Education and professional experience
1963-1966 | Legal and Business studies at the Universities of Cologne, Fribourg (Switzerland) and Munich; Scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (Academic Grants Foundation) |
1967 | First Legal State Exam |
1968-1970 | Legal traineeship at the Munich Higher Regional Court; simultaneously assistant to the Siemens AG Law and Taxation Department Manager, Munich |
1969 | Dr. jur. University of Cologne (LLD) |
1970 | Second Legal State Exam |
1970 |
Admission to the Bar
First worked in a specialist tax law practice (RAe Dres. Felix, Heinemann und Partner) and from 1972 in a practice emphasising competition law (RAe Deringer, Tessin, Herrmann & Sedemund, today Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer)
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1971 | Certified Tax Lawyer |
1974 | Commencement of independent professional work, founding a firm with exclusive rights of audience at Cologne Higher Regional Court; commencement of specialisation in insolvency law through membership of the advisory committee for creditors of the bankrupt Herstatt Bank; thereafter many years giving advice in insolvency law |
1976/1977 | Foundation (and today owner as to 50 %, alongside the Dr. Otto Schmidt KG publishing group) of RWS Verlag Kommunikationsforum GmbH, Cologne, publishers specialising in commercial law literature: - (inter alia RWS Lecture Notes and Documentation; Commentaries and Manuals; Journals: „Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht und Insolvenzpraxis“, „Entscheidungen zum Wirtschaftsrecht“, „Zeitschrift für Bankrecht und Bankwirtschaft/Journal of Banking Law and Banking“, „Zeitschrift für Immobilienrecht“, „Zeitschrift für Verbraucher- und Privat-Insolvenzrecht“, „Zeitschrift für Wettbewerbsrecht“) and in organising seminars in the fields of law, business and taxation |
since 1978 | Commencement of practice as Insolvency Administrator; since then almost exclusively in practice in business turnarounds and windings-up, acting as Administrator in over 1,500 insolvencies |
1979 | Brings his own practice into the firm of Kübler Rogier & Partner, Cologne; Managing Partner |
1980 | Founder, joint publisher and chief editor (to 1990) of "Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht - ZIP" (initially entitled "Insolvenzrecht - Zeitschrift für die gesamte Insolvenzpraxis"); since 1989 sole managing editor |
1981 | Co-founder of the European Insolvency Administrators’ association - INSOL Europe; Vice President 1981 to 1991; President 1992 to 1994 |
since 1986 |
Co-founder and chief spokesman (to 1998) of the Gravenbrucher Kreis, an association of Insolvency Administrators with trans-regional practices and experience in turnarounds; joint author of numerous Gravenbrucher Kreis position papers on the reform proposals of the Commission on Insolvency Law (1986), and the draft legislation of the Federal Ministry of Justice (1989/1990), and of the alternative draft Insolvency Code (1993)
Initiator and co-editor of the series "Beiträge zum Insolvenzrecht" (RWS-Verlag, Cologne)
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1988-1990 | General managing agent and (later) chairman of the advisory committee for a large motor industry supplier (350 employees) in Solingen; successfully sold off in 1990 |
1990 | Multiple-branch firm commences business, opening of Berlin offices |
1993 | Expert witness at the Deutsche Bundestag hearings on insolvency law reform |
1997 | Founder and sole managing editor of "Zeitschrift für Immobilienrecht - ZflR" |
since 1998 | Editor (together with Hanns Prütting and Reinhard Bork) and co-author of the major commentary on the Insolvency Code "Kübler/Prütting/Bork" |
2000 | Certified Insolvency Lawyer |
2002 |
Renaming of the firm as KÜBLER Rechtsanwälte · Insolvenzverwalter · Wirtschaftsprüfer · Steuerberater;
Merger with the firm of BREITENBÜCHER with offices in Erfurt and Heilbronn
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Insolvency Administrator for numerous Courts and member of Creditor's Committees and advisory bodies
In Germany:
Baden-Wuerttemberg:
Aalen
Bavaria:
Augsburg, Hof, Munich, Nuremberg, Regensburg, Traunstein
Berlin:
Berlin-Charlottenburg
Brandenburg:
Cottbus, Frankfurt/O., Neuruppin, Potsdam
Hessen:
Frankfurt/M., Offenbach/M.
Lower Saxony:
Cloppenburg, Braunschweig
North-Rhine-Westfalia:
Aachen, Bergisch Gladbach, Bonn, Essen, Euskirchen, Geilenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, Gummersbach, Iserlohn, Cologne, Mönchengladbach, Neuss, Olpe, Remscheid, Siegen, Wuppertal
Rhineland-Palatinate:
Trier
Saarland:
Saarbrücken
Saxony:
Chemnitz, Dresden, Leipzig
Saxony-Anhalt:
Halle
Thuringia:
Erfurt, Gera, Meiningen
Outside Germany:
Netherlands:
Venlo (Appointment as Second Administrator alongside Dutch colleagues)
Austria (Carinthia):
Appointment as chief Insolvency Administrator (Siegen Local Court) of an Austrian company
Publications/Editorships (Selection):
- Grenzen der Beeinflussung des Gewinnausweises nach den Bewertungsvorschriften des AktG 1965 (1969)
- Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht - ZIP (from 1980, since 1989 sole managing editor)
- Entscheidungen zum Wirtschaftsrecht - EWiR (from 1985, sole managing editor)
- Schriftenreihe "Beiträge zum Insolvenzrecht" (1986 and following years, co-editor)
- Das Gesamtvollstreckungsrecht in den neuen Bundesländern (2nd edn.,1992, editor)
- Kübler/Prütting/Bork, InsO, Kommentar zur Insolvenzordnung (since 1998, co-editor and co-author)
- Bork/Kübler, Insolvenzrecht 2000 (2001, co-editor)
- Das neue Insolvenzrecht (2nd edn., 2000, co-editor)
- HRI - Handbuch der Restrukturierung in der Insolvenz (3rd edn., 2018, editor and co-author)
- Various contributions to journals and festschrifts
Memberships/Honorary Appointments (Selection)
In Germany
- Arbeitskreis für Insolvenzwesen Köln
- Berlin/Brandenburger Arbeitskreis für Insolvenzrecht
- Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristen-Vereinigung (DAJV)
- ARGE Insolvenzrecht und Sanierung im Deutschen Anwaltverein (DAV)
- Deutscher Juristentag (DJT)
- Dresdner Juristische Gesellschaft
- Gravenbrucher Kreis
- Kölner Anwaltverein
- Kölner Juristische Gesellschaft
- VID - Verband Insolvenzverwalter Deutschlands
- Wustrauer Arbeitskreis für Insolvenzrecht
Outside Germany
- INSOL Europe (Honorary Member, President 1992 to 1994)
- International Bar Association (IBA)
- ILN International Lawyers Network
- Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA)
Decorations
Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1998
Languages
German, English, French