Dr. Ernst Giese

2009 - Opening a branch office of Giese & Partner in Bratislava, Slovakia

2000 - Founding partner and managing director of Giese & Partner in Prague, Czech Republic

1997 - Founder and managing director of Prague branch of the Frankfurt association Schürmann & Partner (predecessor of Giese & Partner)

1995 - Doctoral degree from the School of Law at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (Dr. jur.)

Study at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and University of Montpellier, France (Licencié en droit)

• Advisor for numerous national and international companies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

• Special expertise in agricultural enterprises in their acquisition and management

• Regular advisor to insolvency practitioners, creditors form Germany, Austria, UK and other countries in respect to restructuring and insolvency proceedings

• Appointed Vice Chair of Subcommittees of the Insolvency Section of the IBA (International Bar Association)

• Yearly ranked by Who’s Who Legal as leading practitioner in the field of insolvency law in the Czech Republic

• Registered arbitrator at the DIS (The German Arbitration Institute)Registered in the list of arbitrators of the Arbitration Court attached to the Czech Chamber of Commerce and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic

• Founder and president of the DAV Tschechien since 2018

• Elected Arbitrator of German-Czech Chamber of Industry and Commerce

• Arbitrator with ICC Germany and Czech Republic

• Lectures on constitutional, corporate and labour law at the law faculty of Charles University in Prague

• Ernst Giese was ranked by The Legal 500 as "Recommended Lawyer" in the Czech Republic in the field of Real estate and construction

• DAV - German Bar Association (admitted since 1995)

• ČAK - Czech Bar Association (admitted since 1997)

• SAK - Slovak Bar Association (admitted since 2009)

• DIS - The German Arbitration Institute (association for the promotion of national and international arbitration)

• ICC Germany (German national committee of the International Chamber of Commerce)

• IBA - International Bar Association

• INSOL Europe - European organisation of professionals who specialise in insolvency, business reconstruction and recovery

• III - International Insolvency Institute

• UIA - Union Internationale de Avocat

• Institut für Erbrecht - The association of inheritance law specialists

Country editor of the Handbook for Business Law in Eastern Europe (Handbuch für Wirtschaftsrecht in Osteuropa) for the Czech Republic

Co-author of the German translation of the Czech Civil Law Code incl. commentary

Münchener Kommentar zur Insolvenzordnung (Munich Commentary on the Insolvency Code) - co-author of the section on the Czech and Slovak Insolvency Code (regular update)

Author of the book "Zajištění závazků v ČR" (Loan Securities in the Czech Republic), published by C.H. Beck Publishing

Co-Author of the book "Odborné německo-české právnické názvosloví " (German-Czech Legal Terminology), published by C.H. Beck Publishing

Co-Author of the book “Kreditsicherheiten und Insolvenzverfahren in der Tschechischen Republik” (Loan Securities and Insolvency Proceedings in the Czech Republic), Giese & Partner, 2009