Dr. Thomas C. Fallak
Frankfurt
Phone: +49 69 663729-0
Fax: +49 69 663729-19
Email: t.fallak@grub-brugger.de
Experience:
Dr Thomas C. Fallak is a lawyer and partner at GRUB BRUGGER in Frankfurt am Main.
Dr Fallak advises parties in reorganisation and restructuring especially regarding out-of-court and in-court measures. This includes potential restructuring options, reorganisation under insolvency law like proceedings in self- administration and protective shield proceedings as well as stabilisation and restructuring framework proceedings (StaRUG). Dr Fallak also represents the interests of shareholders, creditors and other stakeholders in respective proceedings.
Dr Fallak regularly gives specialist lectures, e.g. on the principles of insolvency law and the obligations of the parties involved, in particular tax advisors.
Education:
- 2024: Lawyer and partner at GRUB BRUGGER
- 2022 to 2024: Lawyer and associated partner in a medium-sized law firm specialised in insolvency and crisis advice
- 2020 to 2022: Lawyer and authorised signatory in the law firm of a BigFour
- 2018 to 2020: Lawyer in a medium-sized law firm specialised in insolvency and crisis advice
- 2022: Dissertation at the Free University of Berlin, supervised by Prof Dr Andreas Engert LL.M.
- 2013 to 2017: Academic assistant at the University of Mannheim at the chair of Prof Dr Carsten Schäfer (with interruptions for about 3 years in total)
- 2014 to 2016: Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe, Regional Court of Mannheim
- 2007 to 2013: Legal studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg
Publications:
- Systematic problems in insolvency accounting offenses. Requirement of a concrete threat to creditors' interests and exclusionofsubstitute liability under Section 14 (2) sentence 1 no. 2 StGB(German Criminal Code) within the offenses of Section 283 (1) nos. 5 to 7 StGBand Section 283b StGB, KTS 2/2025, pp. 159 to 193.
- Insolvency law in tax consulting practice. Disclosure requirements, going concern prognosis, and client support in corporate crises, together with Dr. Volker Büteröwe, 331 pages, Erich Schmidt Verlag 2024.
- The examination of insolvency by means of algorithms. At the same time a legal contribution to the understanding of forecasts and artificial intelligence, Nomos 2022.
- Digital analysis of accounting data for ex-post determination of the occurrence of insolvency, ZIP 2018, pp. 1860 to 1867.
- Legal classification of the ‘pre-participation company’ in the GmbH, together with Isabel Huynh Cong NZG 2016, pp. 1291 et to 1296
- Claims in the event of withdrawal following incorrect entry into a ‘virtual association’, together with Prof. Dr Carsten Schäfer, Festschrift Kübler 2015, pp. 607 to 619.
- Cautelar legal case solution: The unsuccessful entry into a competitor's company, together with Cornelius Alders, StudZR 2011, pp. 315 to 337.
More Information:
Lecturer at Fresunius University of Applied Sciences
Specialties:
- Liquidation
- Shielded proceedings
- Self-administration
- Reorganisation and restructuring
- Trusteeships
- Company acquisitions in special situations (distressed mergers and acquisitions)
- Preventive Restructuring Framework (StaRUG)
- Company acquisition/M&A
- Liability of boards of directors and managers
Languages:
Deutsch, Englisch