Dr. Jörn-Ahrend Witt

Partner
Attorney-at-Law
Jörn-Ahrend Witt advises clients on corporate law as well as on transactions and restructurings.

Jörn-Ahrend Witt advises founders, entrepreneurs, investors, as well as companies and groups of companies from Germany and abroad. He advises on all aspects of corporate law, in particular on restructurings and corporate disputes. In addition, Jörn-Ahrend Witt advises on business succession, the acquisition and disposal of companies and shareholdings, and the establishment of joint ventures as well as company-related commercial contractual matters in connection therewith. Before joining honert, Jörn-Ahrend Witt worked at Hengeler Mueller in Dusseldorf and Frankfurt, and at Macfarlanes LLP in London, in the fields of corporate law, M&A and private equity. Jörn-Ahrend Witt is married and has two children.

  • since 2011 honert
  • 2009-2010 Macfarlanes LLP, London
  • 2006-2011 Hengeler Mueller, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt
  • 2007 Doctorate (Dr. jur.) at the University of Hamburg
  • 2005 Admission to the bar
  • 2004 Second state law examination
  • 2001-2002 Position at a medium-sized corporate group from France
  • 2001 First state law examination
  • 1994-2000 Studies of law at the Universities of Hamburg and Montesquieu Bordeaux IV
  • 1992-1994 Apprenticeship in wholesale and foreign trade (Focus: Foreign Trade) at Wilhelm E. H. Biesterfeld, Hamburg
The Offering of Shares in a Cross-Border Takeover
WITT/LACKUM/MEYER, ECFR 2008, 101 ff.
Obligations and Control of Flag States – Developments and Perspectives in International Law and EU Law
WITT, Lit-Verlag, Berlin, 2007
WTO: Reform of the dispute settlement mechanism
WITT, RIW 2000, 691 ff.