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Axel Löhde

Lawyer

Axel Löhde specialises in providing comprehensive advice to large and medium-sized companies and representing them in court and arbitration proceedings.

Further, he has been advising on national and international joint ventures, M&A and corporate venture capital transactions as well as IP/IT projects for over 40 years.

He is regularly appointed as counsel and arbitrator in ad hoc and institutional arbitration proceedings.

He has been recommended many times by German legal directories JUVE Handbuch and Legal 500 EMEA and has been awarded by legal directory Handelsblatt | Best Lawyers repeatedly and again 2024 as one of Germany’s leading company law experts

Axel Löhde

Bio

  • 2024
    Foundation of Löhde Rechtsanwälte PartGmbB
  • 2013
    Partner at Watson Farley & Williams LLP
  • 2011
    Member and Chairman of a large Hamburg Foundation
  • 2005
    Honorary Judge and member of the Presidium of the Hamburg Bar Court
  • 1982
    Lawyer and partner in leading German commercial law firms
  • 1981
    Legal clerkship in Hamburg and New York, second state exam
  • 1979
    First state exam
  • 1973
    Studies at the University of Hamburg
Axel Löhde
Lawyer
T +49 40 82 211 7872
M +49 173 237 9498
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Recent Experience

  • Comprehensive advice to numerous companies and their shareholders in the operational business
  • Advising an international chemical company on the establishment of a German-Chinese joint venture in Changzou
  • Successfully representing a German investment company in the defence against the enforcement of a foreign arbitration award in Germany by an EU state
  • Advising an international manufacturer of engineering plastics on a corporate venture capital investment in a Danish plastics recycling company
  • Successfully representing a leading German manufacturer of catalytic converter systems in the judicial annulment of an arbitration award
  • Successfully representing the minority shareholder of a large family business in defence against a claim for damages of EUR 480 million by the majority shareholder
  • Advising a leading statutory health insurance company on the complete outsourcing of its IT and on the subsequent projects
  • Advising a large group holding company on several group-wide software development projects

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