Dr. Felix Melzer

Partner @ act legal Germany | Self-Adminstrator, Insolvency Administrator | Turnaround and Restructuring

Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

About

Dr. Felix Melzer, MBA, is a Partner, with more than ten years of legal experience, at the full-service business law firm act legal Germany, based in Frankfurt. He has been a trusted adviser to renowned domestic and foreign companies, investors, and shareholders, with structural, strategic, and restructuring advice as well as M&A transactions. Over the years, he has been engaged in complex multi-faceted restructuring projects requiring not only legal advisory, but also sophisticated financial and managerial insight. Felix regularly takes on the role of General Representative in self-administration and protective shield proceedings and thus offers unique capability in combining both worlds of solvent and insolvent restructuring options. Felix, who also acts as an insolvency administrator, has been consistently listed since 2024 by Best Lawyers/Handelsblatt as "one to watch" in the field of restructuring & insolvency.

Experience

  • act legal Germany (7 yrs 10 mos)
    • Partner
      Jan 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

    • Attorney at law
      Sep 2018 - Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Attorney at law at STAPPER | JACOBI |SCHÄDLICH RECHTSANWÄLTE - PARTNERSCHAFT
    Apr 2015 - Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Co-Founder, General Counsel, Interim Head of Product Development at Legal Tech Startup
    Oct 2013 - Jun 2017 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Co-founder of a start-up company in the legal tech sector focusing on digitalization of legal voting processes for associations, corporations and public bodies.

  • Research Assistant at Leading supra-regional business law firm
    Mar 2011 - Apr 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos