Julian Opp has been a lawyer since 2009 and a partner at Achsnick Pape Opp Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH since 2013. A key focus of his work is advising on crises, restructurings, and insolvencies of medium-sized enterprises. In this context, he advises companies, shareholders, corporate bodies, as well as creditors, financiers, and investors on all insolvency, corporate, and financing law issues related to financing, corporate restructuring, or insolvency.

Additional focus areas of Julian Opp's work include out-of-court and court representation of insolvency administrators, corporate bodies, or creditors, particularly in connection with claims of corporate liability and insolvency challenges, as well as negotiating, drafting, and managing dual-purpose trust relationships and financing and security documentation.

Areas of Expertise

• Restructuring and Reorganization
• Credit and Security Law
• Dual-purpose Trusts
• Corporate Liability and Insolvency Challenges

Career

• Studied law at the University of Mannheim
• Legal clerkship in the district of the Pfälzisches Oberlandesgericht Zweibrücken, Second State Examination
• Since 2009 at Achsnick Pape Opp

Publications

Books / Monographs

• Achsnick/Opp: Die doppelnützige Treuhand in der Sanierung (Dual-purpose Trusts in Restructuring), RWS-Verlag, 3rd ed. 2021
• Achsnick/Opp: Die doppelnützige Treuhand in der Sanierung, RWS-Verlag, 2nd ed. 2013
• Pape/Opp: Sanierungsgutachten (Restructuring Reports), RWS-Verlag, 1st ed. 2017

Handbooks / Commentaries

• Opp/Fouladfar: "Die doppelnützige Treuhand als Sanierungsinstrument zur Insolvenzvermeidung" (The Dual-purpose Trust as a Restructuring Instrument to Prevent Insolvency) in: Hohberger/Damlachi, Praxishandbuch Sanierung im Mittelstand, Springer Gabler Verlag, 4th ed. 2019, Chapter 7.4 (pp. 717 ff.)
• Pape/Opp: "Rechtlicher Rahmen für die Erstellung von Sanierungsgutachten" (Legal Framework for the Preparation of Restructuring Reports) in: Hohberger/Damlachi, Praxishandbuch Sanierung im Mittelstand, Springer Gabler Verlag, 4th ed. 2019, Chapter 6.4 (pp. 558 ff.)
• Achsnick/Opp: "Einstweiliger Rechtsschutz im Insolvenzverfahren" (Interim Legal Protection in Insolvency Proceedings) in: Enders/Börstinghaus, Einstweiliger Rechtsschutz, ZAP-Verlag, 3rd ed. 2016, pp. 738 ff.

Articles / Case Comments

• Opp: "Zur Vorsatzanfechtung gegenüber einem Zahlungsmittler" (On Intentional Contestation against a Payment Mediator), EWiR 2018, 147
• Opp: "Zur Darlegungs- und Beweislast des Gläubigers für die Wiederaufnahme der Zahlungen nach Kenntnis der Zahlungsunfähigkeit des Schuldners" (On the Burden of Proof of the Creditor for the Resumption of Payments After Knowledge of the Debtor's Insolvency), EWiR 2017, 115
• Achsnick/Opp: "Finanzierer als Anfechtungsgegner – präzisierte Anforderungen an die Darlegung subjektiver Tatbestandsmerkmale durch Insolvenzverwalter" (Financiers as Contestation Opponents – Refined Requirements for the Presentation of Subjective Facts by Insolvency Administrators), InsVZ 2010, 369
• Krüger/Opp: "Wirksamkeit des Forderungserwerbs durch einen Factor im Insolvenzeröffnungsverfahren und individuelle Konzernverrechnungsvereinbarungen – Anmerkung zum Urt. des BGH v. 10.12.2009" (Validity of Debt Acquisition by a Factor in Insolvency Proceedings and Individual Group Netting Agreements – Comment on the Judgment of the German Federal Court of 10.12.2009), NZI 2010, 672
• Achsnick/Opp: "Insolvenzanfechtung von Zahlungen aus geduldeter Kontoüberziehung – Anmerkung zum Urt. des BGH v. 6.10.2009" (Insolvency Challenge of Payments from Tolerated Overdraft – Comment on the Judgment of the German Federal Court of 6.10.2009), NZI 2010, 633

Articles / Journal Contributions

• Opp/Pape: "Haftungsrisiken bei Transaktionen mit Gesellschaftern" (Liability Risks in Transactions with Shareholders), E-Book "GmbH-Geschäftsführer 2020," pp. 95 ff.
• Opp/Pape: "Wann braucht die Bank ein Sanierungskonzept?" (When Does the Bank Need a Restructuring Concept?), Handelsblatt Journal – Special Publication: Restructuring & Transformation, September 2019, p. 5
• Opp/Pape: "Sanierungskonzepte im Wandel der Zeit" (Restructuring Concepts Through the Ages), Guest Article in: Existenz, Magazine for Finance, Restructuring, Corporate Recovery, and Economy, Issue No. 9 (February 2018), pp. 39 ff.
• Opp/Pape: "Anfechtung im Kontext von Sanierungen – es muss nicht IDW sein, aber ..." (Contestation in the Context of Restructuring – It Doesn't Have to Be IDW, but...), Handelsblatt Journal – Special Publication: Restructuring – Corporate Recovery – Insolvency, October 2016, p. 9
• Opp/Pape: "Gut-achten, statt haften!" (Reports, Not Liability!), return - Magazine for Corporate Governance and Restructuring, online publication, August 31, 2016