Courses: Comparative Law, International Litigation, International Arbitration, Introduction to U.S. Law

As of April 1st, 2006, Clifford Larsen is UBS Professor of Law at the Bucerius Law School and the new Dean for the Master of Law and Business program. He is responsible for the legal curriculum of the Master's Program. Professor Larsen studied at Tulane University. Before graduating from Tulane in 1980, Professor Larsen studied as a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University and as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar for one year at the Universität Hamburg. During his studies at Tulane University School of Law, he was chosen for a Cecil Rhodes Scholarship for three years of study at Oxford University.

After completing his Master’s Degree there, Professor Larsen completed his law studies at the University of Virginia. After graduation and becoming a member of both the New York and Louisiana bars, his interest in international and comparative law led him to practice at the New York office of White & Case. In 1991, he moved to S.G. Archibald, a long-established Paris firm. During his work in Paris, he was admitted to French practice as avocat à la cour de Paris. He also began teaching part-time, both in summer programs for U.S. law schools and at the Université de Paris X (Nanterre).

In 1993, Larsen received an offer of a professorship from Washington & Lee University. In his 13 years there, he published a number of articles, in German and English, primarily in the areas of arbitration and comparative law, became a full professor, and was named Director of International Legal Studies Programs. He started exchange programs with four foreign universities (including the Bucerius Law School) and was founding director of the school’s LL.M. program. As well as teaching in Mexico and frequently in Cologne for the University of California, he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar and Commerzbank Visiting Professor of Law at the Bucerius Law School, during which time he taught in English in the International Program and in German in the LL.B. curriculum.

Course: Foundations of Investments

Markus Rudolf is a full Dresdner Bank Professor Finance at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and is responsible for the business & management curriculum of the Master's Program. He is appointed visiting professor at the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien. He earned his Ph.D. degree in fall 1994 and his habilitation degree in May 1999, both at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He worked as a visiting scholar at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, at the Kellogg Business School in Evanston, Illinois, among others. His recent publications focus on the valuation of growth companies, on surplus management, and on term structure modeling. He is academic director of the „Campus for Finance New Year´s Conference“. Furthermore, he is member of the editorial board of the journal "Financial Markets and Portfolio Management" and academic director of the annual conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research.

Course: Data Governance

Steven B. Adler is Director of IBM's Data Governance Solutions and a recognized authority and innovator on Data Governance, security, privacy, operational risk management, and business process transformation. 

Steven B. Adler developed the patented Enterprise Privacy Architecture, and invented the world’s first Internet Insurance program.  He is frequently quoted in European and American press articles in trade journals, magazines, and newspapers and has contributed to many publications. Among others, Steven B. Adler serves on the Board of Directors of the International Security Trust and Privacy Alliance, the NASCIO Security & Privacy Committee, the Carnegie Mellon Privacy Lab, NCSU Privacy Place, Global Forum Steering Committee.

Mr. Adler is 

• Chairman of the IBM Data Governance Council, an international leadership group of 50 C-Level Executives working together to design and evaluate comprehensive data governance solutions.
• Director of IBM Data Governance Solutions
• Adjunct Professor at the Stern School of Business, New York University

Courses: Introduction to Intellectual Property Law, Copyright Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution: Mediation, Master's Thesis Preparation Course

Jo Beatrix Aschenbrenner is Assistant Professor of Law in the Bucerius/WHU Master of Law and Business Program, Academic Advisor for executive education at Bucerius Law School as well as Lawyer and Mediator. She studied law at the Universities of Freiburg, Geneva and Munich from 1991 until 1996 and worked for several years at the Institute of International and European Law, University of Munich. After finishing her law degree (Erstes Staatsexamen) in 1997, she obtained her Master of Law in Florence (European Union Law, Prof. Philip Alston) in 1998 and a year later her Doctor of Law (European Union Law, Prof. Dr. Bruno Simma) in Munich. She passed the bar exam in Munich and subsequently practised law at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Munich as a member of the IP/IT Practice Group in 2000 and 2001. During this time she counselled on various aspects of intellectual property and took court actions. Jo Beatrix Aschenbrenner has been working at Bucerius Law School since November 2002. In her function as Head of Postgraduate Programs and later CEO of Bucerius Education GmbH, she initiated and expanded the Law School's executive training programs as a for profit enterprise. In addition, she continuously taught courses on Intellectual Property Law, Conflict Resolution and Communication Skills, European Union Law and German Civil Law at Bucerius. She also conducted specific inhouse training courses in Mediation to Bucerius employees. Her primary field of research is Alternative Dispute Resolution including Communication Skills as well as Intellectual Property Law.

Course: Comparative Tort Law

Stathis Banakas is a Reader in Law. In the Autumn Semester 2008/09 he is on study leave at the European University Institute in Florence, where he is a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, working on a research project ‘Global Justice and Private Law’. He has a Law Degree ("Ptycheion Nomikis") from the University of Athens, Greece, and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, England. He is an Attorney at Law (Dikigoros), member of the Athens Bar. He teaches Tort, Jurisprudence and Comparative Law, and an LL.M. course Harmonisation of European Private Law. He currently is also Adjunct Professor of Comparative Law at the London Programme of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, invited Professor at the French Law Faculties of Bordeaux ,Pau and Savoie, Professor of Comparative Law at the International Faculty of Comparative Law, Strasbourg, the Faculty of Law of the School of Business Studies (ESADE), University Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and the University of Luzern in Switzerland. He has held numerous visiting appointments in the past at Universities in several European countries, North Africa and the USA. In 2002, he was Visiting professor at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne. Dr. Banakas is a member of the International Academy of Comparative law (Common Law Section) and English law editor of the venerable Italian Law Journal 'Rivista di Diritto Civile'. He has directed several international projects of Academic Research Collaboration with Universities in other European countries, funded by foreign national Governments and the British Council, and regularly represents the UK in European Working Groups on Harmonisation of European Tort law.

Course: International Capital Markets

Okko Hendrik Behrends is a German Rechtsanwalt and partner in the Frankfurt office of Allen & Overy LLP where he is the head of the ICM (International Capital Markets) department. His practice covers all aspects of capital markets transactions (including debt, equity, structured product, derivatives, securitisation and regulatory issues). He is also a lecturer at the Institute for Law and Finance of the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University in Frankfurt.

Course: Comparative Intellectual Property Law

Dana Beldiman is a partner at Caroll, Burdick & McDonough LLP in San Francisco, California. Other professional affiliations include serving as an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University, School of Law, as a visiting professor at the Riga Graduate School of Law in Riga, Latvia, as Honorary Consul General for Romania, and as Honorary Vice Dean of the San Francisco Consular Corps. Ms. Beldiman studied international business relations at the Academy of Economic Sciences, Bucharest, Romania before completing her M.A. in International Studies at the University of Bucharest. She received her J.D. afterward from the Hastings College of the Law, University of California before completing an LL.M. in Intellectual Property at Santa Clara University, School of Law.

Course: International Banking and Capital Markets

Cathy Bell-Walker is a partner in Allen & Overy LLP. She is an English solicitor and has lead the English law banking practice in Germany since 2002. She has extensive experience of acting for senior and junior finance providers and financial investors in real estate finance and leveraged finance transactions on both German domestic and European cross-border transactions. She speaks fluent English and German and has been based in Frankfurt since 1999.

Course: International Trade Law

Tobias Bender is a lawyer with „Graf von Westphalen”, a leading German law firm in international trade law located in Hamburg. He studied law at University of Hamburg (1997-2001) with a scholarship from “Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst” – the scholarship program for talented students of the Protestant Church in Germany. From 2001 to 2005, Bender worked as a research and teaching assistant to Professor Dr. Hilf at University of Hamburg and at Bucerius Law School. In 2002, he was a research fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law (Georgetown University, Washington). He has been teaching German administrative law and WTO law in Hamburg and throughout China. Mr. Bender publishes on EC law and WTO law and contributed several chapters to a German WTO textbook. His doctoral thesis deals with issues of trade and environment and consumer protection in WTO law.

Course: Corporate Governance

Klaus Brockhoff, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., honorary professor of WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Dean of WHU from 1999-2004, Head of the Chair for Corporate Management at the same University, previously Director of the Institute for Technology and Innovation Management and the Institute for Business Administration at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel. Member of Supervisory Boards of several scientific Organizations and Institutions. Publication of approx. 270 articles and 20 books.

Course: Foundations of Economic Policy

Matthias Busse is Head of the Research Programme Trade and Development at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI). Before joining the Hamburg Institute, Dr. Busse worked as an economist and speech writer at the German Federal Chancellery, Bonn, and as a management consultant. He received his Ph.D. degree in economics in 1997 and his habilitation degree in economics in 2005, both at the University of Hamburg. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, Adelaide University (Australia), where he also taught international economics, and the World Bank in Washington, DC.

Course: Comparative Venture Capital Law

Marcus Cole is William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.  Professor Cole received a B.S. in 1989 from Cornell University and a J.D. in 1993 from Northwestern University, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business. Professor Cole served as Law Clerk to Judge Morris Sheppard Arnold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and practiced law with the Chicago law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt. He joined the faculty at Stanford in 1997, where he teaches bankruptcy, contracts, venture capital, and other commercial law courses. Professor Cole has published articles on various topics ranging from bankruptcy law to the law and economics of venture capital investment. Professor Cole has also filed briefs as amicus curiae in bankruptcy and school voucher cases, is a member of the editorial board of the Cato Supreme Court Review, published by the Cato Institute, and frequently serves as a consultant on director and officer liability with regard to “zone of insolvency” issues.

Course: Trademark Law

Yvonne Draheim is counsel in the Hamburg Lovells Office. She studied law at the University of Hamburg and graduated in 1994 ("Erstes Staatsexamen"). Her focus was laid on commercial and corporate law, already including the fields of trademark and cartel law. In 1995/1996, she continued with Master studies at the University of Stellenbosch/South Africa where she graduated in 1995 ("Master of Laws"). 

From the beginning, she has been specialized in all kinds of non-technical IP work, mainly trademark law (litigation in particular), but also in design rights, domain names, copyright and unfair competition law. In the course of her high-end litigation work, she has constantly worked for renowned national and international clients, for example, Philips.  

Yvonne Draheim has constantly published (nationally and internationally) articles on up-to-date questions of IP law, e.g. on new kinds of trademarks (she was involved in registering the first haptical trademark in the world, the word "Underberg" in Braille), such as abstract color and color combination marks as well as move marks and on trademark portfolio strategy. She is also experienced in teaching IP law at various occasions. Yvonne Draheim is a member of the German Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and Copyright.

Course: Corporate Finance

Wolfgang Drobetz is a full professor of corporate finance and ship finance at the University of Hamburg. He earned his Ph.D. degree in finance at the University of St. Gallen in fall 2000 and his habilitation degree at the University of Basel in May 2006. His research interests are in the areas of corporate finance, asset pricing, and asset management. He served as chairman of the program committee of the annual conference of the European Financial Management Association (EFMA) in 2004 and was appointed as president of the society in 2005. Prof. Drobetz is a member of the editorial board of the “European Journal of Finance” and the journal “Financial Markets and Portfolio Management”.

Course: Strategic Intellectual Property Management

Holger Ernst is Professor of Business Administration, particularly for technology and innovation management, director of the center for entrepreneurship and director of the biopharma management center (BMC) at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany. He studied Business Administration at the University of Kiel, Germany and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A. He received a degree in Business Administration (1992) and his Ph.D. (1996) from the University of Kiel. His main research interests lie in the fields of technology and innovation management, intellectual property management, new product development, entrepreneurship and E-Business. He has published articles in leading US journals in this field such as Journal of Engineering and Technology Management and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and European journals such as International Journal of Management Reviews, Research Policy, R&D Management, Technovation, Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft and Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung. He consults a variety of private and public European organizations in the area of technology, patent and innovation management. He runs the innovation success panel which identifies and benchmarks success factors of new product development in many international companies. He has developed a software which can be used to analyze patent data for various applications in strategic technology management. He teaches regularly in the WHU executive programs, e.g. the WHU-Kellogg Executive MBA Program, the Carnegie Mellon Program, the South Carolina Program, the Melbourne Business School Program and the Merck University.

Course: International Trade Relations

Professor Michael Frenkel is Dean of WHU and has been Professor of Economics at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, since 1993. More recently, he has also served as Director of the Center for European Studies (CEUS) at WHU. He received his diploma degree in economics and his doctoral degree from the University of Mainz, Germany. His extensive international experience stems from working for several years with the International Monetary Fund and from visiting positions he held with, among others, Harvard University Summer School, the University of Michigan Business School, Georgetown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Emory University, and Brandeis University. For a number of years, he served as Associate Dean of International Programs and built up an extensive network of partner universities around the world making the WHU the German business school with the biggest international student exchange network. Since a number of years, he has also been very active in accreditation institutions and served on different accreditation teams for EQUIS and the AACSB.

Course: International Legal English, Negotiation Workshop, Presentation Workshop

Michael Friedman received an A.B. in Economics (magna cum laude) from the University of Southern California and subsequently studied law at the Boalt Hall School of Law on the University of California at Berkeley. He received his Juris Doctor in 1993 and became of a member of the California State Bar in 1994. Mr. Friedman practiced law as a senior attorney and litigator in the San Francisco Bay area with the Contra Costa County Office of the Public Defender. In addition to having presented at professional development and legal education programs, his teaching background includes employment as an instructor with the Boalt Hall Academic Support Program and the Council on Legal Educational Opportunity (CLEO). He has lived in Hamburg since 2004 and works as a research associate/language editor at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. He has also served as an oral assessor for both the Cambridge International Legal English exam and the Bucerius Law School’s Fachspezifische Fremdsprache Prüfung for English.

Course: International Banking Transactions

Christof Fritzen is a retired Managing Director of Deutsche Bank AG where he worked in various positions in Investment Banking, Risk Management and as head of the office of the Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

He worked for six years in the New York and Brussels offices of the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.  He received his legal education at the universities of Freiburg and Wuerzburg in Germany and at Columbia Law School, New York, specializing in international business law.

Since 2002 Christof Fritzen has been a visiting Professor at the Law School of Virginia University, Charlottesville, Va., teaching courses in International Banking Law and Comparative Constitutional Law. He serves as a member of the Supervisory Board of REpower Systems AG, Hamburg. The Sovereign Military and Hospitaller Order of Malta has appointed Christof Fritzen as its ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Course: Foundations of Financial Reporting

Rolf Uwe Fülbier is full Professor of Accounting at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management (till September 2008) and at University of Bayreuth (from October 2008). After working for Deutsche Bank AG in Germany and Indonesia (Jakarta branch) he studied business administration at the University of Cologne and earned his Ph.D. degree (Dr. rer. pol.) four years later, in spring 1998, at the University of Muenster. His habilitation degree was conferred in June 2005 by the Ruhr-University of Bochum. Since 2005 Rolf Uwe Fülbier has been an appointed tax consultant (Steuerberater). His field of research covers all aspects of financial accounting, especially international accounting (IFRS, US-GAAP). He was several times awarded as WHU best teacher. Moreover, he has been involved in several teaching programs of leading German and European Universities, in various research projects, and also in public and private standard setting initiatives, especially on behalf of the German Accounting Standards Board.

Course: Financial Intermediation

Hans Geiger joined Credit Suisse in 1970, where he stayed until 1996. Within this time he was head of accounting and international credit business followed by ten years as a member of the executive board. In 1997 Geiger became a banking professor at the University of Zurich. Since then he was chairman of board of directors of Telekurs Holding (1997-2000) and vice-chairman of the board of directors of Bank Vontobel (1998 – 2004). His areas of research and teaching are payment systems/clearing/settlement, credit business, operational risk management, banking regulation, private banking. He is a member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee as well as member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Financial Transformation. He was member of the board of trustees of the Swiss Banking School (1997-2005). From 2002 to 2005 he was a member of the governmental commission on integrated financial supervision in Switzerland. He is a member of the Swiss Finance Institute.

Course: International Mergers & Acquisitions

James J. Hanks, Jr. is a partner with the 600-lawyer firm of Venable LLP, with offices in Baltimore, New York, Los Angeles and Washington. He received his A.B. from Princeton University; his LL.B. from the University of Maryland Law School, where he was an editor of the Maryland Law Review; and his LL.M. from Harvard Law School. After receiving his LL.B., he was law clerk to Judge Charles Fahy of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. 

In private practice, Mr. Hanks represents publicly- and privately-held corporations and other entities in a wide variety of general corporate law and governance matters, securities offerings and other capital markets transactions. Mr. Hanks has advised buyers or sellers in more than 250 mergers or acquisitions, including many valued at more than one billion dollars. He has also represented parties in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other transactions. Mr. Hanks frequently serves as independent counsel to boards of directors and board committees of major U.S. corporations and as an expert witness in connection with capital transactions, stockholder litigation, conflicts of interest and corporate governance issues. Mr. Hanks also advises governments on revision of their corporate and securities laws.

Mr. Hanks is Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell and Northwestern Law Schools, where he has taught courses in securities regulation, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance.  He has also taught classes in corporation law at various law schools in the United States and the Republic of South Africa and at the Institute of Law in Beijing. During the Fall, 2003, he was Commerzbank Visiting Professor of Law at Bucerius Law School, and taught there again in the Fall, 2005 and 2007. This is his second year on the faculty of the Master's of Law and Business program. Mr. Hanks appears in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America in three categories: Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Corporate Law, and Mergers and Acquisitions Law.

Courses: EU Law II

Dr. Lothar Harings is a partner in the law firm Graf von Westphalen. He is based in the Hamburg and Brussels offices of the firm. He specialises in EU law with a particular focus on customs law, antidumping-law and EC-state-aid-law. Dr. Harings regularly represents clients in matters of European law before the national courts and the European Court of Justice.

Dr. Harings studied law at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Heidelberg. At the university of Heidelberg, he worked at the Institute for German and European Administrative Law and graduated as a doctor of laws. Dr. Harings is a member of the Advisory board of the Center for Foreign Trade Law, and a member of the European Forum for External Trade, Excise and Customs.

Course: International Conflict of Laws

Peter Hay was Alumni Distinguished Professor of Law and dean at the University of Illinois before accepting the appointment as a chaired professor at Emory in 1991, which he continues to hold. Since 1975 he has been an honorary professor at the University of Freiburg in Germany. From 1994 to 2000 he held, concurrently with his Emory appointment, the chair for Civil Law, Foreign and International Private Law, and Comparative Law at the University of Dresden, Germany, where he also served as dean of its law faculty from 1997 to 2000. In 1989, he received the research prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. He is an elected titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, a member of the American Law Institute, and a member of the American Academy of Foreign Law. Dean Hay's research has focused on the fields of conflict of laws, European Community law, comparative law, contracts and sales law.

L.Q.C. Lamar Professor of Law. B.A., J.D., University of Michigan, 1958

Course: Foundations of Cost Accounting

Bernhard Hirsch is full professor for Management Accounting at the Universität der Bundeswehr in Munich. Before he was assistant professor of Management accounting at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar. He holds a Habilitation degree (Dr. rer. pol. habil.) from WHU, a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.) in Economics from Witten/Herdecke University and a Master-Diploma in Business Administration from Eichstaett Catholic University. In 2005, Bernhard Hirsch was visiting scholar at the Accounting Department of the University of Texas at Austin. Bernhard Hirsch collected practical experience in Management Accounting as a Managing Director of the Center for Controlling & Management at WHU where companies like Bayer, Deutsche Post, Deutsche Telekom or Deutsche Lufthansa work together with researchers on management accounting topics. He has teaching experience in management accounting, cost accounting, corporate planning and strategic decision making.

Course: Managerial Leadership

Martin Högl (Ph.D. University of Karlsruhe, Germany; Habilitation, Technical University of Berlin, Germany) is Professor at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, where he holds the Chair of Leadership and Human Resource Management. Before joining WHU, Prof. Högl served on the faculties of Washington State University (USA) and Bocconi University (Milan, Italy). He has conducted research projects with major firms in the US and Europe. His research interests include leadership and collaboration in organizations, management of R&D personnel, knowledge creation in innovation processes, and the management of geographically dispersed collaboration. He has published in leading international journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Decision Sciences, and others.

Course: Introduction to Strategic Management, Corporate Strategy

Thomas Hutzschenreuter is Professor and the Dietmar Hopp endowed Chair of Corporate Strategy and Electronic Media Management at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar (Germany). He studied Business Administration at the University of Giessen. He received his first and second doctoral degree (Habilitation) from the Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL). Furthermore, he was visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management and Professor of International Management at Boston University.

His primary research interests are Corporate Growth and Performance, Internationalization, Diversification, and Strategy Processes. Among other activities, he is member of the Editorial Board of the European Management Review (EMR). Recently, he co-edited the Focused Issue of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) “Internationalization – Positions, Paths, and Processes”.

Professor Hutzschenreuter is Chair of the Annual Conference on Corporate Strategy (ACCS) and academic advisor for the McKinsey & Company’s initiative for profitable growth of medium-sized companies in Germany. He has published several articles in highly ranked academic journals as well as several case studies and books. He teaches in MBA programs, Executive MBA programs and firm specific programs.

Course: Foundations of Marketing

Ove Jensen is a Professor of Marketing and the Chair of Business-to-Business Marketing at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar (Germany). He is the first former WHU student who has returned to the WHU as an academic chair. He also studied business administration at Emory University (Goizueta Business School), in Atlanta, and at EDHEC in Nice, France. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Mannheim. Before rejoining the WHU, he served as an Assistant Professor of Marketing on the faculty of Mannheim University, Germany.

He has worked and published extensively on price management, value selling, service management, key account management, customer relationship management, sales control, marketing productivity, design of the marketing-sales-service-organization and management of interfaces. His research has won several awards, among which the Jagdish N. Sheth Award for the best paper of the year 2000 in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the best paper award in the marketing strategy track of the 2006 American Marketing Association’s Summer Educators’ Conference, and two dissertation awards.

Before his academic career, he worked as a marketing and sales consultant, eventually as the managing director of consulting firm Prof. Homburg & Partners. Today, he supports companies through executive education, executive mentoring, and project mentoring. He works and has worked for companies such as 3M, BASF, Bayer, Cognis, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank, Evonik, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, Henkel, Lafarge und Saint-Gobain.

Course: Investment Banking

Stefan Jentzsch was Chief Executive of Dresdner Kleinwort and a member of Dresdner Bank’s Board of Managing Directors with responsibility for Investment Banking. He joined Dresdner Kleinwort in November 2005, having previously worked at HypoVereinsbank from 2001-2005, where he was a Board Member responsible for Corporate & Investment Banking. In 1987 he joined Goldman Sachs, working in Frankfurt, London and New York in both corporate finance and capital markets roles where he in 1998 became resident Partner. Stefan Jentzsch is a member of the supervisory boards of Premiere AG and Adidas AG. He did his undergraduate studies in business administration and law at the University of Cologne and his MBA at the University of St Gallen.

Course: Decision Theory

Peter Jost has been Professor of Organisation Theory at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management since 1994. Recently he has served as Dean of WHU. Since 2001 he has also been visiting professor at the Free University of Bolzano, Italy. He got his diploma degrees in mathematics and informatics and his doctoral degree in economics at the University of Bonn and his habilitation degree at the University of Basel. Professor Jost’s research interests are Managerial Economics, Theory of the Firm, Labour Economics, Economic Psychology, and Law & Economics. He is the author of textbooks on Strategic Conflict Management, Organization and Coordination and Motivation. He is also founder and chairman of the “German Economic Association of Business Administration” (GEABA).

Courses: Business Forms, Legal Aspects of Corporate Governance

Carsten Jungmann is Assistant Professor at the Chair for Business and Corporate Law of Dean Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Karsten Schmidt (Bucerius Law School). His primary field of research is insolvency law, corporate law (including corporate governance), commercial law, banking law and corporate finance. Dr. Jungmann studied law at the University of Bonn and at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland). At the University of Bonn, he worked at the Institute for Commercial and Business Law and graduated as a Doctor of Laws. Whilst a trainee solicitor, he worked, inter alia, with the international law firm Lovells and with HSH Nordbank and clerked for the President High Court Judge Dr. Buechel. After passing the bar exam at the High Court of Hamburg, he went to the USA and obtained a Master of Laws degree from Yale Law School. In addition, Dr. Jungmann holds the title Master of Science in Finance which he obtained from the University of Leicester (England). Recently, he has spent a year as Academic Visitor at the London School of Economics and was a Lecturer in Law at the University of Surrey (England). Dr. Jungmann has published numerous articles on corporate, banking and insolvency law in leading law journals.

Course: EU Law I

Jörn Axel Kämmerer, born 1965 in Braunschweig, holds the Chair of Public Law, International and European Law. Supported by the German National Merit Foundation, he studied law in Tübingen and at Aix-en-Provence, France, gaining the title of Maîtrise en droit (specialising in International Law) while also qualifying as a German lawyer.

In 1992 he served as parliamentary aid in constitutional legal matters at the State Assembly of Saxony, and was research fellow until 1995 under Prof. Dr. Dr. H.c. Graf Vitzthum in the Public Law Department at the University of Tübingen, where he completed his doctorate in law in 1993 (thesis: "The Antarctic and the Territorial and Environmental Protection Order of International Law"). After the second state examination in law he continued from 1995-2000 as research fellow at Tübingen University, completing his post-doctorate in July 2000 (thesis: "Privatization. Typology, Determinants, Legal Practice, Impacts"). His special areas of interest are Public Law, European Law and Public International Law.

Course: Commercial Instruments

Thomas Krebs read English and German law at the University of Kent at Canterbury, before going to Oxford to study for the postgraduate degree of Bachelor of Civil Law. He stayed at Oxford to complete a DPhil under Peter Birks, before then qualifying as a barrister. In 1999, he was invited to join the Law Faculty of University College London, where he spent four years as the Norton Rose Lecturer in Commercial Law. Since 2003, he has been the University Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. He continues to practice at the English Commercial Bar and is a member of a Chancery/Commercial Set of Chambers in Lincoln’s Inn. He spent the academic year 2007/08 as Hauser Global Law Fellow at New York University.

Course: Convention on the International Sale of Goods, International Litigation

Stefan Kröll is a lawyer in Cologne and one of the German national correspondents to UNCITRAL for arbitration and international commercial law. Admitted to the bar in 1997, he specializes in international commercial law and dispute resolution and sits regularly as an arbitrator in national and international cases (ICC, DIS, ad-hoc). Furthermore he has acted in several cases as appointing authority for the Permanent Court of Arbitration. He is member of the board of editors of the International Arbitration Law Review and the IHR (Internationales Handelsrecht – International Commercial Law). Dr. Kröll lectures regularly on international contract law, conflict of laws and dispute resolution for the University of California (Davis), the School of Arbitration at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (Queen Mary, University of London), the German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation (IRZ), and the Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungsakademien in Cologne and Düsseldorf. He is co-chairman of the DIS 40 (German Institution for Arbitration 40) and member of various other professional institutions.

Course: International Banking and Capital Markets

Stefan Kuhm, a German Rechtsanwalt, joined Allen & Overy LLP in 2004 after working with a leading German law firm and is a senior associate in the banking department of Allen & Overy. He gained broad experience in all aspects of debt financing and gained particular expertise in real estate, acquisition, leveraged and project financings as well as restructuring loans and granting of debts in stress scenarios. A substantial part of these transactions concerned major banks as well as private equity houses. He is fluent in German and English.

Course: International Tax Law

Florian Lechner is a tax partner of Linklaters LLP in Frankfurt. He completed his law studies at the University of Munich in 1998. He started to work at Oppenhoff & Rädler (now Linklaters) in Munich and moved to the Frankfurt office in 2003. In 2004, he worked for an international investment bank during a secondment. He has specialized experience in structuring of national and international mergers and acquisitions, tax oriented restructuring, acquisition financing and financial products.

Florian Lechner is a frequent lecturer at tax seminar, publishes articles in well-known tax journals and contributes to books regarding German taxation, e.g. “Die Unternehmensteuerreform 2008” published by C.H. Beck in 2007. 

Course: Data Governance

In 2005 Christa Menke-Südbeck was appointed Chief Data Protection Officer of Deutsche Bank AG. She joined Deutsche Bank Group as a Managing Director of GEFM (Gesellschaft fuer Finanzmarketing, later emagine gmbh) in 1996. In 2000 Ms. Menke-Südbeck joined Deutsche Bank AG and was appointed CIO Transaction & Booking Systems. She became CTO IT Risk Management in 2003.

Prior to joining Deutsche Bank Ms. Menke-Südbeck worked 8 years for BFG Bank as CIO/CTO and in management after 10 years in system engineering, consultancy in international projects, presales and sales with CA Consulting Associates (Softwarehouse) and Sperry Univac (Unisys).

Christa Menke-Südbeck holds a degree in Economics (focus banking and money market) from the University of Bochum. She passed a 12 month IT education and trainee programme with Sperry Univac.

Course: Business Ethics

Matthias Meyer is full professor for Management Control and Accounting at the Hamburg University of Technology. Before he was associate and assistant professor for Management Accounting at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar. He holds a Habilitation degree (Dr. oec. publ. habil.) from WHU and a PhD (Dr. oec. publ.) in Business Economics from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, where he worked at the Chair of Philosophy and Economics. The topic of his dissertation was the principal agent model. He received his Diplom-Kaufmann in Business Administration from Eichstaett Catholic University and a Master of Science in the Philosophy of Social Sciences from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2006 Matthias Meyer stayed as visiting scholar at the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS) at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. His practical background in Management Accounting is his former position as the Managing Director of the Center for Controlling & Management at WHU where companies like DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Telekom or Deutsche Lufthansa work together with researchers on management accounting topics. He has teaching experience in management accounting, cost accounting, corporate planning and strategic decision making, economic methodology and business ethics.

Course: Financial Innovation

Professor Matthias Muck is the holder of the DekaBank Chair of Financial Controlling at the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg. From 2003 until October 2006 he was an assistant Professor at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and thereby habilitated. He graduated from WHU in 2000 and earned a WHU doctorial degree in 2003. His research fields are derivatives pricing, term structure models, and risk management. He worked as a visiting scholar at the Rotman School of Business at University of Toronto in Canada. Furthermore, he is the academic director of the annual conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research.

Course: International Capital Markets

Edward Murray is a partner in the Derivatives and Structured Finance group in Allen & Overy LLP, advising leading financial institutions on derivatives and collateral issues and on structured credit and equity transactions.

Courses: Corporate Finance, Case Studies in Finance

Marisa Nöldeke is Assistant Professor of Finance at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Her research focuses on Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance and Capital Markets. She studied Economics and Business Administration (with the major subject “Finance”) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and the Fisher College of Business, Ohio, USA. Upon graduating with a Master’s Degree in Finance (summa cum laude) in November 2003, she progressed on an academic path as a PhD student and research assistant at the Swiss Banking Institute, University of Zurich. She spent parts of her PhD studies as a Visiting Scholar at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University. Marisa Nöldeke attained her doctorate degree (summa cum laude) in November 2006. She has been teaching regularly in various executive programs (e.g. the Executive Program and Advanced Executive Program of the Swiss Finance Institute, the Swiss Training Center for Investment Professionals, and others) besides teaching in the graduate and undergraduate programs of the University of Zurich.

Course: Securities Regulations

Dr. Martin Oltmanns is partner at Flick Gocke Schaumburg in Berlin. His practice focuses on all aspects of corporate finance and M&A work. Dr. Oltmanns regularly advises companies in public take-overs, in the issuance of securities and with regard to their disclosure obligations. Born in 1968, Dr. Oltmanns has received his legal education at the University of Bonn (JD 1991, PhD 2001) and at the University of Chicago (LL.M. 1992). Dr. Oltmanns has practiced in New York, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Berlin.

Course: Competition/Antitrust Law

Dr. Tim Reher is partner at the law firm CMS Hasche Sigle. He is active in Competition Law and Intellectual Property. Dr. Reher has extensive experience both in contentious and non-contentious issues. He advises clients across a wide range of industry sectors including consumer products, medical devices and pharmaceuticals, fuel, sport and media. Dr. Reher is a graduate of University of Konstanz and University of Oxford. He is named as leading competition lawyer under 40 by JUVE handbook on German Commercial Law Firms 2007.

Course: International Taxation

Deborah Schanz is Professor of Taxation and Accounting at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management since August 2007.

Deborah Schanz completed her business studies in Hamburg, Newcastle (England) and Tübingen focusing on Taxation, Management Accounting and Control and International Accounting. In 2004 she finished her doctorate at the University of Tübingen. She completed her “Habilitation” in 2007 at the University of Graz (Austria) on the topic “Auswirkungen der Besteuerung auf Investitionsentscheidungen”. Prior to her studies she gained practical ex-perience as management consultant with Deloitte in Stuttgart.

Deborah Schanz publishes articles in different well-known refereed journals (zfbf, ZfB, DBW, RMS) as well as in practical journals. She received several awards for her publications including the Monograph Prize from the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) in 2006. Her areas of research comprise the influence of taxation on investment and financing decision-making, determination of taxable income and international taxation.

Course: Business Forms

Karsten Schmidt is President of the Bucerius Law School.
A doctorate in 1972 was followed in 1975/76 by a post-doctorate in Bonn in the subjects of civil law, commercial law, business law and civil procedural law.
Following a professorship in Göttingen (1976) he held a professorial chair at the University of Hamburg from 1977 to 1997 and was Director of the Departments of Commercial, Maritime and Economic Law. From 1997 to 2005 Karsten Schmidt was professor at the University of Bonn and Director of the Institute for Commercial and Business Law.

He is a member of the Joachim Jungius Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Hamburg, and the Academia Scientiarium et Artium Europaea, Salzburg, as well as Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, London. He is a corresponding member of the Academia Nacional de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales, Cordoba/Argentina and serves as a member of the academic board of the Institut für Wirtschaftsverfassung und Wettbewerb (FIW), Cologne.

Professor Schmidt served as vice-chairman and chairman of the Zivilrechtslehrervereinigung from 1987 to 1999 and was an assessor for the German Research Association from 1988 to 1996. He sits on the supervisory board and the Kuratorium of the Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius ZEIT Foundation, Hamburg. He is publisher and editor of the Zeitschrift für das gesamte Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht, joint publisher of the Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (ZIP), as well as sitting on the editorial board of the International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal. He has written textbooks on commercial and company law, as well as monographs, commentaries and numerous academic articles.

Course: Patent Law

Christian Stoll is partner in the Hamburg Lovells office. He studied law in Hamburg. After his bar exam he obtained a Master of Law degree at University of Notre Dame, London Law Center for International Legal Studies. Christian Stoll deals with intellectual property matters with particular focus on patents, trademarks, unfair competition and license agreements.  

His work includes the in-court and out-of-court representation in infringement proceedings dealing with patents, trademarks and designs before all German Courts, the German patent office and the Federal Patent Court, which also includes advising his clients in the pre-litigation phase and in the avoidance of potential IP conflicts. His work also includes the representation of clients in technology related unfair competition matters.  

Another focus of Christian Stoll's work is the advice and negotiation of license agreements regarding intellectual property rights.  

Christian Stoll advises and represents inter alia multiple international companies in the fields of engineering, telecommunications, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, and nutrition in patent infringement disputes, patent related matters, trademark infringement disputes and licensing matters.

Course: Labor and Employment Law

Since October 2004 Professor of Civil Law, Labor and Employment Law and Comparative Law at the University of Bonn. Between April 2001 and October 2004 professor at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg. Studied at the University of Cologne, becoming research assistant at the university’s Institute for Labor and Commercial Law. First State Examination, Graduation Dr. iur. with a book on industrial action, followed by Second State Examination, Graduation with LL.M. from Harvard Law School and admission to the New York bar. Post-doctoral thesis published on the Comparative Law of Damages („Wertende Schadensberechnung“). Subsequently special assistant to the Chairman of the Board of the Bertelsmann AG. Main fields of interests and research: Labor and Employment Law, Law of Social Security, European Law, Comparative Law.

Course: Supply Chain and Transportation Management

Professor Wagner holds the Chair of Logistics Management at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland. Prior he served on the faculty of WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany, and worked for 10 years as head of supply chain management for a Swiss-based technology group and as senior manager for an international top-management consulting firm. He obtained a MBA from Washington State University and a Ph.D. from the University of St. Gallen.

He has been a part-time lecturer for marketing, logistics, supply chain management and purchasing/supply management on the undergraduate, graduate and executive level at several schools, among others, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Bucerius Law School Hamburg, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Hamburg University of Technology, University of St. Gallen, Bundeswehr University Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, and Krasnoyarsk State University. In addition, he has consulted with and conducted executive training programs for leading companies and business associations.

His research interests include supply chain strategy, purchasing and supply management, interfirm relationships in industrial marketing channels, innovation in supply chains, and the management of logistics service firms. In 2001, he received the scientific award “Hans Ovelgönne” for outstanding scholarly research from the German Association of Materials Management, Purchasing and Logistics (BME). He is author and editor of eight books and nearly hundred book chapters and articles. He has published in the Journal of Business Logistics, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Research, and other journals. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Supply Chain Management as well as the Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management, and serves as Editorial Board Member and Reviewer for other leading journals.

Courses: Foundations of Microeconomics, Industrial Economics

Jürgen Weigand is Professor of Economics and Chair in Microeconomics and Industrial Organization at the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany. Professor Weigand received his masters, doctoral and post-doctoral degrees in Economics from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. In 1998/1999, he was a post-doctoral scholar at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, and at the Institute for Development Strategies in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University, Bloomington. In 1999/2000 Professor Weigand worked as a senior researcher for the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, The Hague, the economic think tank of the Dutch government.

Professor Weigand’ s expertise is on competitive strategy, the strategic positioning of firms as well as competition policy and corporate governance.

Course: General Management

Dr. Peter Witt is a Professor of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Dortmund. He was born in 1966 and holds a degree in economics from the University of Bonn. In 1992, he became a research and teaching assistant at WHU- Otto Beisheim School of Management - where he got his Ph.D. degree in business administration in 1996. He moved on to Humboldt University at Berlin to become assistant professor for business administration. He received his habilitation degree at Humboldt University in 2002. From 2002 to 2006, he served as the Otto Beisheim Professor of Entrepreneurship at WHU.

Professor Witt’s research interests are entrepreneurial finance, company valuation, and corporate governance. He has published in refereed academic journals like Management International Review, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Die Betriebswirtschaft, Kredit und Kapital, and Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft. He is the author of a book on the international competition of corporate governance systems and a coauthor of two books on the valuation and on the financing of growth companies.

Professor Witt has received the best teacher award in WHU’s diploma program in 1996 and the best teacher award in the Kellogg-WHU Executive MBA program in 2003.