Michael Weigel has represented German and international clients in complex arbitration and state court disputes in all areas of commercial law for over 30 years. His clients include business enterprises as well as financial service providers and professional service firms. In recent years, he has focused in particular on civil litigation in the wake of major white-collar crimes and professional liability matters.
He is listed in the branch handbooks Best Lawyers, Chambers, JUVE, Legal 500 and in the kanzleimonitor.de survey as a leading lawyer in the field of dispute resolution
Michael Weigel has been a member of the Board of the Frankfurt Bar Association for many years, a member of the representative assembly of the lawyers‘ pension scheme „Versorgungswerk der Rechtsanwälte“ in Hesse and Chairman of the ZPO/GVG Committee of the German Federal Bar Association.
Michael Weigel has been a partner at Oppenhoff since 2021. Prior thereto, he was a partner at a US law firm for 13 years and since 1989 has worked at Oppenhoff’s predecessor firms, most recently Linklaters. He studied law at the University of Frankfurt am Main.
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Code of Civil Procedure
ZPO dated February 2021, Co-Author, Code of Civil Procedure, 5th Edition, Nomos
Code of Civil Procedure
ZPO dated 2 January 2019, Book Chapter: §§511 to 541, Co-Author, Code of Civil Procedure, 4th Edition, Nomos
Wenn sich zwei streiten, freut sich der Drittstaat [When two quarrel, the third country rejoices]
Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel dated 29 April 2020
Zurück in die Zukunft - Analogisierung des elektronischen Fristenkalenders [Back to the future – converting the electronic deadline calendar into analogue form]
Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel dated 07 October 2019
Im Blickpunkt: Verjährungshemmung per Feststellungsklage [In focus: suspension of the limitation period by declaratory action]
Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel dated 6 March 2019
Geltendmachung von Schadensersatzansprüchen nach Kartellverstößen–BGH entscheidet über bislang ungeklärte Rechtsfragen [Assertion of damage claims after antitrust violations – German Federal Supreme Court rules on previously unresolved legal issues]
Advisory dated 12 June 2018
Brauchen Anwälte Die Musterfeststellungsklage? [Do lawyers need model declaratory actions?]
BRAK-Mitteilungen dated November 2017, Issue 5
Competition and Compliance Seminar, Arnold & Porter Seminar, Frankfurt, 26 September 2019
Aus der Krise zur Compliance: Ein Seminar zum Kartell- und Wettbewerbsrecht [From crisis to compliance: a seminar on antitrust and competition law], Arnold & Porter, Frankfurt, 30 November 2017