Prof. Dr. Francis Limbach
Of Counsel
Office Frankfurt
+49 211 942508-50
francis.limbach@dfa.legal
Prof. Dr Francis Limbach has been admitted to the bar since 2002. He initially worked in the French Desk of an international commercial law firm in Frankfurt and has many years’ experience as a legal expert and adviser in the fields of commercial law, company law, inheritance law and private international law. His clients include German and French companies, law firms and umbrella organisations. He is currently also co-managing director of the German subsidiary of a French group.
Francis Limbach also specialises in advising on French private law and has been appointed as a court-appointed expert in numerous proceedings to prepare expert reports on French law. He is qualified to practise as a lawyer in France.
Francis Limbach is a fully qualified German lawyer and a graduate of a French law degree programme. He was awarded a ‘Docteur en droit’ (Doctor of Law) at a French university and completed his habilitation at a German university. Francis Limbach is also the author of numerous specialist publications with German and French publishers. He is a professor at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and a lecturer in German commercial law at the Université de Strasbourg.
Schwerpunkte
Einblick in Deals und Transactionen von bem DFA-Team.
German-French joint venture between maexpartners GmbH & Theano Advisors SAS
Our Partner Dr Christian Franz has advised (with his former law firm) maexpartners GmbH on the establishment of a joint venture with Theano Advisors SAS in France and in Germany. maexpartners GmbH is a German management consultancy focused on industry and high technology, and is particularly active in the operational area.
The transaction involved the establishment of a joint consulting company in France under the name maexpartners SAS, as well as the opening of another joint consulting company in Germany under the name Theano Advisors GmbH. Both consulting companies will be "staffed" exclusively with binational teams, and will place their operational and strategic expertise at the service of large international clients.
#M&A # French Desk
A few case examples for our practice from the last 20+ years with hands on management by the partners of DFA
DFA assisted German client to enforce loan repayment by a French Bank
DFA attorneys obtain enforcement of claim for loan repayment by French bank under a French notarized loan agreement, making use of the fact that payment claims under a deed notarised in France constitute an enforceable title under the Brussels I and Brussels Ia Regulation, without having to have recourse to the courts first. Within days of receiving copy of the deed declared enforceable by the competent German court, the debtor paid of the entire amount plus cost.
# International Business law # Litigation # French Desk
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