Dr. Jörg Fischer

Attorney-at-law - Partner
Specialist attorney for commercial and corporate law

Jörg Fischer looks back on a decades-long career in the management of large German companies. Thanks to his intensive involvement with legal issues, he offers our clients a unique combination of broad business experience and high legal expertise.

As a partner at REEGRECHTSANWÄLTE, he focuses on advising on all legal issues that may arise in the day-to-day business of a company, particularly in contract, commercial, and corporate law, M&A, and insolvency.

After studying law and obtaining his doctorate at the University of Freiburg and studying law and political science at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, he worked for several years as a research assistant at the Institute for Foreign and International Private Law at the University of Freiburg and finally as a lawyer at a renowned large law firm before taking on a management position in the business world in 1990. After holding various positions, including commercial managing director of KUKA Schweißanlagen GmbH, Augsburg (now "KUKA Systems GmbH"), member of the executive board of its parent company IWKA Aktiengesellschaft, Karlsruhe (now "KUKA AG"), a listed stock corporation, and deputy chairman of the board of a large family-owned company, he joined Bosch in 2008, where he served as chairman of the executive board of the Bosch Service Solutions business sector until the end of 2018.

Thanks to his excellent legal training and broad, commercially oriented industrial experience, he is particularly adept at communicating business practice and the legal issues that arise from it in such a way that practical solutions can be found. Thanks to his many years of experience in industry and his intensive consulting work as a lawyer, he quickly fulfilled the requirements to become a specialist lawyer for commercial and corporate law.

Dr. Fischer speaks fluent German, English, and French and is very familiar with the international business environment.

His legal track record includes the following mandates:

• Drafting the articles of association for a GmbH & Co. KG exempt from trade tax for the management of real estate assets of a community of heirs

• Transfer of a sole proprietorship to a GmbH & Co. KG to avoid final taxation after cessation of business. Preparation of contracts for the gift transfer of company shares by way of anticipated succession in return for the granting of a usufruct

• Corporate law structuring of the transfer of a limited liability company (GmbH) into a group of GmbHs with holding and divisional companies. Preparation of the articles of association. Structuring of the group of companies

• Support of a minority shareholder without a blocking minority in a limited liability company (GmbH) in the defense against impermissible transactions of the majority shareholder with the company and impermissible amendments to the articles of association

• Investigation of alternative corporate law structuring options regarding a completed sale of business shares with separate transfer of real estate assets for the enforcement of insurance claims under a financial loss liability policy

• Examination of the liability of honorary board members of a foundation due to insufficient use of legal advice in the course of a company sale

• Examination of the need to amend a foundation statute drafted in accordance with previous state law as part of the standardization of foundation law

• Defense against an action for rescission and nullity brought by the trustor due to the redemption of shares held by the trustee in a limited liability company (GmbH)

• Withdrawal of shares in a limited liability company (GmbH)

• Acquisition of shares in a German limited liability company (GmbH) by an English limited company

• Enforcement of price increases by an automotive supplier

• Legal prosecution of the payment claim arising from a strong letter of comfort

• Advising shareholders of a limited liability company (GmbH) on their scope of action and obligations in the event of foreseeable or actual insolvency of their company

• Die Unsicherheitseinrede: eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung über die Rechte eines Vertragspartners bei Vermögensverschlechterung der anderen Partei zum deutschen und US-amerikanischen Recht sowie zu den einheitlichen Kaufrechten, 1988