Dr. Georg A. Wittuhn LL.M. (McGill)
Attorney-at-Law | Partner | Specialist Lawyer for Commercial and Corporate Law
Georg A. Wittuhn’s main areas of practice are corporate law, commercial law, mergers & acquisitions, estate planning, in particular foundation law and private international law. He is completely fluent in English and French. Georg A. Wittuhn: “I don’t want to force through short-term interests, but to build long-term structures.” He is one of HUTH DIETRICH HAHN’s lawyers with experience of litigation and has written about his experience in numerous publications on corporate and litigation law.
A native of Hamburg, he studied at the Universities of Hamburg, Geneva, Cambridge and McGill in Montreal. He is a member of the Expert Committee for Commercial and Corporate Law at the Hanseatic Bar Association in Hamburg.
Memberships and Activities
- Fachausschuss für Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht bei der Hanseatischen Rechtsanwaltskammer Hamburg
Publications
- Das Internationale Privatrecht des Trusts, Frankfurt 1987;
- Pre-Trial Discovery in Canada, Frankfurt 1989;
- Patronatserklärungen im Anglo-Amerikanischen Rechtskreis, RIW 1990, 495;
- Kleinwort Benson Ltd. v. Malaysian Mining Corporation, McGill Law Journal 35 (1990) 505;
- Herausdrängen von Minderheitsaktionären einer Aktiengesellschaft – Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten beim Squeeze Out, MDR 2003, 372;
- Trusts, Erbrecht und Eigentum, ZEV 2007, 419;
- Herabsetzung von Vorstandsvergütungen in der Krise, ZGR 2009, 847;
- Unternehmenskaufverträge und das Recht der Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen, NZG 2014, 131;
- International Liability of Corporate Directors (Chapter Germany), London, 2011, updated 2020;
- International Civil Procedure (Chapter Germany), London, 2011, updated 2019.
- Ballnacht in Babelsberg, Hamburg 2019
Expertise
- Corporate Law
- Commercial Law
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Inheritance Law
- Private International Law
Languages
- German
- English
- French