Dr. Manfred Balz LLM (Harvard)

Client turn to Manfred Balz for counsel in corporate, M&A, restructuring, and compliance matters. Manfred offers clients a rich experience advising on international commercial, data privacy and security, corporate, and bankruptcy law. His previous work experience includes serving as the General Counsel of Telekom and Treuhandanstalt in the years following German reunification. Manfred also worked at the Federal Ministry of Justice, where he focused on the EU harmonization of corporate law, and specifically the bankruptcy law reform.

• "Recommended Lawyer" in the areas of Corporate, M&A, and Restructuring - Legal 500 Deutschland
• Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz)
• Ministerialrat a.D.
• International Insolvency Institute (III), Outstanding Contribution Award
• Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy, Class VIIII
• Honorary member of INSOL International
• Honorary member of Richard von Weizsäcker Inn of Honor Society PhiDeltaPhi 

• University of Tübingen, PhD in Law
• Harvard Law School, LLM
• German Research Foundation
  Fellow, research period in Saint Petersburg/Moscow, sowj. economic, patent and technology law
• Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law
  Research Assistant, Hamburg
• Second State Law Examination (bar exam)
  Stuttgart
• First State Law Examination
  Tübingen
• Universities of Munich and Tübingen
  Law and Russian

• Cologne, Germany
• Berlin, Germany
• Nuremberg, Germany

• German
• English
• French
• Russian

• Member of the Board of Trustees of the German-Russian Forum Association
• Member of International Insolvency Institute (III)
• Chairman of the European Council Committee on Bankruptcy Member of the Management Board of Deutsche Telekom AG, in charge of Privacy, Legal, and Compliance.
• Research periods in Harvard and Saint Petersburg/Moscow