Katrin Schröder

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Katrin Schröder

Katrin Schröder

Counsel

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Katrin Schröder

Katrin Schröder

Counsel

Katrin Schröder

Counsel

Frankfurt

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Biography

Katrin Schröder is Counsel in our Restructuring & Insolvency/Special Situations practice group in Frankfurt. She advises companies on all questions of insolvency law as well as in the area of restructuring and M&A. Moreover, she has longstanding experience in self-administration and protective shield proceedings. Her work, therefore, regularly includes advising of managing directors and executives on the continuation of the business operation, preparing of insolvency filings, drafting of insolvency plans as well as advising in M&A in distress situations.  Prior to joining BCLP, Katrin worked for a number of German and international law firms with a focus on restructuring and insolvency law.

Civic Involvement & Honors

  • Europe's Female Rising Star, 2021

Professional Affiliations

  • Arbeitskreis für Insolvenzwesen Köln e.V.

Admissions

  • Germany

Experience

  • Various investors in distressed M&A mandates: Advising on the acquisition of companies out of insolvency.
  • Various project developers: Advising on solutions to avoid insolvency, preparing and supporting a StaRUG (Act on the Stabilization and Restructuring Framework for Businesses) procedure.
  • Various suppliers: Advising on the enforcement of their security rights against insolvency administrators, particularly in contract and insolvency plan negotiations within the insolvency proceedings.
  • Advised pension fund and its funds on various distressed credit exposures, including the acquisition of the project company into the fund for the development and completion of the project or enforcing claims against two real estate developers through forced administration and foreclosure procedures.
  • Advised a savings bank on avoiding the insolvency of a project developer, including supporting a StaRUG procedure.
  • Advised a German airline and its subsidiaries and sister companies on various international debtor insolvencies (e.g., with airlines, suppliers, partners, and lessors).
  • Pimkie Germany: Project management for the company's restructuring through an insolvency plan procedure.
  • Orsay GmbH: General representative in a protective shield procedure with an investor process and subsequent value-maximizing liquidation of the group under insolvency conditions, including partial sale of foreign subsidiaries.
  • *Project management for the restructuring of a system catering group with an investor process.
  • *Ongoing crisis consulting for several internationally active fashion and retail companies.
  • *Project management in a number of self-administration and insolvency plan procedures.

* Prior to BCLP

 

Resources

Publications

  • "Germany, Austria and France: 26 women, one single voice (Part 1)", Leaders League, 1 March 2024

  • The state of female empowerment in Germany in 2023: The Raven mother stigma disappears", Leaders League, 1 March 2023

  • "Better now than too late - How can self-administration and protective shield proceedings be used to save a company?", online event held by Zukunftsallianz Maschinenbau, 27 October 2020 (available in German)
  • "Significance of an investor process and a company valuation for the settlement calculation in the insolvency plan", ZInsO 2019, 711 (together with Martin Rekers) (available in German, only)
  • "Involvement of auxiliary persons in insolvency proceedings in self-administration", ZInsO 2018, 2626 (available in German, only)
  • "Information and cooperation obligations of the managing director in self-administration and insolvency plan
  • "No obligation of the debtor in self-administration to dual-track process", ZInsO 2018, 668 (available in German, only)
  • "May the debtor be left with an economic value after the insolvency plan?", ZInsO 2017, 1769 (available in German, only)
  • "Rights and Liability Risks of the Managing Director and the Interim Administrator for VAT Liabilities in the Interim Self-Administration Proceedings", ZInsO 2017, 905 (gemeinsam mit Robert Buchalik und Martin Rekers) (available in German, only)
  • "Tax court confirms the relevance of the so-called consent solution under insolvency law", ZInsO 2017, 862 (available in German, only)
  • "Criteria for determining appropriate remuneration in self-administration", ZInsO 2016, 2031 (together with Robert Buchalik) (available in German, only)
  • "Tax liabilities in provisional self-administration are not liabilities of the insolvency estate", ZInsO 2016, 2025 (together with Robert Buchalik) (available in German, only)
  • "The comparative calculation between the continuation costs in (provisional) self-administration and in regular insolvency proceedings - squaring the circle?", ZInsO 2016, 1445 (together with Robert Buchalik and Hartmut Ibershoff) (available in German, only)
  • "Can the debtor in self-administration be obliged to initiate and finance an M&A process even against its will?", ZInsO 2016, 189 (gemeinsam mit Robert Buchalik) (available in German, only)
  • "Without rights in insolvency plan proceedings? On the Lack of Legal Protection for Subordinated Creditors in Disputes about the Expected Excess Proceeds", ZInsO 2014, 2069 (available in German, only)

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