Dr Philipp Roebers

Philipp specialises in corporate law advice in the context of national and international mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, joint ventures as well as in advising especially large listed companies on corporate law, in particular on stock corporation, group and capital market law, on corporate governance issues and general meeting support. Moreover, as a member of our ESG working group, he is involved in ESG-related M&A/corporate matters and supports clients in the necessary transformation processes.

Work highlights

• HHLA: advising the sale of a strategic minority stake in HHLA Container Tollerort GmbH (CTT), a wholly owned subsidiary of HHLA, to Cosco Shipping Ports Limited.
• STADA: advising on the acquisition of various consumer health brands from Sanofi to expand its portfolio in European markets including Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Spain, the UK and Sweden.
• Thyssen’sche Handelsgesellschaft: advising all shareholders on the sale of their shares in PROGAS Group, one of the leading liquefied natural gas distribution companies in Germany.

Philipp has been working at Linklaters since 2017 and was appointed associate in 2022.

He has worked at Linklaters since 2017, first as a research assistant while completing his doctorate and then as a trainee lawyer. During this time, he also worked in the Linklaters office in Singapore.

Philipp studied at the University of Cologne and finished his First and Second Legal State Examination with honours. He also holds a Juris Doctor from the Ruhr-University of Bochum. During his legal clerkship, he worked for Linklaters in Singapore.

Philipp's most recent publications include the following:

• "Environmental Shareholder Activism: Shareholder influence with regard to the enforcement of ESG and sustainability issues" - in: Der Betrieb 02 2024, 27-29 (together with Dr Tim Johannsen-Roth and Dr Arne Kießling).
• "Der Leiter der Hauptversammlung in der Aktiengesellschaft – unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Rechtsstellung, Abberufung und Haftung", dissertation 2023.

• Zur Wirksamkeit der Wahl eines Aufsichtsratsmitglieds trotz Abweichung des Wahlvorschlags vom DCGK“ – in: EWiR 2019, 137 (jointly with Dr. Arne Kießling – publication on the Effectiveness of the Election of a Supervisory Board Member Notwithstanding a Deviation of the Nomination Proposal from the German Corporate Governance Code).