Dr. Axel Goetz
LL.M. (NYU)
Attorney-at-law (NY)
Partner in our Munich office
Widenmayerstraße 6
80538 Munich
- +49 (0)89 / 21 21 59-0
- +49 (0)89 / 21 21 59-59
- agoetz@boetticher.com
Dr. Axel Goetz
LL.M. (NYU)
Attorney-at-law (NY)
Partner in our Munich office
Widenmayerstraße 6
80538 Munich
- +49 (0)89 / 21 21 59-0
- +49 (0)89 / 21 21 59-59
- agoetz@boetticher.com
PRACTICE AREAS
EXPERTISE
Before joining von BOETTICHER in May 2025, Dr. Axel Goetz was an equity partner at a large German law firm with an international focus for decades, including as practice group leader for corporate/M&A and litigation & arbitration. He advises international and German companies as well as private clients on transactions, corporate succession, private succession, restructuring, corporate law, and international commercial and contract law. Dr. Axel Goetz specialises in conflict resolution in family businesses and joint ventures, and, if necessary, litigation, including proceedings for interim relief – in cases of conflict between company management, shareholding groups and the operating company.
Languages: German, English, French
PUBLICATIONS
Dr. Axel Goetz has published articles on European and German procedural law as well as on special topics in stock corporation law relating to delisting, in connection with a constitutional complaint he handled in Karlsruhe in 2010 and 2011, which led to the Federal Court of Justice’s delisting ruling being overturned.
RECOGNITIONS
Various listings in the JUVE Handbook, Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers and Legal500, each for corporate law and M&A
QUALIFICATIONS
- Studied at the Universities of Munich and Freiburg as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation
- First state exam in 1990, Second state examination in 1993, research stay in Paris in 1993/1994 to prepare for his dissertation
- German lawyer since 1995
- Master of Law (LL.M) from New York University (NYU) in 1996, admitted to the bar in the State of New York (Attorney-at-law, NY)
- Promotion 1997, University of Erlangen, on the application of the then Brussels Convention in France, with the key question: “How does French legal practice deal with civil judgments from other European countries?