Alf Baars advises German and foreign enterprises and financial investors on national and cross-border company transactions, joint venture projects, restructurings and other corporate law issues. He specialises in M&A transactions involving Iberian and Latin American jurisdictions.
Alf Baars is listed in the branch leader JUVE Handbook as a frequently recommended lawyer in the areas of M&A and corporate law. Furthermore, Chambers Global names Alf Baars as the only foreign expert in Germany in the field of corporate/M&A for Latin America.
Alf Baars is a partner of Oppenhoff. In 2006 he began his career as an attorney at Linklaters LLP in Cologne. He studied law at the Universities of Bonn, Geneva and Munich and worked as a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. He has collectively spent several years studying abroad, in particular in Latin America and Australia.
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Portugiesisches Handelsgesetzbuch – Übersetzung [Portuguese Commercial Code – translation]
Europäisches Versicherungsvertragsrecht, Vol. III, ed. by Basedow/Fock, Tübingen dated 2003, pp. 334
Kommentar zum dritten Schiedsspruch im MERCOSUR [Annotation of the third arbitration award in MERCOSUR]
Horizont 2000, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden dated 2001, ed. by Basedow/Samtleben, pp. 303
Argentinische Auslandsanleihen vor deutschen und argentinischen Gerichten [Argentinian foreign bonds before German and Argentinian courts]
Zeitschrift für Bankrecht und Bankwirtschaft (ZBB) dated 6/2004, p. 445 (in collaboration with Margret Böckel)
Antidumping und Ursprungsregime – Das Schiedsverfahren im MERCOSUR wird zu einer festen Größe [Antidumping and original regime – arbitration proceedings in MERCOSUR become firmly established]
EuZW dated 11/2002, p. 329 (in collaboration with Peter Bischoff-Everding)
Antidumping no MERCOSUL: O Quarto Laudo Arbitral [Anti-dumping in MERCOSUR The Fourth Arbitral Award]
Revista de Direito Bancário, do Mercado de Capitais e da Arbitragem, ano 5. No. 15 (Jan. - March) dated 2002, p. 339 (in collaboration with Rafael Benke)
Antidumping no MERCOSUL
Boletín Latinoamericano de Competencia dated 2001, p. 24
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Oppenhoff & Partner has advised the CCE Group on the realisation of the 87 MWp solar park "La Huella" in northern Chile. Oppenhoff advised on the contracts for the construction, operation and maintenance of the solar park (EPC and O&M contracts) and supported the negotiations with the contractor via its Latin America Desk.