Dr Philipp Elixmann

Counsel | Lawyer since 2021

Contact
Phone: +49 211 20052-260
Fax: +49 211 20052-100
Email: p.elixmann(at)glademichelwirtz.com

Assistant
Cara Paronz Boschian

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Short Profile

Philipp Elixmann is a Counsel at GLADE MICHEL WIRTZ and works with the CORPORATE practice. He advises on General Company Law, Capital Markets Law and Transaction Business. 

Philipp Elixmann studied law at the University of Muenster. In this context, he also completed a foreign law program in Anglo-American Law. After completing his First Legal Exam in 2015, he worked for several years as a research assistant in the corporate team of a leading international law firm in Duesseldorf and obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Osnabrueck on a topic regarding German Takeover Law. 

During his legal clerkship, Philipp Elixmann inter alia spent time at the German Embassy Astana (previously Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan) and in an Insolvency and Corporate Law Senate of the Higher Regional Court of Hamm. He passed the Second Legal Exam in 2020. Besides his native German, Philipp Elixmann fluently speaks English. 

Philipp Elixmann spends his leisure time with family and friends and does sports.

 

Experience and Matters

  • ABACON CAPITAL GmbH in connection with the voluntary public takeover offer of the Elbe BidCo AG to the shareholders of Encavis AG
  • Daimler Truck Holding AG: Ongoing advice on corporate law, including preparation and support of the Annual General Meeting
  • Daimler Truck Holding AG in relation to a share buy-back program
  • Daimler Truck AG in connection with the integration of Mitsubishi Fuso and Hino Motors
  • Deutsche Wohnen SE in connection with the conclusion of a domination and profit loss transfer agreement with Vonovia SE
  • GEA Group AG on the corporate law conceptualization and implementation of a say on climate resolution at the 2024 Annual general Meeting
  • GEA Group AG in connection with the share buyback programs 2021 and 2023
  • MEDICLIN AG: Ongoing advice on corporate law
  • Mercedes-Benz Group AG (former Daimler AG): Advice on the separation of the commercial vehicle business from the Daimler Group through spin-off of a majority shareholding in Daimler Truck AG (Project Focus 2021)
  • Mercedes-Benz Group AG re defense against investor lawsuits in relation to Diesel exhaust emissions
  • RHÖN-KLINIKUM AG: Ongoing advice on corporate law
  • Scania CV AB on the establishment of a joint venture in the field of sustainable logistics and on other corporate law issues, inter alia in connection with the insurance of convertible loans

Publications

  • Merkner/Schulenburg/Elixmann, Beobachtungen zum virtuellen Hauptversammlungsformat der DAX-Gesellschaften in der Saison 2025, AG 2025, S. 727-735
  • Merkner/Schulenburg/Elixmann, Zulässigkeit des Erwerbs eigener Aktien über multilaterale Handelssysteme bei einer Ermächtigung zum Erwerb "über die Börse", AG 2025, S. 417-425
  • Merkner/Schulenberg/Elixmann, Praxisfragen bei der Konzeptionierung und Durchführung eines Say on Climate, AG 2024, S. 257-268
  • Merkner/Schulenburg/Elixmann, Beobachtungen zur Handhabung der neuen Regelungen zur virtuellen Hauptversammlung durch die DAX-40-Unternehmen, AG 2023, S. 643-652
  • Merkner/Retsch/Elixmann, Ausgewählte Praxisfragen im Zusammenhang mit Aktienrückkaufprogrammen insbesondere bei Anwendung des Safe-Harbour-Regimes, AG 2022, S. 764-771
  • Elixmann, Die Behandlung von Wandelanleihen bei öffentlichen Übernahmen, Dissertation, 2021

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