Member Spotlight: New Practice, New Horizons

“We don’t want politics and neither do our trusted partners.” 

Urs Breitsprecher is managing partner at AQUAN Rechtsanwälte, forming the business after 15 years of legal practice in Düsseldorf. He has more than a decade of experience working on complex M&A transactions, and, due to his dual qualification as a German lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) and English Solicitor, he is specialised in cross-border deals. He also has considerable expertise of company and group restructurings, and their tax consequences as well as in insolvency matters.

Urs Breitsprecher chose his profession against the wishes of his father, a business owner with a healthy disrespect for lawyers.

“My father always said that businessmen make deals and lawyers break them” says Urs, who also considered becoming a cook before settling on legal training. Despite this attitude, his parents were keen to instil a sense of justice and the need to defend the weak, which, ultimately, led him to the law.

More than a decade later, as an experienced corporate lawyer specialising in cross-border M&A, insolvency and restructuring, Urs is finally becoming a business owner himself, as he and his team launch a new legal practice, AQUAN Rechtsanwälte.

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