Dr. Sebastian S Schmitt
Attorney
Expertise
Brewery and Restaurant Law
Inheritance Law
Corporate Law / M&A
Commercial Law
Agent and Broker Law
Insurance Law
Insurance Agent Law
Contact
Assistant
Alina Nordhoff
CV
Born in Aachen in 1988
2026
Joined the firm
2025 – 2026
Admitted to the bar and worked at an international commercial law firm in the field of corporate law
2024 – 2025
Research assistant at a legal learning app
2021 – 2023
Legal clerkship in the district of the Hamm Higher Regional Court, with placements including an international commercial law firm in the field of antitrust law, the German Embassy in Riga, and the German Embassy in Valletta
2018 – 2019
Master’s degree at the University of Oxford
2014 – 2020
(Second) Degree in Economics and Law (BSc.) at the University of Münster
2014 – 2018
Research assistant and doctoral candidate at the University of Münster, Institute for International Business Law, Chair of Civil Law, Civil Procedure, and Corporate Law (Prof. Dr. Ingo Saenger)
Radical Termination Mechanisms in Corporate Law: Russian Roulette, Texas Shoot Out, and Co. from a Legal, Comparative Legal, and Economic Perspective (Mohr Siebeck 2020), funded by a printing grant from the Working Group on Economics and Law of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
2007 – 2014
Studied law at the University of Münster and the Université Paris Nanterre

