Dr. Carsten Kruchen

Carsten Kruchen specializes in advising companies and investors on corporate, capital markets, and regulatory law. He regularly advises on restructurings and complex M&A transactions. Furthermore, he focuses on advising management and supervisory boards (including directors' and officers' liability), corporate governance and compliance, supporting annual general meetings of listed companies, foundation law, and representing clients in corporate disputes. Carsten Kruchen's industry focus lies in advising IT companies, insurance companies, and foundations.

Carsten Kruchen has been listed as a respected and highly recommended consultant in relevant industry publications and in the annual surveys of Handelsblatt and WirtschaftsWoche for many years: Handelsblatt – Best Lawyers – Germany's Best Lawyers 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019 Corporate Law as well as 2025, 2024, 2023 and 2022 Corporate Governance & Compliance; WirtschaftsWoche named him a TOP Corporate Lawyer in 2024 and 2021. The JUVE Handbook lists him among the most frequently recommended lawyers: "meticulous preparation, flawless case management" (2023/2024, client), "client-oriented, precise" (2021/2022, competitor), "extremely precise technically, very well-connected" (2022/2023, competitor), "excellent technically and well-structured," "extremely precise and brilliant" (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 Gleiss Lutz, a leading German law firm, where he was appointed Associate Partner in 2013. In 2016, he founded MUTTER & KRUCHEN, a Düsseldorf-based law firm specializing in corporate law, as its name and founding partner. Carsten Kruchen will join Aderhold in July 2025.

• Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Source For Alpha AG, Frankfurt am Main (securities institution pursuant to Section 15 of the German Securities Trading Act (WpIG) with a license from the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin))

• Member of the Association for the Promotion of German, European and Comparative Economic Law