Dr. Nicolai Fischer

Frankfurt

Phone: +49 (0)69 874029-500
Fax: +49 (0)69 874029-555
Email: n.fischer@grub-brugger.de

Experience:

Dr. Nicolai Fischer is an attorney-at-law and insolvency administrator at GRUB BRUGGER’s Frankfurt am Main office.

He has been working in insolvency administration at GRUB BRUGGER as a Salaried Partner since mid-2026. Since the beginning of 2025, Dr. Nicolai Fischer has been appointed by several local courts, in particular in Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and northern Bavaria, as insolvency administrator and so called Sachwalter in insolvency, self-administration and protective shield proceedings, as well as insolvency plan proceedings. His focus is on the continuation and restructuring of companies in insolvency proceedings. In this context, he has recently advised companies from sectors including fashion, mechanical engineering, retail and personnel services. Prior to joining GRUB BRUGGER, he also worked in insolvency administration at an international law firm.

Education:

  • 2026: Joined GRUB BRUGGER
  • 2018: Joined an international law firm
  • 2024: Zulassung zur Rechtsanwaltschaft
  • 2017: PhD at the chair of Prof. Dr. Dirk A. Verse, M.Jur., at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, summa cum laude, awarded the PhD thesis prize of the Alfred Teves Foundation
  • Studied at the Universities of Bayreuth and Mainz

Specialties:

  • Rule Insolvency Administration
  • Property Management
  • Reorganisation and restructuring
  • Shielded proceedings
  • Self-administration
  • Insolvency law
  • Company law
  • Commercial law
  • Preventive Restructuring Framework (StaRUG)
  • Insolvency administration
  • Sanierung und Restrukturierungsberatung
  • Commercial criminal law

Correspondence Languages

Deutsch, Englisch

Publications:

  • Publication of the article „Gesellschafterdarlehen in Personen- und Kapitalgesellschaften als erlaubnispflichtige Bankgeschäfte?“ in WM 2014, 1709
  • Publication of the Festschrift contribution „Zahlungsvorgänge auf debitorischen Konten nach Insolvenzreife im Licht des Rechts der Zahlungsverbote“, in: Festschrift für Dr. Klaus Wimmer, Baden-Baden, Nomos, S. 263-293 (together with Alfred Hagebusch)
  • Publication of the dissertation: Die existenzvernichtende Vorstandshaftung und ihre Begrenzung durch Satzungsbestimmung (de lege lata), 2018, Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 280 pages
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