Dr. Birka Stroschein

Dr Birka Stroschein read law at the University of Cologne.

As a member of a student team of the Rechtszentrum für Europäische und Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Cologne (R.I.Z.), she took part in the 8th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot held by Pace University, New York, and finished as runner-up.

She then took her doctorate in international civil procedure at the Institute for Private International and Foreign Law of the University of Cologne.

Following her Referendariat (post-graduate practical legal training) at the Landgericht Köln (Cologne Regional Court) and her admission to the bar in 2007, she worked for DLA Piper UK LLP in the corporate practice group in Frankfurt am Main.

She then worked as in-house counsel and general counsel for HRS GmbH and later for Qvest GmbH in Cologne.

Since 2012 she has held the title of Fachanwältin für Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht (certified specialist in commercial and corporate law), conferred by the Rechtsanwaltskammer (bar association) Frankfurt am Main.

In commercial law her work covers the drafting and negotiation of contracts for day-to-day business, distribution law, and the ongoing representation of clients before authorities, notaries, commercial registers and the courts.

In corporate law her practice ranges from the formation and purchase of companies (including shelf companies), the liquidation and reorganisation of companies, through ongoing advice to mid-sized businesses (“corporate housekeeping”), to complex domestic and multinational transactions on the buy side and the sell side.

She acts in corporate disputes both out of court and before the courts.