Prof. Dr. Diefenhardt - Biography

Education

Apprenticeship as bank clerk
Study of law with a focus on economic law and politics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main
1st state examination
Clerkship at the district court of Frankfurt am Main (e.g. chamber for competition and trademark law, corporate law firm)
PhD to become Dr. jur. under Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Manfred Weiss at the Institute for Civil and Economic Law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main
Study abroad at the University of Florida, Gainesville; London School of Economics and Universitá Bologna/Modena
2nd state examination

Professional experience

Professional experience in a credit institute first as a legal advisor of a group legal department and the last 10 years as a manager of the corporate division law and strategy
Focus area commercial and corporate law, national and international contract law, work law, M&A, corporate governance, supervisory law
Practical career steps in Washington D.C. and Hong Kong

University

Examiner for the 1st legal state examination
Lectureship at the Frankfurt School and the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
since 1st July of 2018 Professor for Economic Law at the UAS Kiel