Dr Alexander Retsch

Partner | Lawyer since 2015

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Phone: +49 211 20052-140
Fax: +49 211 20052-100
Email: a.retsch(at)glademichelwirtz.com

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Sandra Menta

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Short Profile

Alexander Retsch is a partner at GLADE MICHEL WIRTZ in the CORPORATE and LITIGATION practice. He advises his clients on all aspects of corporate and capital markets law as well as on disputes in and out of court. In addition to advising on day-to-day business, he focuses on the field of dispute resolution and corporate litigation, including litigation at first and second instance, inter alia in investor lawsuits, in complex mass and test cases as well as in post-M&A and shareholder disputes.

Alexander Retsch studied law at the University of Cologne with a focus on corporate law. In 2013 he received a doctorate degree in law (Dr. jur.) with a thesis on capital markets law questions.

During his legal clerkship, Alexander Retsch worked at the German Consulate General in Miami, USA, as well as at the cologne office of a leading international law firm. In 2017 he worked several months at a British law firm in London.

Alexander Retsch is the author of numerous publications in the field of corporate and capital markets law and regularly lectures on these topics. In addition, he has been a lecturer for the Master's programme in "Business Law" at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster for many years. Alexander Retsch has been listed by Handelsblatt / Best Lawyers in the category "Germany's Best Lawyers" in corporate law since 2023. JUVE lists Alexander Retsch in its 2024/25 handbook as one of a total of six up-and-comers in corporate law and has also included him in the list of ”Top 40 under 40’ (corporate).

As well as his native German, Alexander Retsch is fluent in English. In his leisure time, Alexander Retsch likes to spend time with his wife and his two children as well as with sports (soccer, golf).

 

Experience and Matters

His professional experience includes, inter alia, the following matters:

  • Continental AG: Advising the management board in connection with the settlement of legal disputes
  • Vonovia SE: Advising the management board on stock corporation law
  • Advising a DAX 40 company on the defense against claims for damages following the sale of a subsidiary (post-M&A dispute)
  • Mercedes-Benz Group AG in the defense against investor claims in connection with diesel exhaust emissions in the context of KapMuG proceedings (representation in initial and test case proceedings)
  • Encavis AG: Advising the supervisory board
  • Mercedes-Benz Group AG in connection with the structuring and implementation of share buyback programs
  • Mercedes-Benz Group AG: Advising on the spin-off and subsequent carve-out of the commercial vehicle business from the Daimler Group through the spin-off of a majority stake in Daimler Truck AG
  • GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft  in relation to a share buy-back program
  • Mercedes-Benz Group AG: Ongoing advice on capital markets and corporate law
  • Deutsche Bank AG: Advice to Supervisory Board
  • Fujian Grand Chip Investment Fund LP on voluntary public takeover offer of AIXTRON SE 
  • Mercedes-Benz Group AG: In relation to the capital markets model case in connection with the ad-hoc announcement of the departure of Prof Schrempp

Publications

  • Sustmann/Retsch, Das neue KapMuG - Reform mit Licht und Schatten, AG 2024, 643
  • Sustmann/Retsch/Gerding, Kapitalmarktrechtliche Pflichten und Haftungsrisiken im Zusammenhang mit der ESG-Berichterstattung, AG 2022, S. 602-611
  • Merkner/Sustmann/Retsch, Das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen der kapitalmarktrechtlichen Ad-hoc-Publizitätspflicht und kartellrechtlichen Kronzeugenprogrammen, NZG 2021, 1198
  • Merkner/Sustmann/Retsch, Update: Insiderrecht und Ad-hoc-Publizität im neuen (und nun finalen) Emittentenleitfaden der BaFin, AG 2020, 477
  • Merkner/Sustmann/Retsch, Das neue Modul C des Emittentenleitfadens der BaFin – Auswirkungen auf die Kapitalmarktkommunikation bei M&A-Transaktionen, NZG 2020, 688
  • Merkner/Sustmann/Retsch, Insiderrecht und Ad-hoc-Publizität im neuen Emittentenleitfaden der BaFin, AG 2019, 621 (at the same time comment in the context of the BaFin Consultation 14/2019)
  • Retsch, Die Selbstbefreiung nach der Marktmissbrauchsverordnung, NZG 2016, 1201 et seq.
  • Retsch, Marktmissbrauchsrechtliche Regelungen des WpHG und der REMIT-VO im Stromspothandel, Dissertation, 2013