Torsten Könker

Expertise He advises Experience Highlights Career History

Partner

Corporate, Compliance

+49 (0) 40 822 182 301

Expertise

Torsten is an experienced lawyer and business leader with more than 25 years of professional practice in a major German industrial group. Including 7 years as General Counsel of a holding and more than 10 years as Executive Board Member in German naval shipbuilding.

His core practice areas are Corporate, M&A and Compliance. In addition, the specific legal issues of the Security and Defence Industry like public procurement and export control.

His advice follows a holistic approach, always including legal, commercial, and technical aspects. With his broad international experience, he is especially qualified for cross border projects. He is a successful negotiator.

He advises

  • Companies of all sizes, especially about their Compliance Systems or general aspects of governance
  • Small and mid-sized companies of the German Security and Defense Industry
  • Foreign Security and Defense Industry companies, which are active in Germany or plan to become active
  • Investors with acquisition projects, especially regarding Security and Defense Industry

Experience Highlights

  • Task force lead combining legal, commercial, and technical resources conducting two ICC arbitrations with a foreign government
  • Co-lead of the Integrated Governance Project with development and implementation of an integrated organizational framework for the entire Business Area Industrial Solutions
  • Project lead for the settlement of a conflict with Hellenic Republic on Submarine Programs and Disposal of Hellenic Shipyards S.A.
  • Led the legal support for the merger of HDW Group and ThyssenKrupp Werften
  • Lead in-house counsel for Thyssen’s acquisition of Dover Elevator for USD 1.1 billion
  • Senior in-house counsel for the sale of the Krupp Kunststofftechnik Group to SIG (Switzerland).
  • Senior in-house counsel for the sale of the Krupp Werner & Pfleiderer Group to a consortium of Georg Fischer and West Private Equity (Switzerland)
  • Senior in-house counsel for the sale of the Thyssen Polymer Group to Deceuninck (Belgium)
  • Senior in-house counsel for the sale of the Novoferm Group to Sanwa Shutter (Japan)

Career History

Previous firms

  • 06/2021 – 02/2022 Argo Aviation GmbH, CEO Argo Defense
  • 10/2016 – 06/2020 thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG, Advisor to the Board
  • 10/2007 – 09/2016 thyssenkrupp Marine Systems GmbH, Member of the Executive Board, Project Strategy and Compliance, Quality Management
  • 01/2005 – 09/2007 thyssenkrupp Marine Systems AG, Member of the Division Executive Board and CFO, Controlling, Accounting, HR, IT, Infrastructure; CFO Blohm + Voss
  • 08/1998 – 01/2005 ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG, Senior Vice President and General Counsel
  • 02/1993 – 08/1998, Thyssen Industrie AG, Corporate Counsel

Education

  • Breaking New Grounds, HBS Executive Education
  • Referendariat Landgericht Osnabrück
  • Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster

 

 

Torsten 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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Torsten is an experienced lawyer and business leader with more than 25 years of professional practice in a major German industrial group. Including 7 years as General Counsel of a holding and more than 10 years as Executive Board Member in German naval shipbuilding.

His core practice areas are Corporate, M&A and Compliance. In addition, the specific legal issues of the Security and Defence Industry like public procurement and export control.

His advice follows a holistic approach, always including legal, commercial, and technical aspects. With his broad international experience, he is especially qualified for cross border projects. He is a successful negotiator.

He advises

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  • Companies of all sizes, especially about their Compliance Systems or general aspects of governance
  • Small and mid-sized companies of the German Security and Defense Industry
  • Foreign Security and Defense Industry companies, which are active in Germany or plan to become active
  • Investors with acquisition projects, especially regarding Security and Defense Industry

Experience Highlights

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  • Task force lead combining legal, commercial, and technical resources conducting two ICC arbitrations with a foreign government
  • Co-lead of the Integrated Governance Project with development and implementation of an integrated organizational framework for the entire Business Area Industrial Solutions
  • Project lead for the settlement of a conflict with Hellenic Republic on Submarine Programs and Disposal of Hellenic Shipyards S.A.
  • Led the legal support for the merger of HDW Group and ThyssenKrupp Werften
  • Lead in-house counsel for Thyssen’s acquisition of Dover Elevator for USD 1.1 billion
  • Senior in-house counsel for the sale of the Krupp Kunststofftechnik Group to SIG (Switzerland).
  • Senior in-house counsel for the sale of the Krupp Werner & Pfleiderer Group to a consortium of Georg Fischer and West Private Equity (Switzerland)
  • Senior in-house counsel for the sale of the Thyssen Polymer Group to Deceuninck (Belgium)
  • Senior in-house counsel for the sale of the Novoferm Group to Sanwa Shutter (Japan)

Career History

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Previous firms

  • 06/2021 – 02/2022 Argo Aviation GmbH, CEO Argo Defense
  • 10/2016 – 06/2020 thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG, Advisor to the Board
  • 10/2007 – 09/2016 thyssenkrupp Marine Systems GmbH, Member of the Executive Board, Project Strategy and Compliance, Quality Management
  • 01/2005 – 09/2007 thyssenkrupp Marine Systems AG, Member of the Division Executive Board and CFO, Controlling, Accounting, HR, IT, Infrastructure; CFO Blohm + Voss
  • 08/1998 – 01/2005 ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG, Senior Vice President and General Counsel
  • 02/1993 – 08/1998, Thyssen Industrie AG, Corporate Counsel

Education

  • Breaking New Grounds, HBS Executive Education
  • Referendariat Landgericht Osnabrück
  • Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster

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Torsten 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).