Stefan Thoss
Managing Director
Lawyer

Contact
Telephone: +49 40 4223 6660-40
E-Mail: s.thoss@roser-hamburg.de
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Qualifications
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- Lawyer (since 2000)
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Education and professional experience
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- Studies of law at the Universities of Passau (First Legal State Exam) and Münster (post graduate)
- Legal clerkship (Referendariat) in Hamburg, Lüneburg, Frankfurt a. M. and Cape Town (Second Legal State Exam in the State of Niedersachsen)
- 2000–2005: Lovells (now HoganLovells), Hamburg
- 2005–2011: Susat Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg
- Since 2011: Roser Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
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Practice areas
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- Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions
- Public listed companies, capital markets
- Commercial
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Languages
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- German
- English
- French
- Spanish
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Recent transactions - Mergers & acquisitions
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- Advising a stock corporation in its sale to a private equity house by way of a capital increase
- Advising the shareholders of an automation company on the sale of the majority shareholding to a competitor
- Advising an Indian container glass producer on the sale of its subsidiary in Germany
- Advising an SAP consulting firm on the acquisition of a competitor with locations in Germany and Switzerland and relating to an add-on-acquisition
- Advising a family office on the acquisition of a bicycle wholesaler and in an add-on-acquisition of a competitor in Belgium
- Advising an automotive supplier on the establishment of several joint ventures, including a joint venture in China
- Advising a retailer on the acquisition of a participation in a tech start-up in France in a series C financing round and on the acquisition of a retail group in Spain
- Advising a rail logistics company in several acquisitions
- Advising a large German supplier of technical building equipment in several acquisitions
- Advising a property development group on several projects and acquisitions
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Recent transactions - Corporate, capital markets
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- Advising several stock corporations, both listed and non-listed, on annual general meetings including virtual annual general meetings
- Advising several stock corporations (SDAX, HASPAX) on the introduction of remuneration systems pursuant to the shareholders’ rights directive
- Advising several stock corporations on rights issues and share splits
- Advising issuers on the occasion of the introduction of the market abuse regulation and follow-up questions
- Advising on the establishment of cash pooling systems across the group
- Advising management boards and supervisory boards on corporate governance related issues
- Advising shareholders and companies in respect of contentious matters
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Recent transactions - Commercial
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- Knowledge of almost all standard quality assurance agreements and other standard terms (special terms etc.) in the automotive sector and of other suppliers
- Advising on numerous supply projects (domestic and cross-border)
- Advising a number of suppliers on product liability cases and recall campaigns
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Selected publications
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- Verzinsung des Verlustausgleichs- und Gewinnabführungsanspruchs im Vertragskonzern, DB 2007, 206 ff.
- Differenzhaftung bei der Kapitalerhöhung zur Durchführung einer Verschmelzung, NZG 2006, 376 ff.
- Austritt und Ausschluss eines Gesellschafters aus der GmbH sowie Einziehung seines Geschäftsanteils, NZG 2003, 1005 ff. (Co-Autor)
- Der Ausgleich für den Entzug von Mehrstimmrechten, ZIP 2002, 2075 ff. (Co-Autor)
- Die nachträgliche Verlagerung des tatsächlichen Sitzes einer GmbH, NZG 2002, 803 ff. (Co-Autor)