Dieter Hettenbach
Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer), Attorney Specialising in Banking and Capital Markets, Associated Partner
Class & Mass Action Defense
Real Estate Investment Group
Dieter Hettenbach is an associated partner based in Noerr’s Frankfurt office and a member of our Class & Mass Action Defense practice group. He represents companies in complex litigation before state courts. The spectrum of his activities includes representation in capital investor model proceedings under the KapMuG and model declaratory actions. He has an industry focus in the area of banking law, where he comprehensively advises and represents well-known credit institutions ans asset managers in the area of banking and capital investment law. Over the years he has defended multiple clients against mass proceedings, whether by providing strategic advice or managing and coordinating implementation by the team
Projects
- Long-standing representation of renowned banks in litigation nationwide
- Succesful representation of Deutsche Bank AG in four capital investor model cases at Higher Regional Courts and Federal Supreme Court
- Defence against the first model declaratory action in Germany
- Representation of a credit institution in a litigation regarding payment services with an amount in dispute of more than 15 million euros.
Distinctions
- Recommended Lawyer for Financial Services Litigation, in particular Model case proceedings in capital market disputes and Actions for collective redress, The Legal 500 Germany, 2022
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Career
Studied law and European law at the University of Würzburg
Internships with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Frankfurt, an international British major law firm and Siemens AG
At Noerr since 2009
Secondment in the legal department of Deutsche Bank AG
Admitted to the Frankfurt Chamber of Lawyers
Publications
- The "Draft of a Second Act to Reform the Capital Investor Model Case Act" - Overview and initial assessment, WM 6/2024, p. 237
- On the admissibility of a flat-rate institution fee when calculating the early repayment penalty; comment on the judgement of the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt of 4 October 2023, Ref. 17 U 214/22; EWiR 1/2024, p. 5
- On the legal consequences of the cancellation of a general consumer loan agreement linked to a vehicle purchase agreement; comment on the judgement of the Federal Court of Justice of 14.2.2023, ref. XI ZR 537/21; EWiR 9/2023, p. 257
- In the event of an unfair term in a consumer contract, no recourse to dispositive law in the absence of nullity of the entire contract - comment on the judgement of the ECJ of 8.9.2022, EWiR 21/2022, p. 661
- No inhibition of individual claims through initiation of KapMuG proceedings - comment on the judgement of the LG berlin of 28.3.2022, EWiR 13/2022, p. 399
- ECJ submission on the denial of the beneficial legal consequences of a validly exercised revocation upon the assumption of abuse of rights - comment on the judgement of the BGH of 31.1.2022, EWiR 7/2022, p. 195
- The filing of paperbased submissions during oral hearing in times of the "beA usage obligation" (with judge D. Müller), in: NJW 2022, 815
- Compensation for damages due to data transmission to Schufa in case of only minor overdraft of the overdraft facility - comment on the judgement of the LG Lüneburg of 14.7.2020, EWiR 15/2021, p. 451
- Unanfechtbarkeit der Verwerfung eines Musterverfahrensantrags durch Prozessgericht als unzulässig wegen Nicht-Eröffnung des Anwendungsbereichs des KapMuG - Anmerkung zum Beschluss des BGH vom 30.7.2020, EWiR 23/2020, S. 713 (mit Kolja Dörrscheidt)
- Negative Musterfeststellungsklagen ?, in: WM 2019, pp. 577 et seq.
- Voraussetzungen der Verjährung eines Schadensersatzanspruches wegen unterlassener Aufklärung über Rückvergütungen, in: BetriebsBerater 2013, 46/2013, pp. 2763 et seq.
- Zur (fehlenden) Kausalität unterlassener Aufklärung über Rückvergütungen (with Wolf Stumpf), in: BetriebsBerater, 42/2012, pp. 2582 et seq.
- BGH: Senkung der Anforderungen an Prospekthinweise zu § 172 Abs. 4 HGB (with Wolf Stumpf) in: BetriebsBerater 2010, p. 211
- Das Übereinkommen der Vereinten Nationen über die Verwendung elektronischer Mittei-lungen bei internationalen Verträgen, doctoral thesis, 2009