Tilman Coenen is specialized in commercial and corporate law. He advises and represents in particular financial institutions in banking law matters and small and medium-sized companies in questions of commercial and corporate law, both in and out of court. In addition, he has for many years focused on insolvency law, particularly insolvency voidance law. Before joining Grüter, he was a partner in the law firm Streitbörger.
He speaks fluent English and regularly holds lectures on commercial and corporate law topics.
Tilman Coenen studied law in Münster/Westphalia and also completed the specialist foreign language training for lawyers (English) at the University of Münster. After passing his first state law exam in 2000, he obtained his doctorate under Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Kollhosser in the field of corporate law. He also worked at the Institute for International Business Law (Prof. Dr. Saenger) at the University of Münster. He passed his second state law exam in 2003 and began his legal career at law firm Streitbörger Speckmann, where he was a partner between 2007 and the end of 2023. During his studies, he spent time abroad in Plymouth/England and during his legal clerkship in New York City.
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Saenger/Aderholt/Lenkaitis/Speckmann, Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht – Praxishandbuch (Commercial and corporate law - Practical handbook) (edited the section on GmbH law, together with Dr. Schmitz-Herscheidt);
Triebel/Coenen, Parallelität von Schiedsverfahren und staatlichem Gerichtsverfahren (Parallelism of arbitral and state court proceedings), BB 2003, addendum no. 5, pp. 1 et seqq.;
Coenen, Formfreie Schenkung der Gesellschafterstellung in einer stillen Gesellschaft und einer Unterbeteiligung (Formless gifting of shareholder positions in a dormant partnership and a sub-participation), 2002;
Willemsen/Coenen, Kapitalersetzende Gesellschafterleistungen nach den Procedo-Urteilen des BGH (Capital-replacing shareholder benefits according to the Federal Court of Justice's Procedo decisions), DB 2001, pp. 910 et seqq.