Dr Johannes Thoma

I have been advising companies, shareholders, managing directors, and board members on all matters of corporate law for more than 25 years. I have been a specialist lawyer for commercial and corporate law for 15 years. A major focus of my work is advising on restructuring and crisis-related reorganization. In recent years, I have increasingly been involved in supporting and resolving shareholder disputes.

Antitrust issues regularly arise in the course of my commercial and corporate law consulting, particularly in relation to transactions. My commercial training, which preceded my law studies, continues to prove a profound foundation for my understanding of business matters.

• Partner at SNP since 2026
• Founding partner of Schindhelm Düsseldorf (Schmidt Rogge Thoma Rechtsanwälte PartG), 2015-2025
• Partner at Reiners Rogge, Düsseldorf, 2011-2015
• Attorney, later partner at SKW Schwarz Rechtsanwälte, Düsseldorf (formerly ARCON Rechtsanwälte, Avocado Rechtsanwälte), 2003-2010
• Attorney at Raupach & Wollert Elmendorff (Deloitte), Hamburg, specializing in antitrust law and corporate law, 2002-2003
• Attorney at Nörr Stiefenhofer Lutz, Munich, focusing on antitrust law, corporate law, distribution law, 1999-2002
• Studied law, completed legal clerkship and doctorate in Konstanz

• Thoma, Johannes: Exemptions for energy, magazines, agriculture, water supply, monopoly commission, in: Berg/Mäsch: Practical Commentary; German and European Antitrust Law.
• Thoma, Johannes: Managing Director (§ 35 GmbHG), in: Heiybrock: Practical Commentary GmbHG
• Thoma, Johannes: Sales target agreements in selective distribution systems: Still permitted according to BGH Ref. KZR 28/06?, in: WRP 2005, 1132-1135
• Thoma, Johannes: EU law and the limits of sovereign state activity, dissertation 2004
• Thoma, Johannes: Franchise law and data protection law, in: Metzlaff, Karsten: Handbook of Franchise Law

• Regular in-house lectures and training courses on compliance (money laundering and sanctions circumvention) and managing director liability
• Webinar “Distressed Refinancing – Creditor Strategies in Crisis” (March 2025)