Dr. Michael Tigges, LL.M., M.M. is a founding partner and Of counsel at the law firm. He advises medium-sized companies on stock corporation and corporate law as well as on company acquisitions and participations. A further focus of his work lies in the area of commercial lease law.
Furthermore Dr. Tigges is active in the extrajudicial conflict settlement as a mediator and state-approved conciliation body (for further information please visit www.tigges-mediation.de).
Dr. Tigges has been admitted to practise as a lawyer in Düsseldorf since 1986 and has worked since then at TIGGES Rechtsanwälte and its predecessor law firms. He studied law in Münster, where he also earned his PhD on the subject “History and development of insurance monitoring”. In the course of his postgraduate studies in “Mergers and acquisitions”, Dr. Tigges wrote his masters thesis on the subject of “Due diligence and warranty in company purchase”. Dr. Tigges completed a further postgraduate course of study in “Mediation” with a master‘s thesis on the subject of “Internal conflict resolution: When does it fall under the regime of the Mediation Act and what consequences does this have for the parties involved?”
Dr. Tigges is Chair of the Supervisory Board or Advisory Board in several companies.
As a trained mediator, he has been a member of the board of the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mediation e.V.” for several years.
Since 2021, Dr Michael Tigges has been a member of the board of the “DACH European Bar Association”, of which the firm is a long-standing member.
Liquidationspräferenzen – Stolpersteine für Angel-Investoren? in Angel Investing at its best: Leitfaden für Business Angels II, Ute Günther und Roland Kirchhof (Hrsg.), München 2018
(Grenzüberschreitende) Verschmelzung und Management Buy-Out in Unternehmenskauf und -verkauf sowie (grenzüberschreitende) Verschmelzung, DACH-Schriftenreihe 47, Zürich 2016
Mediation in the investment business: not for the faint-hearted (co-author), in Venture Capital Magazine 9/2015, p. 22
Co-author in: Handbook of Trademark Law (eds. Lüken/Stöckel), in: Handbook of Trademark Law (eds. Lüken/Stöckel), 1st edition, 2003
Mediation is better than judgment (co-author) in ZMV (Journal for Employee Representation), 3/2014
Legal aspects of succession in planning offices, guide published by the Cooperation Network for Business Transfers, VBI, 2013
Co-author of “Everything you always wanted to know about private equity. A reader.” Published by Private Equity Forum NRW e. V., Munich, 2010
“Company Acquisition” in Contract Law Form Book, edited by Schulte-Nölke//Flohr, 3rd edition, Münster 2010
Co-author of “Become an entrepreneur and start your own business!”, VDI Application Handbook 2009
“Legal aspects of succession in planning offices,” VBI guide 2009
“Liability issues when taking over/handing over a planning office,” VBI handbook “Self-employed in an engineering office,” 2009
“Appropriate choice of corporate form” in “The Business Plan in the Medical Industry,” published by Startbahn MedEcon Ruhr, 2008
„Der Business-Angel als Aufsichtsrat des Beteiligungsunternehmens – rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen und Haftungsfallen”, Düsseldorf 2008
“Appropriate choice of corporate form” in “The Business Plan in the Medical Industry,” published by Startbahn MedEcon Ruhr, 2008
“Interactions of Due Diligence,” Frankfurt 2006
“Due diligence and warranty in company acquisitions,” Finanzbetrieb 2005, p. 95 ff.
“Essential contents of a participation agreement,” Best Practice Kit, www.business-angels.de, 2005
“Investment agreements – essential regulatory content,” BAND Newsletter 2003
“Investment agreements from a business angel’s perspective,” Business Angel Marketplace 2002
Co-Autor „Business-Angels”, Frankfurt 2002
Co-Autor „Leitfaden für Business-Angels”, Düsseldorf 2002
“VC investment agreements: content, structure, and risks for founders,” Markt und Mittelstand, January 2001
“Steal, Look, Who – Protection against idea theft in negotiations with VC investors,” LEGAMedia, May 2001
“Stock options as an incentive and means of employee participation,” Private Equity NRW Handbook, Düsseldorf 2000
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