Clifford Chance
Harald Amer specialises in insolvency law, corporate law, and in distressed M&A.
He advises clients in restructurings and in insolvency proceedings with a particular focus on the representation of lenders in restructurings and insolvency proceedings of their borrowers. He has vast experience in the establishment of trusteeship solutions for distressed companies. Harald has worked on a number of landmark restructuring cases in the last couple of years. He is a member of our banks and automotive sector focus groups.
- Advising the management of Jack Wolfskin regarding the financial restructuring of the group of companies
- Advising a Japanese financial institution within the restructuring of the Takata Group
- Advising the lenders of the landlord of A.T.U. in the restructuring of A.T.U.
- Advsing the lenders of dress for less during the restructuring and insolvency proceedings of dress for less
- Advising a major German bank on a share pledge enforcement with the aim to establish a back up solution for its distressed borrower
- Advsing an international bank on defending a triple-digit million Euro claim from an insolvency administrator
- Advsing the City of Frankfurt on the sale of Fraspa to Helaba
- Advsing authentos / Bundesdruckerei on its restructuring and consecutive sale
News and client work
Contact details
- Clifford Chance, Munich
- +4989216328457
- Email me
- Speaks German and English
- Practice area Global Financial Markets, Restructuring & insolvency, M&A corporate
- Sector Real estate, Banks, Automotive
Career and qualifications
- University of Erlangen 1992-1998 (First State Examination, January 1998)
- Legal clerkship at the Oberlandesgericht Nürnberg 1998-2000 (Second State Examination, June 2000)
- University of San Diego 2000 -2001 (Master of Laws, May 2001)
- Joined Clifford Chance 2002
- Admitted as a lawyer since May 2002
- Counsel since 2009
Professional bodies
- Member of the German American Lawyers Association
Awards and citations
- Notable Practitioner
IFLR1000 2022 - Restructuring & Insolvency