Oliver Waldburg

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Expertise

Banking & Finance, Restructuring

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Expertise

Dr Oliver Waldburg is an expert in banking and finance law as well as restructuring works. He is active for more than 20 years, 12 of which he was a partner in a magic circle firm.

He is a recognised legal expert with a wealth of experience. In banking / finance he offers deep and broad knowledge and experience in various special financing types, such as acquisition financing, real estate financing and corporate financing.

He has also managed structured financing for banks and companies, such as factoring and asset-based financing.

In restructurings, he supported bank consortia and corporate groups in near-insolvency restructurings. He has supported several creditors in insolvency proceedings and buyers of assets from insolvency estates.

Oliver is listed as a legal expert at Best Lawyers.

Oliver Advises

  • Banking Finance
    • Acquisition finance
    • Real estate financings
    • Corporate financing
    • Security agreements (including crypto assets)
    • Intercreditor Arrangements
    • Trust agreements
    • Cash Pooling
    • Factoring
    • Asset finance
    • NPLs
  • Restructuring
    • Bridging and restructuring loans
    • Advising Steering committees
    • Advising corporates
    • Advising managing directors
    • Insolvency filings
    • Insolvency Claims filings
    • Advising creditors in insolvencies
    • Advice to insolvency administrators
    • Trust structures
    • Liquidations
    • NPLs

Experience Highlights

High profile mandates in my career

  • Banking Finance
    • Financing of UMTS licenses in 2000
    • 2000 to 2002 various medium-sized German acquisition financing for banks
    • E-Plus group financing in 2001, various corporate loans for RBS in 2001
    • Financing of the acquisition of the Meridian Hotel Group in 2002
    • From 2004 real estate financing for ABN Amro, RBS, Barclays
    • From 2009 NPLs for Erste Abwicklungsanstalt and other opportunity investors
    • From 2011 factoring transactions for Helaba, DZ-Bank, ING,
  • Restructuring, insolvency
    • o JP Morgen in Kirch Media insolvency
    • Claims filings for JP Morgan with CitiReach in 2002; 2009 to 2013 bank consortium with OW-Bunker
    • 2008 – 2011 On the banking side Merckle, Stabilus, Jost; on the company side: Schaeffler
    • 2011 to 2013 – Sale of the German real estate portfolio of the real estate company of ING (Hafen City)
    • From 2009 NPLs for Erste Abwicklungsanstalt and other real estate investor
    • 2022 – Freelance work with advisors
      • to the banking consortium on the ara restructuring
      • of an investor as part of the A1 restructuring
      • for the liquidation of various ship loans

Career History

Previous Law firms

  • 2018 to 2025: indextro Recht & Business from (my own boutique firm)
  • 2000 to 2018: Allen & Overy LLP, now A&O Shearman LLP

Memberships

  • Deutsch-Lusitanische Juristenvereinigung
  • Rechtsanwaltskammer Frankfurt

Education

  • University of Heidelberg 1989 to 1994: Diplomised  translator for Spanish and Italian
  • University of Heidelberg 1992 to 1996: Law Studies
  • District Court of Heidelberg: Referendariat from 1996 to 1998
  • Doctor degree in law at the University of Heidelberg in 2001

 Other

  • Regular publications on insolvency-related topics and restructuring, including in the Handbook of Restructuring Law, up to the third edition: Chapter 10: Bridging and restructuring loans
  • German country report for the World Bank on insolvency law, 2004 to 2006
  • German chapter on European Cross Border Insolvencies, edited by Jennifer Marshall (until 2011)

 

 

 

 

Oliver is a partner in gunnercooke GmbH, whose registered office is Kurfuerstendamm 15, 10719 Berlin, AG Charlottenburg, HRB 224488 B. All lawyers of gunnercooke GmbH are admitted either in Germany or Austria to practise as Rechtsanwalt or Rechtsanwaeltin and are members of and regulated by the relevant local Bar (Rechtsanwaltskammer).

Expertise

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Dr Oliver Waldburg is an expert in banking and finance law as well as restructuring works. He is active for more than 20 years, 12 of which he was a partner in a magic circle firm.

He is a recognised legal expert with a wealth of experience. In banking / finance he offers deep and broad knowledge and experience in various special financing types, such as acquisition financing, real estate financing and corporate financing.

He has also managed structured financing for banks and companies, such as factoring and asset-based financing.

In restructurings, he supported bank consortia and corporate groups in near-insolvency restructurings. He has supported several creditors in insolvency proceedings and buyers of assets from insolvency estates.

Oliver is listed as a legal expert at Best Lawyers.

Oliver Advises

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  • Banking Finance
    • Acquisition finance
    • Real estate financings
    • Corporate financing
    • Security agreements (including crypto assets)
    • Intercreditor Arrangements
    • Trust agreements
    • Cash Pooling
    • Factoring
    • Asset finance
    • NPLs
  • Restructuring
    • Bridging and restructuring loans
    • Advising Steering committees
    • Advising corporates
    • Advising managing directors
    • Insolvency filings
    • Insolvency Claims filings
    • Advising creditors in insolvencies
    • Advice to insolvency administrators
    • Trust structures
    • Liquidations
    • NPLs

Experience Highlights

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High profile mandates in my career

  • Banking Finance
    • Financing of UMTS licenses in 2000
    • 2000 to 2002 various medium-sized German acquisition financing for banks
    • E-Plus group financing in 2001, various corporate loans for RBS in 2001
    • Financing of the acquisition of the Meridian Hotel Group in 2002
    • From 2004 real estate financing for ABN Amro, RBS, Barclays
    • From 2009 NPLs for Erste Abwicklungsanstalt and other opportunity investors
    • From 2011 factoring transactions for Helaba, DZ-Bank, ING,
  • Restructuring, insolvency
    • o JP Morgen in Kirch Media insolvency
    • Claims filings for JP Morgan with CitiReach in 2002; 2009 to 2013 bank consortium with OW-Bunker
    • 2008 – 2011 On the banking side Merckle, Stabilus, Jost; on the company side: Schaeffler
    • 2011 to 2013 – Sale of the German real estate portfolio of the real estate company of ING (Hafen City)
    • From 2009 NPLs for Erste Abwicklungsanstalt and other real estate investor
    • 2022 – Freelance work with advisors
      • to the banking consortium on the ara restructuring
      • of an investor as part of the A1 restructuring
      • for the liquidation of various ship loans

Career History

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Previous Law firms

  • 2018 to 2025: indextro Recht & Business from (my own boutique firm)
  • 2000 to 2018: Allen & Overy LLP, now A&O Shearman LLP

Memberships

  • Deutsch-Lusitanische Juristenvereinigung
  • Rechtsanwaltskammer Frankfurt

Education

  • University of Heidelberg 1989 to 1994: Diplomised  translator for Spanish and Italian
  • University of Heidelberg 1992 to 1996: Law Studies
  • District Court of Heidelberg: Referendariat from 1996 to 1998
  • Doctor degree in law at the University of Heidelberg in 2001

 Other

  • Regular publications on insolvency-related topics and restructuring, including in the Handbook of Restructuring Law, up to the third edition: Chapter 10: Bridging and restructuring loans
  • German country report for the World Bank on insolvency law, 2004 to 2006
  • German chapter on European Cross Border Insolvencies, edited by Jennifer Marshall (until 2011)

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Oliver is a partner in gunnercooke GmbH, whose registered office is Kurfuerstendamm 15, 10719 Berlin, AG Charlottenburg, HRB 224488 B. All lawyers of gunnercooke GmbH are admitted either in Germany or Austria to practise as Rechtsanwalt or Rechtsanwaeltin and are members of and regulated by the relevant local Bar (Rechtsanwaltskammer).