References
Track Record
Since 2002, we have acted in 59 proceedings under German stock corporation law involving listed and unlisted companies – as court-appointed auditors (26), as court-appointed experts (19) and as party-appointed experts (14). Only mandates from publicly known proceedings are listed here; party expert opinions are subject to confidentiality.
Sectors of structural measure mandates since 2002
Original quotes from court decisions
Quality can be claimed – or documented. Here we quote verbatim from published court decisions on our expert opinions and audit reports.
Court-appointed expert“The Chamber knows the expert Creutzmann from a number of other proceedings in which he dealt with even difficult questions of business valuation in a highly knowledgeable manner.”
Regional Court Munich I, 22 June 2022, case 5 HK O 16226/08
Squeeze-out HypoVereinsbank AG
Court-appointed expert“… the extensive and convincing expert opinion of the court-appointed expert.”
Regional Court Cologne, 28 Oct 2022, case 82 O 49/14
Squeeze-out Generali Deutschland Holding AG
Court-appointed expertThe expert had determined the enterprise value of DVAG “in a comprehensible and convincing manner” – on the basis of a “comprehensive analysis of the economic situation” and “extensively reasoned, plausible conclusions”.
Higher Regional Court Düsseldorf, 6 May 2026, case I-26 W 8/23
Squeeze-out Generali Deutschland Holding AG
Court-appointed expert“The adjustment mechanism developed by the expert … is comprehensible and beyond objection. The expert explained the adjustment of revenues in his report comprehensively.”
Higher Regional Court Düsseldorf, 18 Mar 2024, case I-26 W 13/20
Squeeze-out Altana AG
Court-appointed expert“… [the result] that the expert determined and explained as plausibly as convincingly.”
Higher Regional Court Frankfurt a. M., 6 June 2019, case 21 W 68/13
Squeeze-out Dresdner Bank AG
Court-appointed auditor · IVA“… the court-appointed auditor carried out very thorough independent analyses, valuations and calculations …, which are … not limited to mere ‘verification’ …”
Regional Court Stuttgart, 12 Sept 2022, case 31 O 12/17 KfH SpruchG
Squeeze-out Primion Technology AG
Court-appointed auditor · IVA“… a court-appointed expert [is] not required, because the hearing of the court-appointed auditors has already led to a result that is convincing to the Chamber.”
Regional Court Munich I, 29 Apr 2020, case 5 HK O 12922/18
Squeeze-out Custodia Holding AG
Court-appointed auditor · IVA“The Senate therefore follows the court-appointed auditor …” – whose planning assumptions are “comprehensible and plausible”.
Bavarian Supreme Regional Court, 18 May 2022, case 101 ZBR 97/20
Squeeze-out Custodia Holding AG
Court-appointed auditor · IVA“… the court-appointed auditor [has] relied [on the relevant factors] with well-comprehensible reasons …” – the Senate followed her.
Higher Regional Court Frankfurt a. M., 9 Feb 2024, case 21 W 129/22
Squeeze-out ISRA VISION AG (Atlas Copco)
Court-appointed auditor · IVA“The liquidity analysis conducted by the court-appointed auditor showed that the share price was meaningful without restriction throughout the entire reference period.”
Regional Court Munich I, 13 Feb 2026, case 5 HK O 14435/24
Squeeze-out EQS Group AG
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