Practice Areas

  • M&A transactions, primarily strategic investments in the banking/financial services sector
  • Advice on corporate law and corporate structuring
  • Litigation and out-of-court dispute resolution, mainly corporate disputes
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Education and Professional Experience
  • Lawyer at GSK Stockmann since 2012
  • Three-month secondment to GSK Luxembourg in 2018
  • Four-month secondment to a leading German financial service provider with full banking licence, working in the group legal department to assist with conversion processes and restructuring of the group in 2017
  • Guest lecturer at the SRH University of Applied Sciences Heidelberg (since 2015) for the master’s programme in International Business and Corporate Law
  • Admitted to practise law in Germany (2012)
  • Doctorate from the University of Freiburg
  • Legal trainee with a leading German corporate law firm and with a DAX 30 company working in the group legal department
  • Law studies and undergraduate research assistant at the University of Freiburg
Languages
  • English, German
Memberships
  • International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA)
Awards
  • Recommended lawyer in the field of “M&A” (The Legal 500 2023)
Publications
  • Rügenhagen, Jens / Faron, Lukas: Vertrauen ist gut, Verträge sind besser – Selbstblockaden in Zwei-Personen-GmbHs, in: Hörakustik 01/2022, S. 59 ff.
  • Rügenhagen, Jens Uwe: Die betriebliche Mitbestimmung im Konzern, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2013.
  • Rügenhagen in Löwisch/Kaiser: Kommentar zum Betriebsverfassungsgesetz, 6. Auflage 2010, Bearb. des Anhang I: Kommentierung der Wahlordnung zum BetrVG.
  • Löwisch/Rügenhagen: Angemessene arbeitsvertragliche Vergütung von Betriebsratsmitgliedern mit Führungsfunktionen, Der Betrieb 2008, S. 466 (Heft 9)
Media review
17 May 2023

CSDD, protection of human rights and the environment in the supply chain

Eric Mayer and Jens-Uwe Rügenhagen of GSK Stockmann look at the recent draft of CSDD (Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive) and the new obligations for companies in th...

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Deal News
09 September 2022

GSK Stockmann advises Italian Wiit S.p.A. on further acquisition in Germany

A team led by our partner Jens Uwe Rügenhagen advised Milan-based Wiit S.p.A. on the acquisition of 100 percent of the shares in Lansol Datacenter GmbH in Limburgerhof.

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Deal News
15 August 2022

GSK Stockmann advises Olam Food Ingredients on the acquisition of Märsch Importhandels-GmbH

GSK Stockmann has advised Olam Food Ingredients (Ofi), a global leader in naturally good food and beverage ingredients, on the acquisition of Märsch Importhandels GmbH in Ulm. Ofi...

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Deal News
22 October 2021

GSK Stockmann advises Italian WIIT S.p.A. on the acquisition of German „Release 42“group

GSK Stockmann advised WIIT S.p.A. comprehensively on the acquisitions of Boreus GmbH and Gecko Gesellschaft für Computer und Kommunikationssysteme m.b.H. WIIT with its seat in Mil...

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Deal News
02 June 2021

GSK Stockmann advises MLP on expansion of commercial and industrial insurance sector

GSK Stockmann provided comprehensive legal advice to the financial services provider MLP on the acquisition of a group of companies consisting of Adolph Jahn GmbH & Co. KG, Ed....

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Deal News
15 February 2021

GSK Stockmann advises MLP on acquisition of RVM Group

GSK Stockmann provided comprehensive legal advice to the financial service provider MLP regarding the acquisition of the industrial insurance brokers RVM.

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30 March 2020

Impact of the coronavirus pandemic on contractual relationships

Pacta sunt servanda in times of crisis? We answer legal questions concerning the fulfilment of contractual relationships. Read our GSK update on the coronavirus pandemic now.

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