Dr. Carsten Kruchen

Carsten Kruchen specializes in advising companies and investors on company, capital market and regulatory issues. For example, he advises regularly on restructuring and with complex M&A transactions. He is also focused on board and supervisory board advice (including organ liability), corporate governance and compliance, the care of general meetings of listed companies, foundation law and representation in corporate law disputes. Carsten Kruchen sector are advising IT companies, insurance companies and foundations.

Carsten Kruchen has been managed in relevant industry publications and in the annual surveys of the Handelsblatt and Wirtschaftswoche for many years as a respected and often recommended consultant: Handelsblatt - Best Lawyers - Germany's best lawyers 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019 corporate law as well as 2025, 2023 and 2022 corporate governance & compliance; Wirtschaftswoche Top Lawyer Professional Law 2024 and 2021. The Juve Handbuch leads it among the often recommended lawyers: "Cutribric preparation, flawless procedural care" (2023/2024, client), "client -oriented, exactly" (2021/2022, competitor), "Expert, very well connected" (2022/2023, competitor), "Expert. u. Well structured "," extremely accurate and lightning "(2024/2025, competitor)

Carsten Kruchen regularly speaks at events and conferences on topics of corporate and supervisory law and has published numerous essays and contributions in magazines, specialist books and comments on questions of social and insurance regulator law alone or as a co-author.

From 2011 to 2012, Carsten Kruchen was a lecturer at the EBS University of Economics and Law for Civil and Society Law.

Carsten Kruchen studied law at the University of Konstanz. Afterwards he was a research assistant at the European Business School / structure and coordination of the study of business law / assistant to the program coordinator Prof. Dr. Dres. HC Werner F. Ebke, LL.M. From 2006 to 2007 he studied at Oxford University, Great Britain, and acquired the academic degree Magister Juris (M. Jur.). He received his doctorate at the Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg with Prof. Dr. Dres. HC Werner F. Ebke, LL.M. On a topic on the interface between company, international private and European law and acquired the academic degree of Dr. jur.

Carsten Kruchen began his career as a corporate/M&A lawyer in 2010 at the Gleiss Lutz law firm, which was leading in Germany, where he was appointed an associated partner in 2013. In 2016, Carsten Kruchen founded the law firm and Kruchen in Düsseldorf, which specializes in corporate law advice. In July 2025, Carsten Kruchen moved to Aderhold.

Chairman of the Source for Source for Alpha AG, Frankfurt am Main (Securities Institute in accordance with Section 15 Wpig with license from the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority).
Member of the Association for the Promotion of German, European and Comparative Business Law.

Backhaus/Tielmann (ed.), The Supervisory Board, 2nd ed. 2023

Commentation of §§ 108 AktG (pp. 404-477) and 111 AktG (pp. 517-719)

Is the virtual general meeting due to Section 118a (1) sentence 2 No. 1 AktG?

In: The Aktiengesellschaft (AG-Report) 2023, R 124 (together with Jessica Werner)

News about virtual shareholders' meetings in the GmbH

Otto Schmidt Blog Social Law of July 25, 2022 (together with Jessica Werner)

Corporate compliance obligations of the managing director according to the future transparency register and financial information law

In: GmbH Management 2021, the e-book for the management with the topics of this time exclusive and up-to-date. Pp. 69-71 (together with Jessica Werner)

Legislative bang: Virtual HV 4.0 from 28.2.2021

The stock corporation 2021, 108, pp. 1-5 (together with Stefan Mutter)

"Christmas present" of the legislator: Virtual Annual General Meeting (HV) 4.0!

Otto Schmidt Blog Social Law of December 23, 2020 (together with Stefan Mutter)

Does the BMJV put virtual general meetings in 2021 in danger?

In: The Aktiengesellschaft (AG-Report) 2020, R 299-R 300 (together with Stefan Mutter)

Bürkle (ed.), Compliance in Insurance Companies

3. Edition 2020: § 3 Insurance Groups / Groups, pp. 127-170

Virtual general meetings, § 1 of the law on measures in the company, cooperative, association, foundation, foundation and apartment ownership law to combat the effects of COVID-19-pandemic (COVMG)

In: German Journal for Economic and Insolvency Law, 2020 pp. 431-465

IT government, managing director responsibility and organ liability

In: Insurance regulatory requirements for information technology from insurance companies (VAIT), Institute for Insurance Law, 40th Düsseldorfer Series, pp. 1-39

Design of a implementing regulation to determine minimum requirements for the implementation of the changed shareholders' rights directive

In: The Aktiengesellschaft (AG-Report) 2018, R. 184-185

Fundamental rights and freedom of establishment of US lawyers and internal investigations

In: The Aktiengesellschaft (AG-Report) 2018, R. 616-621

Alea Iacta est - or not?

In: The Aktiengesellschaft (AG-Report) 2017, R. 385-387

The interpretation decision of BaFin on aspects of remuneration within the framework of Art. 275 delegated regulation (EU) 2015/35 - appreciation and thoughts on gap closure

In: VersR in: Insurance law (VersR) 2017, pp. 198-205

Short replica: When does Section 58 (4) sentence 2 AktG NF apply?

In: The Aktiengesellschaft (AG-Report) 2017, R 32-33

Brexit: Need for Action for UK Limited Company in Germany?

Oxford Business Law Blog (OBLB), University of Oxford, July 2016

Bürkle (ed.), Compliance in Insurance Companies

2nd edition 2015: § 3 insurance companies, pp. 79-110 (together with Stefan Mutter)

Risk protection of stock -based remuneration with your own shares

In: Die Aktiengesellschaft 2014, p. 655

Note on the decision of the OLG Braunschweig of June 14, 2012 - WS 44/12, WS 45/12

In: CCZ Corporate Compliance Journal 2013, pp. 123-126 (together with Stefan Mutter)

Art. 19 III GG and the sitting theory- convergences of constitutional and international corporate law?

In: NZG 2012, p. 377

Explanation of the corporate management according to § 289a HGB and "permanent" accessibility of internet addresses (paths)

In: ZIP 2012, p. 62

"Expertise" of members of the Supervisory Board in the area of tension between supervisory law, stock law and DCGK

In: ZCG 2011, p. 21

Adjustment of board employment contracts to the 2011 Weir Rights Change Act

In: The Aktiengesellschaft (AG-Report) 2011, R 280 (together with Stefan Mutter)

Expertise of Supervisory Board members

In: The Supervisory Board, 04.201, p. 58

How long have to be published?

In: The Aktiengesellschaft-Report (AG-Report) 2011, R 264 (together with Stefan Mutter)

How many offices are allowed to have supervisory boards?

In: Insurance law (VersR) 2011, pp. 48-49 (together with Stefan Mutter)

Prohibition of voting for resolutions according to § 120 Paragraph 4 AktG

In: The Aktiengesellschaft-Report (AG Report) 2010, R 78 (together with Stefan Mutter).

About the "expertise" of supervisory boards

In: The Aktiengesellschaft-Report (AG-Report) 2010, R 319-320 (together with Stefan Mutter).

European freedom of establishment and "domestic" corporations within the meaning of Art. 19 Para. 3 GG

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2009, 407 pages (printing costs of the Association for the Promotion of German European and Comparative Business Law)