Oliver Behrendt|Partner

  • Admitted to the bar since 2012, joined ARNECKE SIBETH DABELSTEIN in April 2021
  • Advising in all areas of (maritime) commercial law
  • Focus on advising shipyards, suppliers to the maritime industry and shipping companies
  • 2017-2021 General Counsel / authorised signatory at MV Werften Group
  • 2018 – 2022 Managing Director of a hotel with approx. 100 rooms and 26 employees
  • 2012-2016 Lawyer at Dabelstein & Passehl
  • Legal clerkship: 2010-2012 Higher Regional Court of Schleswig / Schleswig-Holstein, District Court of Itzehoe
  • Stations at the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency and BlankRome LLP, New York City, among others
  • Studies: University of Hamburg (2003-2009)

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  • Languages: English
  • Credentials:
    • Advising and negotiating various shipbuilding contracts, in particular for specialised vessels (cruise, offshore wind, autonomous ships)
    • Advising in the context of acquisitions: e.g. of business acquisitions -/sales of a company for engineering services with more than 120 employees (real estate and operating companies of a hotel etc.)
    • Advising on the structuring, closing and execution of ECA-covered construction financing of two new shipbuilding projects with a volume of more than EUR 2.6 billion
    • Comprehensive advice on the establishment and greenfield development of an independent production unit for modular prefabricated parts for shipbuilding (incorporation of companies, purchase of land and means of production, purchase contracts of all kinds as well as sales contracts, internal organisation, financing)
    • “Greenfield” development of a new hotel (company foundations, purchase of land, general planning contracts, construction contracts, purchase contracts of all kinds as well as sales contracts, internal organisation, financing and financial planning, general questions of operation) including activity as managing director