Myriam Baars-Schilling is specialised in advising German and foreign clients on national and cross-border M&A transactions and joint venture projects. She also regularly assists international enterprises on group restructurings, reorganisation measures and other general questions of corporate law. She has particular expertise in the information technology and industrial sector.
The German business magazine WirtschaftsWoche lists her as a leading lawyer in the field of M&A.
Myriam Baars-Schilling is a partner at Oppenhoff. From 2005 to 2009 she was an associate at Allen & Overy LLP in Frankfurt and Düsseldorf. She studied law at the Universities of Trier and Bonn. During her legal training Myriam inter alia worked at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Cologne and Siemens AG in Munich. Within the scope of her secondment in 2008, Myriam worked for the central legal department of Evonik Industries AG, M&A division.
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Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 23
50668 Cologne
T +49 221 2091 210
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"Deutsche Tochter im internationalen Konzern – Rechtshandbuch für die Praxis“ [German subsidiaries of international groups – a practical legal handbook]
Munich 2019 (publisher)
"Bilanzgarantien in Unternehmenskaufverträgen" [Warranties for Financial Statements in Acquisition Agreements]
Kölner Schriften zum Wirtschaftsrecht (KSzW) 2016, 4 (in collaboration with Dr. Dr. h.c. Georg Maier-Reimer)
"Unzulässigkeit einer Beschwerde gegen Nichtaufnahme einer Gesellschafterliste nach Aufnahme einer inhaltsgleichen Liste" [Inadmissibility of an appeal against the non-inclusion of a list of shareholders after inclusion of a list with the identical content]
DER BETRIEB dated 23 July 2020, No. 29, p.1504 (in collaboration with Sebastian Gutmann)
"Ein Schnäppchen kann sich als Fehlkauf entpuppen" [A bargain can turn out to be a rip-off]
Börsenzeitung, Interview dated 04 July 2020
"M&A-Transaktionen im digitalen Zeitalter" [M&A transactions in the digital age]
LR dated 16 September 2019, pp. 129-132
Keep it secret!
Finance dated 12 March 2018 (in collaboration with Anna-Catharina von Girsewald)
"Aufklärungspflichtverletzung und Wissenszurechnung beim Unternehmenskauf" [Breach of the clarification duty and the imputation of knowledge in corporation acquisitions]
regarding Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf, judgement dated 16 June 2016 - I-6 U 20/15, DER BETRIEB, 14 October 2016 (in collaboration with Sarah Scharf)
"M&A in Innovationsbranchen- Der Teufel steckt im Detail" [M&A in innovation sectors – the Devil is in the detail]
M&A Review, 12/2016
"Daten(alpt)räume in M&A Transaktionen" [(Nightmarish) datarooms in M&A transactions]
Börsenzeitung 5 December 2015 (in collaboration with Dr. Jürgen Hartung)
"Tückische Patente" [Insidious patents]
FAZ 28 April 2015 (in collaboration with Dr. Marc Hilber)
"Bürgerbeteiligungsmodelle auf dem Prüfstand" [Public participation models under scrutiny]
Börsenzeitung 6 June 2015 (in collaboration with Sarah Scharf)
"Den Kritiker zum Freund und den Stromverbraucher zum Investor machen" [Befriending the critic and getting the electricity consumer to invest]
publisher’s supplement Börsenzeitung 13 May 2014
"Bei Übernahme von Start-ups sind komplexe Verträge kein Erfolgsgarant" [Complex contracts are no guarantee when taking over start-ups]
Börsenzeitung 30 November 2013
"Der Bürger als Investor" [Citizens as investors]
special supplement Energie & Umwelt [energy and environment] Börsenzeitung 6 July 2013
"Bürger ins Boot holen" [Getting citizens on board]
energy supplement FAZ 13 December 2012 (in collaboration with Dr. Peter Etzbach)
