Christian Dolff, LLM
Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer)
Christian Dolff specialises in national and international litigation. Christian advises clients and represents their interests in complex disputes, often with a cross-border dimension, focusing mainly on corporate, liability and insurance matters. Christian is a regular author of articles and publications on these topics.
Projects
- Providing ongoing advice and representing companies and members of governing bodies before the courts, including D&O monitoring, in cross-border D&O liability cases
- Advising on an insolvency-related dispute regarding claims for damages on account of payments made after insolvency and unlawful contracts with members of the supervisory board (2017-2021)
- Advising and representing an automotive supplier on the enforcement of claims for damages against a former managing director due to irregularities at a US subsidiary (2013-2020)
- Advising on an insolvency-related post-M&A dispute involving claims for damages due to a breach of sellers’ warranties (2019)
- Advising and representing the former CFO of a publicly listed company in a cross-border D&O liability dispute on account of alleged tax irregularities in Turkey (2014-2019)
- Advising on an insolvency-related dispute concerning damages claims arising from contract manufacturing (2017, 2018)
- Advising and representing a trading company in a cross-border D&O liability dispute on account of prohibited derivatives transactions in Gibraltar (2015-2017)
- Advising and representing the client in company, distribution, and antitrust law-related litigation in the automotive sector; value of claim €3.5 billion (2016)
Distinctions
- "We see him often, really up and coming"
Competitors, JUVE Ranking - "I appreciate the full commitment to the matter, the goal-orientated thinking and the creativity in achieving the desired objectives. In particular, I would like to emphasise the cooperation with Christian Dolff, which is characterised by the high level of content, effectiveness and foresight with regard to the issues." -
Client, Legal 500 2025 (commercial litigation) - “Technically very adept, pleasant to work with“,
Client, JUVE Handbook 2024/2025 (Dispute Resolution) - Recommended as „Ones to watch” in Arbitration and Mediation, International Arbitration, Litigation
Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers 2024/2025
Career
Studied law at the University of Münster
Assistant with a major international law firm in Düsseldorf
Research assistant at the Institute for Corporate and Capital Markets Law (Prof. Rüdiger Veil)
Doctoral studies at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg
Postgraduate studies, Master of Laws (LL.M.) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)
At Noerr since 2013
Admitted to the Düsseldorf Chamber of Lawyers
Publications
- Kommentierung zu § 116 AktG (Sorgfaltspflicht und Verantwortlichkeit der Aufsichtsratsmitglieder) (with Ingo Theusinger)
Der Aufsichtsrat, 2. Aufl. 2023, Backhaus/Tielmann (Hrsg.) - Haftung des Aufsichtsrats wegen unterlassener Geltendmachung von Schadensersatzansprüchen gegen den Vorstand, Anmerkung zu OLG Hamm, Urt. v. 06.04.2022 – 8 U 73/12 (with Ingo Theusinger)
jurisPR-Compl. 3/2022 Anm. 1 - Kapitel: Streitigkeiten im Bereich Kapitalerhaltung (with Ingo Theusinger)
Corporate Litigation, 2nd Ed. 2021, Servatius (Hrsg.) - Richtigkeitsprüfung und Anspruch auf eidesstattliche Versicherung im Auskunftserzwingungsverfahren nach § 132 AktG? (with Ingo Theusinger)
DB 2021, 2886 - Reichweite und Grenzen des § 93 Abs. 4 Satz 3 AktG – Schiedsgutachtenvertrag und Zustimmungspflicht der Hauptversammlung, Anmerkung zu OLG München, Urt. v. 30.03.2017 – 23 U 3159/16 (with Ingo Theusinger)
jurisPR-Compl. 3/2017 Anm. 1 - Gerichtsstand des Erfüllungsorts bei Organhaftungsklagen, Anmerkung zu OLG München, Beschl. v. 21.12.2016 – 34 AR 135/16 (with Ingo Theusinger)
jurisPR-Compl. 10/2017 Anm. 1 - Kapitalmarktrechtliche Sanktionen nach dem Regierungsentwurf eines Ersten Finanzmarktnovellierungsgesetzes - 1. FimanoG (with Lars Teigelack)
BB 2016, p. 387 et seq. - Der Rechtsverlust gem. § 28 WpHG aus der Perspektive eines Emittenten
Dissertation, Baden-Baden 2011 - Kapitalmarktrechtliche Mitteilungspflichten des Treuhänders: Grundsätze und Grenzen der Zurechnung von Stimmrechtsanteilen nach § 22 WpHG (with Rüdiger Veil)
AG 2010, p. 385 et seq. - Bericht über die Diskussion des Referats Karsten Schmidt
Gesellschaftsrecht in der Diskussion 2009, Gesellschaftsrechtliche Vereinigung (Hrsg.), Köln 2010, p. 135 et seq.
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