Stephanie Bender, LLM
Rechtsanwältin (Lawyer), Senior Associate
Stephanie Bender is a senior associate of the practice groups Restructuring & Insolvency and Corporate/M&A in Noerr’s Hamburg office. She is involved in the advice of clients in the areas of insolvency law and restructuring. Her legal advice focuses on both the debtor and the creditor sides in the context of out-of court and in-court financial restructurings and refinancings. She also advises national and global companies on corporate law issues and M&A transactions.
Projects
- VARTA
Advising a consortium of banks on the financial restructuring, incl. StaRUG-proceedings ("German Scheme") (since 2024) - BRANICKS
Advising OWH SE i.L. on the financial restructuring, incl. StaRUG-proceedings ("German Scheme") (2024) - STEAG
Advising lenders of STEAG GmbH on the conclusion of a new financing agreement (2021/ 2022) - Wirecard
Advising Wirecard AG‘s insolvency administrator on the sale and winding-up processes of Wirecard Bank AG and bond restructuring (2020/2021) - German automotive supplier
Advising a company in the automotive sector on the conclusion of a new financing agreement (2021/ 2022) - M+ Group
Advising M+ Group, an independent international market leader in the field of business process and technology outsourcing, on its acquisition of the Invitel GmbH (2021/ 2022) - NIC
Advising Nature Infrastructure Capital (NIC) on the acquisition of MaxSolar GmbH, a com-pany specialising in energy storage systems and charging solutions, developing ground-mounted and rooftop solar projects and providing utility-scale and rooftop EPC services for photovoltaic systems (2021/ 2022) - LVM
Advising LVM a.G. on the sale of Augsburg Aktienbank’s leasing subsidiary to PEAC Finance (2020/ 2021) - Harvia
Advising the Finnish Harvia Group on the acquisition of a majority stake in the German EOS Group (2020)
Career
Archaeology and anthropology studies at the University of Cambridge, UK
Legal studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Postgraduate studies (LL.M.) at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA
Legal traineeship at the Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht Hamburg
Admitted to the Hamburg Chamber of Lawyers
With Noerr since 2020
Publications
- Commenting on sections 49 to 59 of the German Corporate Stabilisation and Restructuring Act (StaRUG), in: Seibt/Westpfahl, StaRUG, 1st edition 2023 (together with Simone Schönen)
- Vorsicht ist besser als Nachsicht – Krisenfrüherkennung und -management nach § 1 StaRUG und die Rolle der Warenkreditversicherung, VersPrax 2023 (together with Dr. Philipp Koch)