Jörg-Peter Kraack
Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer), Associated Partner
Capital Markets
Corporate
Mergers & Acquisitions
Jörg-Peter Kraack is an associated partner based in Noerr’s Hamburg office. He is highly experienced in advising (listed) companies on all aspects of corporate law and capital markets law. His main practice areas focus on board room advice, corporate governance matters and capital markets compliance. Further, Jörg-Peter is regularly advising clients in respect of M&A transactions and equity capital market projects.
Projects
- Northvolt Germany GmbH on general corporate law and M&A matters in relation to its Gigafactory project in Germany
- Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA on its change of legal form into a stock corporation (2023)
- team SE on the acquisition of the majority stake in Hauptgenossenschaft Nord AG (share for share) from the Danish DLG with the Swedish Lantmännen joining as a new investor (2022)
- Two DAX companies in review of Russia business (2022)
- SAF-HOLLAND SE on the € 300 million takeover bid for Swedish Haldex AB (2022)
- Hamburg-based online marketplace for designer fashion "Rebelle.com" on IPO in Stockholm (2022)
Distinctions
- In this year's The Best Lawyers® in Germany edition the US publishing house in cooperation with business daily Handelsblatt® commend Jörg-Peter as one of Germany's best lawyers for corporate law.
Career
Legal studies at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg and Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto (Canada)
Worked as a lawyer in the field of stock corporation law, capital market law and public M&A in a leading international business law firm in Hamburg with professional station in Düsseldorf
At Noerr since 2022
Admitted to the Hanseatic Chamber of Lawyers Hamburg
Memberships
- Corporate Law Association - Scientific Association for Corporate and Company Law (Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht (VGR))
Publications
- Investment-related publicity - replacing the system functions of the capital principle with investor publicity in the law of listed stock corporations (dissertation, 2022)
- Commentary on §§ 34-37, 127, 130 WpHG, in: BeckOK Wertpapierhandelsrecht, 10th Edition, 2024
- Takeover law implications of the Future Financing Act, NZG 2023, p. 1151
- Resolution on the transfer of shares for a squeeze-out does not require factual justification (comment on OLG Köln v. 23.6.2022 – 18 U 213/20), EWiR 2022, p. 745
- The relationship between occasional ad hoc notifications and periodic opportunities and risk reporting for information in a transactional context, AG 2022, p. 267
- Notification obligations and takeover law, Annex II to Section 10, in: Kölner Kommentar WpÜG, 3rd edition, 2022
- The New Issuers' Guide to Market Abuse Law, ZIP 2020, p. 1398
- Practical Guide to the BaFin Issuer Guideline Module C, BKR 2020, p. 313
- The Substitute Company of the Insolvent Corporation - Basic Questions and Technical Implementation, AG 2018, p. 525
- The contradiction against the overall fulfilment of the fixed gender quota in the supervisory board, ZIP 2018, p. 49
- Participation publicity in acquisition and takeover offers, AG 2017, p. 677
- Directors' Dealings in Acquisition and Takeover Bids, AG 2016, p. 57
- The "ineffectual attempt" to cancel a general meeting convened at the request of a minority, DNotZ 2016, p. 15
- The fixed gender quota in the supervisory board, in: Gender and women's quotas in the private sector, 2015