Partner of LSV Rechtsanwalts GmbH
Current activity
Professional focus
- Corporate law
- especially company purchases and sales
- competition and anti-trust law
- arbitration and mediation
- labour law for managers
Areas of law
My career
- Attorney, Frankfurt am Main, 1981
- Tax Lawyer, Honorary professor at the Dresden Technical University, 1998
- Attorney with Coudert Brothers, New York, 1981 - 1982
- Active as an attorney in Germany since 1982
- Senior Partner at Wessing & Berenberg-Gossler, Frankfurt am Main, 1986 -1998
- Managing Partner of the Leipzig office of Wessing & Berenberg-Gossler, 1990 - 1997
- Founding and Managing Partner of the Pricewaterhouse Coopers Veltins Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH and International Partner at PwC, 1998 - 2003
- Member of the Executive Board of Landwell, Member of the Country Leadership Team of PwC Germany, Member of the Tax Executive Board of PwC Germany
- Partner at LSV, 2005
Arbitration experience
Participation in various proceedings as umpire, arbitrator, co-arbitrator and party representative; subject matter of arbitration: corporate law, distribution law, licence law, post merger acquisition
Publications
- Numerous publications in journals and books; please find a detailed list of Michael Veltins' publications at www.LSV-Legal.com
Languages
- German
- English
Memberships
- Deutsches Institut für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (DIS) (German Institute of Arbitration) Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Fachanwälte für Steuerrecht e.V. im Deutschen Anwaltsinstitut (DAI) (Work Group for Certified Specialists in Tax Law in the German Advocates’ Institute)
- Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristenvereinigung (German-American Lawyers’ Association)
- Deutscher AnwaltVerein (DAV) (German Lawyers’ Association)
- Deutsches Institut für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (DIS) (German Institute of Arbitration)
- International Bar Association (IBA)
- London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
- Österreichische Vereinigung für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (ASA) (Austrian Institute of Arbitration)
- Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V. (Antitrust Lawyers' Association)
- AAA