is a member of the expert committee at the Supreme Court of Singapore for the development of best practices in cross-border proceedings.

Reinhard Dammannn is a member of numerous associations and organisations: International Insolvency Institute (III), Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, INSOL Europe, Association pour le Retournement des Entreprises (ARE), Comité Français de Droit International Privé, Conseil Scientifique de la Fondation pour le Droit Continental, Comité Scientifique du Bulletin Joly Entreprises en Difficulté and Comité du Bulletin Joly Sociétés.

Publications & Books

Reinhard Dammann is the author of more than 200 articles and publications in France, Germany and England.

Together with Professor Hans-Jürgen Sonnenberger, he has written a German-language reference manual on French commercial law (2008).

He participated in the drafting of two commentaries on European Insolvency Regulation, published in Berlin in 2007 and in Oxford in 2016. Also, in 2018, he published “Le droit de l’insolvabilité internationale” (Lextenso) and he is preparing with Professor Christoph Paulus a commentary on the new Restructuring Directive.

He publishes in the Commentary of Munich the report on French Insolvency Law (paper and on-line version, 2020).

Reinhard Dammann founded the law firm DAMMANN AVOCAT at 171 Avenue Victor Hugo in Paris, after having headed the restructuring department of the law firm Clifford Chance for 12 years.

Previously, he was a partner at White & Case, which he joined in 1989.