Dr Axel Hoppe

My main areas of practice

I provide ongoing advice to managers and board members, especially pertaining to the identification, prevention and defence of risks of liability (Corporate Compliance). Furthermore I advise issuers, investors and persons discharging managerial responsibility on all topics of capital market law (Capital Market Compliance).

In addition I focus on strategic and conceptual advice in the context of the implementation of manager and employee bonus plans.

A core area of my work is the support and organization of shareholders' meetings of listed and unlisted companies (Corporate Housekeeping). In this context I advise strategically and conceptually not only on amendments of the statutes, capital increases, issuance of participating certificates and convertible bonds, share buyback programmes but also on group law topics and corporate restructuring, in particular on mergers and changes of corporate form, e.g. in a Societas Europaea (SE).

Moreover I advise clients in corporate law suits, particularly in recission and nullification proceedings pertaining shareholders resolutions, or in proceedings pertaining shareholder compensation claims as well as in liability and damage suits.

I am working as a Partner with the Dusseldorf and Frankfurt offices of Fieldfisher. Before that I worked with a law firm specialised on commercial law in Cologne.

I advise my clients in German and English.
 

Publications (in German)

• "Downlisting to the SME Growth Market: Down with Regulation!, Capital Markets Blog" (June 2, 2026)
• Capital Increases under the Future Financing Act (ZuFinG), AG 22/2024, pp. 807 ff. (co-authored with Dr Johannes Knop)
• "Impact of the EU Listing Act on Investor Relations Practice", DIRK 2024
• "Points of Doubt in the Judicial Appointment of Chairpersons of the General Meeting of a Stock Corporation", NZG 2024, pp. 323 ff. (paywall)
• "Future Financing Act – “Double Whammy” for Capital Raising by Listed SMEs?", Capital Markets Blog (March 5, 2024)
• "The Transposition of the Virtual General Meeting into the Articles of Association of a Stock Corporation", NZG 2023, pp. 587 ff. (paywall)
• Adequacy of Cash Compensation Following the Squeeze-out of Minority Shareholders (Comment on Higher Regional Court of Munich, Decision of Jan. 7, 2022 – 31 Wx 399/18), NZG 2022, pp. 362 ff.
• "Timing, Content and Form of Notifications pursuant to Section 125 AktG under ARUG II", in: NZG 2022, pp. 110 ff.
• "Counting Correctly – The List of Participants in the Virtual General Meeting under New Law", HV Magazine 4/2022, pp. 30 ff.
• "The Right to Ask Questions in the 2022 AGM Season", HV Magazine 3/2021, pp. 18 f.
• "The Virtual General Meeting 2021 – Same Same, but Different" (co-authored with Sven Labudda), ZdiW 2021, pp. 115 ff.
• "Are There Still Open Questions? Blind Spots in the Law Governing the General Meeting of a Stock Corporation", NZG 2019, pp. 1401 ff.
• "Approval Requirements of the General Meeting for the Issuance of Phantom Stocks and Other Virtual Participation Models", NZG 2018, pp. 811 ff.
• "General Meeting Season 2017: Rights and Duties of the Chairperson in Election Decisions of the General Meeting", NZG 2017, pp. 361 ff.