Lucas F. Flöther

Bankruptcy Lawyer, Expert on Risk and Crisis Management

Lucas F. Flöther

Bankruptcy Lawyer, Expert on Risk and Crisis Management

Lucas F. Flöther is a founding and name partner of the law firm Flöther & Wissing and one of Germany's most renowned insolvency experts. His extensive experience with clients such as Air Berlin or Unister makes him an expert in risk and crisis management. From 1992 to 1997 Lucas F. Flöther (*1974) studied law at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. He became a lawyer in 1999 and received his doctorate the following year. Since 1999, Lucas F. Flöther has been regularly appointed as insolvency administrator by various insolvency courts and as administrator in self-administration proceedings. In his more than 15 years of practice, he has handled a total of over 1,000 insolvency proceedings. At the age of 25, Lucas F. Flöther was the youngest corporate insolvency administrator in Germany at the time. His firm, which now has ten offices in Germany, is one of the leading German law firms in all areas of restructuring and insolvency law. For more than 20 years, the firm has offered sector-independent and cross-sector insolvency administration, administration in kind, self-administration and restructuring advice. Since 2001, Prof Dr Flöther has held a lectureship in enforcement and insolvency law or civil procedure law at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and since 2012 he has been an honorary professor in the field of civil law and insolvency law at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Lucus F. Flöther is the spokesman of the "Gravenbrucher Kreis", a member of the expert panel set up by the Federal Ministry of Justice to draft a law on group insolvency law and chairman of the Insolvency Law Committee of the German Federal Bar Association.

About Lucas F. Flöther

Lucas F. Flöther is a founding and name partner of the law firm Flöther & Wissing and one of Germany's most renowned insolvency experts. His extensive experience with clients such as Air Berlin or Unister makes him an expert in risk and crisis management.

From 1992 to 1997 Lucas F. Flöther (*1974) studied law at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. He became a lawyer in 1999 and received his doctorate the following year.

Since 1999, Lucas F. Flöther has been regularly appointed as insolvency administrator by various insolvency courts and as administrator in self-administration proceedings. In his more than 15 years of practice, he has handled a total of over 1,000 insolvency proceedings. At the age of 25, Lucas F. Flöther was the youngest corporate insolvency administrator in Germany at the time.

His firm, which now has ten offices in Germany, is one of the leading German law firms in all areas of restructuring and insolvency law. For more than 20 years, the firm has offered sector-independent and cross-sector insolvency administration, administration in kind, self-administration and restructuring advice.

Since 2001, Prof Dr Flöther has held a lectureship in enforcement and insolvency law or civil procedure law at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and since 2012 he has been an honorary professor in the field of civil law and insolvency law at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

Lucus F. Flöther is the spokesman of the "Gravenbrucher Kreis", a member of the expert panel set up by the Federal Ministry of Justice to draft a law on group insolvency law and chairman of the Insolvency Law Committee of the German Federal Bar Association.

Topics

  • The Demand for a Cculture of Failure in Germany
  • Typical Management Mistakes
  • Criminal and Liability Risks for Entrepreneurs
  • Avoiding Insolvency
  • Possible Ways to Restructure a Company
  • Use of Insolvency Pproceedings as a Restructuring Instrument
  • Preventive Restructuring Framework