Address

PwC Legal

Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 35-37

60327 Frankfurt am Main

Contact

Mobile  +49 151 24129940

Email  E-Mail

Qualification

  • Lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) since 2022

Expertise

  • German and international companies and groups
  • GmbHs, UGs and associations
  • Listed companies

Languages

  • German
  • English
I offer

About me

Markus Gortan specialises in insolvency, employment and corporate law as well as litigation and arbitration. He has more than eight years of professional experience and has assisted with a large number of legal proceedings. At PwC Legal, he works in the areas of occupational pension schemes and restructuring.

Career
  • Since 2022: PwC Legal, Frankfurt am Main
  • Until 2022: employed at the German offices of a major Japanese law firm, Frankfurt am Main
  • Until 2021: legal clerkship (Rechtsreferendariat), district of the Higher Regional Court of Jena
  • Until 2020: employed at a medium-sized business law firm, Erfurt
  • Until 2019: employed at a major law firm, Mannheim
  • Until 2018: employed at a renowned insolvency law firm, Erfurt
  • 2017: doctorate on the topic: the dualism of interests in insolvency employment law
  • Until 2017: post-graduate (LL.M. oec) programme in private and public business law, Jena
  • Until 2015: student, Jena
Publications
  • Calculation of the number of employees and the concept of organizational unit in the governmental draft of the HinSchG, June 2022, NZA 2022, 838-840.
  • The deputy membership in the facultative supervisory board, November 2019, VR 2019, 369-372
  • The position of the deputy member of the supervisory board, January 2019, Buch
  • Criminal liability of managing personnel of the software manufacturer of self-driving vehicles for failure to act due to breach of the duty to observe products, August 2018, CR 2018, 546-552
  • Ordering a reservation of consent of certain legal transactions to avoid payment of tax and social security contributions in the provisional bankruptcy administration, December 2016, NZI 2016, 982-986
  • Reduction of the minimum remuneration in consumer bankruptcy proceedings pursuant to § 3 sec. 2 lit. e InsVV
  • May 2016, NZI 2016, 339-341
  • Cancellation of the bankruptcy notice entered in the German Commercial Register regarding the decision to open a bankruptcy proceedings against a merchant pursuant to § 32 sec. 1 sent. 1 of the German Commercial Code (HGB) by analogy, March 2016, NZI 2016, 68-70
Mentions
  • German Federal Court of Justice, ruling dated 12 March 2020 – IX ZB 33/18