Dr. Christoph Bielak
Partner
Lawyer

If the answer is complex, the problem has not been understood.
Career
Vita
2005-2010
Law studies, University of Osnabrück
2010-2012
Doctorate in Corporate Law, University of Mainz
2012-2015
Legal traineeship
2015-2018
Schindhelm Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Osnabrück
2018
HADLEY
Teaching activities
Teaching activities at the University of Osnabrück
since 2015
Corporate Law
since 2019
European Corporate Law and Corporate Finance
Areas of Practice
Venture Capital / Start-ups
Corporate transactions, M&A
Corporate law incl. shareholder disputes
Stewardship ownership (Purpose-driven ownership)
Professional Expertise
I've always understood our task as advising my clients with clear, simple recommendations in highly complex processes. Of course, we not only have the expertise and experience to handle high complexity; but for clients as entrepreneurs, this needs to result in practicable options. With this approach, I've been working for many years in M&A, venture capital, and corporate law. I love mid-market M&A transactions because they combine entrepreneurial freedom with the 'usual M&A circus' - professional processes alongside experiencing each entrepreneur's unique story as they often sell their life's work. The innovation spirit and speed that founders and VC investors bring to the table continuously helps me become a bit better and more digital in my daily work. And when things get contentious, I have no problem taking off the kid gloves in court and beyond, willing to emerge bloodied from the ring for my clients. My prominent position in stewardship ownership (Purpose-driven ownership) then rounds out my work. I'm very pleased to have been able to help implement this 'movement' across Germany for many years. I'm proud that our efforts have resulted in standard articles of association and standard terms (FPPA), allowing us to contribute to the entire 'scene'. But I'm not just a lawyer; today I'm essentially also an entrepreneur. Not only with HADLEY but also as a business angel and founder of Heimatboost (https://www.heimatboost.de/), as a supervisory board member, as co-founder and managing director of Companycheck.ai, and always with a passion for business models in the LegalTech space. I'm still young and looking forward to many more opportunities ahead.
Publications
2015
Kapitalschutz im Konzern Einheitliche Zurechnungskriterien bei Beteiligung verbundener Unternehmen im Recht der Kapitalaufbringung und -erhaltung [Capital Protection in Corporate Groups: Uniform Attribution Criteria for Affiliated Companies in Capital Formation and Maintenance Law], Abhandlungen zum Deutschen und Europäischen Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht (AGK) [Studies in German and European Corporate and Capital Market Law (AGK)], Volume 90, 2015
Personal
I'm an entrepreneur and lawyer with heart and soul. But with equal intensity, I'm also a father of five wonderful children, husband to an amazing, dedicated, powerhouse of a woman, socially engaged, passionate about sports, creatively active with kids, and always enthusiastic about various nerdy hobbies. The day only has 24 hours, and I can say that I make the most of every single one of them.
I'm grateful that my partners, digital work opportunities, and clients who always see us advisors as people first, allow me to maintain this balance.