Jennifer Bierly, LL.M. (Pennsylvania)

Lawyer, Partner*

Practice Areas

  • Real estate share deal transactions and joint ventures involving institutional and private investors or project developers
  • Investments in portfolio properties and project developments
  • M&A and joint venture projects outside the real estate sector
  • General meetings, corporate structuring and capital measures, compliance with capital market ad-hoc disclosure requirements
  • Corporate structuring and corporate housekeeping for national and international groups, public companies and investment companies
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Education and Professional Experience
  • Lawyer at GSK Stockmann since 2009 and from 1999 to 2008
  • Lawyer at a major law firm in Berlin/Frankfurt/Cologne from 2008 to 2009
  • Admitted to practise law in Germany (1999)
  • LL.M. from the University of Pennsylvania
  • Trainee lawyer with a major international law firm in Berlin and New York
  • Law studies at the Freie Universität Berlin
Languages
  • English, German
Memberships
  • Member of German-American Lawyers’ Association
Awards
  • Recommended lawyer in the field of “Corporate Law” and “M&A” (The Legal 500 2024)
  • Recommended lawyer in the field of “M&A” (Juve Handbuch 2022-2024)
  • Ranking “Germany’s Best Lawyers” in the area of “Corporate Law, M&A” (Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers in Germany 2020-2024)
Publications
  • Berka, Dominik / Bierly, Jennifer / Bessling, Jerome: Public M&A in Germany, in: Public M&A 2024, Lexology Getting The Deal Through, 10.05.2023.
  • Berka, Dominik / Bierly, Jennifer / Bessling, Jerome: Public M&A in Germany, in: Public M&A 2023, Lexology Getting The Deal Through, 24.05.2023.
  • Schmidt, Christian Rudolf / Bierly, Jennifer / von Holst, Nicolai in: Schmidt/Zagel: OHG, KG und PublikumsG: Umfassende Erläuterungen, Beispiele und Musterformulare für die Rechtspraxis, 2. Auflage 2010.
  • Bierly, Jennifer / Vogel, Hans-Josef in: International Corporate Law Compendium: Germany, edited by Michael Pearson, Wolters Kluwer / Aspen Publishers, Loseblattsammlung, 03/2010.
  • Schmidt, Christian Rudolf / Bierly, Jennifer in: Schmidt/Zagel, OHG, KG und PublikumsG – Umfassende Erläuterungen, Beispiele und Musterformulare für die Rechtspraxis, 1. Auflage 2004.
  • Schmidt, Christian Rudolf / Bierly, Jennifer: Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts als Gesellschafterin einer Personenhandelsgesellschaft, in: NJW 2004, S. 1210.
  • Bierly, Jennifer / Pirl, Uwe: German Insolvency Proceedings under the Insolvency Code of 1999 in: Tolley’s Insolvency Law & Practice (UK), Volume 19, 2003, S. 14 (Teil 1) und S. 53 (Teil 2).
Deal News
07 August 2023

GSK Stockmann advises Cooper Standard Group on the sale of its German Technical Rubber business to Holcim

GSK Stockmann advised Cooper Standard Group, headquartered in Michigan, USA, on the sale of its German Technical Rubber business to Holcim, headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

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Law firm
24 June 2022

Germany’s Best Lawyers 2022: Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers recommend 53 lawyers from GSK Stockmann

The renowned US publication Best Lawyers has once again published its list of “Germany’s Best Lawyers” of the year in cooperation with Handelsblatt. A total of 53 GSK lawyers...

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Deal News
26 January 2022

GSK Stockmann advises Hines on sale of Zalando headquarters

GSK Stockmann advised Hines Immobilien GmbH on the sale of the Zalando headquarters in Berlin-Friedrichshain to Bayerische Versorgungskammer.

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Law firm
29 June 2021

Germany’s Best Lawyers 2021: Handelsblatt & Best Lawyers recommend 50 GSK Stockmann lawyers

Once again, the renowned American publisher Best Lawyers has issued “Germany's Best Lawyers” of the year in cooperation with Handelsblatt. A total of 50 GSK Stockmann lawyers w...

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Law firm
29 June 2020

Germany’s best lawyers 2020: 45 lawyers of GSK Stockmann recommended by Handelsblatt & Best Lawyers

Best Lawyers and Handelsblatt have published "Germany's best lawyers" of the year. A total of 45 lawyers of our law firm are recommended as leading experts in their field in German...

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