Dr. Christof Schiller, Lawyer – graduated from Heidelberg University in 1992 with a legal degree. He is also qualified as a Tax Consultant under German law (Steuerberater) and as a CPA under US-law and as a Certified Fraud Examiner. Dr. Schiller worked with Wellensiek during his education and until 2003 with Schultze & Braun, both law-firms are leading insolvency practitioners in Germany. He has been a partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers for three years and returned to Wellensiek in 2004 and stayed there until 2014. Beginning 2015 he joined Anchor Rechtsanwälte and is now based in Mannheim, Germany. Dr. Schiller specializes in insolvency related matters. During his time at Schultze & Braun he was insolvency administrator of Matthias Schmider one of the accused in the Flowtex case, a major fraud with more than 2.5 billion Euros in damages. He ran a Dornier-Fairchild subsidiary for over a year during its Chapter 11 Proceedings in the US and he was liquidator to two Enron Companies in Germany. He is also active in advising investors when they want to purchase a business from an insolvency administrator or in other distresses situations. Other areas of competence include working with financial institutions to improve their collateral portfolios and enforcing the creditor’s position in insolvency. Another focus is advising foreign investors when subsidiaries go in financial difficulties, especially the assessment of risks involved with insolvency for the parent company and for managing directors. Dr. Schiller is a member of Insol , the American Bankruptcy Institute and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants as well as the ACFE. Anchor Rechtsanwälte with over 40 lawyers and over 100 staff members in 9 offices is one of the largest law firms in Germany specializing in insolvency related matters, such as insolvency administration, restructuring law and distresses M&A.
