Partner
Fachanwalt für Transport- und Speditionsrecht
Practice Areas:
- Litigation
- Arbitration
- Corporate and commercial litigation
- Transportation disputes (passage and cargo)
Dr. Dennis Geissler advises in particular in the area of complex disputes.
In doing so, he advises and represents national and international companies as well as individuals. His practice focuses on complex shareholder and liability disputes. In his advisory approach he is aiming to avoid litigation. Dr. Geissler is acting as a permanent litigator for various DAX and MDAX corporations and medium-sized companies as well as a permanent advisor to successful companies and family offices. Since 2017, he has been admitted as an arbitrator and attorney-at-law at the DIS German Institution of Arbitration. In addition, he is also a specialist lawyer for transport and forwarding law.
Through his constant publications, lectures and not least through his participation in international conferences, he is particularly well known in the field of litigation and dispute resolution. He is also interested in Franco-German relations and the development of family businesses.
Dr. Geissler studied law at the University of Passau. During his legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt, he wrote his doctoral thesis on the legality of party donations. Before becoming a founding partner of Ferox Legal, he worked for several years for leading commercial law firms in Munich and Frankfurt am Main. He is a lecturer at the UBIS University in Geneva and at the private university EC Europa Campus in Frankfurt.
In addition to his work as a lawyer, Dr. Geissler holds various offices:
- Member of the cooperative representation of Frankfurter Volksbank eG.
- Chairman of the board of a major family foundation
- Member of the supervisory board of an automotive company
Current assignments of Dr. Dennis Geissler
- Representation of the major shareholders of an international company specialising in the manufacture of tools for the mining industry in shareholder disputes concerning the seizure of shares with a value of €3.0 million in eight different lawsuits.
- Representation of a Taiwanese shareholder in a dispute over the seizure of shares of an international manufacturer of injection molding systems with a value of €2.5 million.
- D&O claim against the former CEO of a leading emissions and water management service provider, valued at €2.9 million.
- D&O claim against former members of the management and advisory board of a company specializing in the production and distribution of PV modules, value €3.2 million.
- Major European Star Alliance airline: ongoing legal advice and representation in major litigation, e.g., in connection with the crisis of a major non-IATA agent of air tickets with a dispute value of 14 million euros.
- Global transport and forwarding company: Ongoing legal advice and representation, e.g., in transport claims against the client’s liability insurer with a value of €1.5 million.
- Large global insurance company: Ongoing legal representation in disputes regarding claims for damages following accidents in aircraft or airports.
- Major African Star Alliance airline: Ongoing legal advice and representation in major disputes and proceedings.
- Major Asian Star Alliance airline: Ongoing legal advice and representation in major litigation and disputes.
- Legal action (Local Court of Essen) by a gas company against German DAX company and its CEO in circumvention of an LCIA arbitration award
- Acting as party representative in various arbitration proceedings (including HSV Handall v. Handball-Bundesliga)