Christine Lange

As a certified specialist in commercial and corporate law, I advise corporate groups with German investment companies as well as mostly medium-sized and smaller national companies on all matters of corporate law.

My practice in corporate law covers all life cycle phases of a company, from its formation to capital measures such as financing rounds involving internal and external investors, reorganisations, due diligence, acquisitions or sales in the form of share or asset deals or liquidation.

I have been advising many of my clients since the start-up phase and now have long-standing client relationships. The ongoing advice and support in terms of corporate housekeeping includes the preparation and organisation of shareholders’ meetings and general meetings and the resolutions of the management, executive and supervisory bodies as well as the corporate law documentation, including updating the commercial register and transparency register entries, etc.

I advise companies in various sectors, including research companies in the biotechnology sector, companies operating in the wholesale and retail sectors of the fashion industry, fintech companies and insurance companies.

In commercial law, my industry focus is on insurance distribution law. An essential part of my work is litigation: I represent the insurer’s side in contentious proceedings on all industry-specific issues of commercial agency law (commission and compensation claims of the insurance agent, book extract, contentious termination of contract).

• Partner at SNP since 2010
• Certified specialist in commercial and corporate law, 2006
• Lawyer at SNP since 2004
• Admitted to the bar, 2004
• Studied law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 1996 – 2001

• Handelsblatt “Germany’s best lawyers” in corporate law, since 2024
• Best Lawyers “The Best Lawyers in Germany” in the field of corporate law, since 2024

• Lange, Christine: Limitation of the commercial agent’s claim to a book extract. Comment on OLG Stg., judgement of 17.02.2016 – 3 U 118/15, in: GWR 15/2016, p. 316
• Schaller, Christine: Division of responsibility between two shareholder-managing directors with joint power of representation and sole power of representation. Commentary on OLG Munich, decision of 19 September 2013 – 23 U 1003/13, in: EWiR issue 4, 2014, p. 111 et seq.
• Schaller, Christine: No naming of the individual offences in the GmbH managing director’s assurance of the absence of obstacles to appointment. Comment on BGH, decision of 17 May 2010 – II ZB 5/10, in: EWiR Heft 16, 2010, p. 533 et seq.
• Schaller, Christine: On the obligation of existing companies to register a domestic business address under the MoMiG. Commentary OLG Munich, decision of 2 February 2009 – 31 Wx 9/09, in: EWiR Heft 14, 2009, p. 439 et seq.

• German Bar Association (Deutscher Anwaltverein e.V. – DAV)
• Working Group on Commercial and Corporate Law in the German Bar Association (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht im Deutschen Anwaltverein e.V.)
• International Bar Association (IBA)