born in 1945; Dr. Wern­er Old­en­burg stud­ied law and eco­nomics at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tübin­gen 1965 – 1969; as­sis­tant lec­tur­er at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tübin­gen (chair of Prof. Dr. H. Schröder) 1969 – 1973; ad­mis­sion to the Ger­man Bar in 1973. Dr. Old­en­burg has been a uni­ver­si­ty lec­tur­er on busi­ness and cor­po­rate law at the ESB Eu­ro­pean School of Busi­ness of Reut­lin­gen Uni­ver­si­ty.

Dr. Old­en­burg’s main fo­cus is pro­vid­ing le­gal ad­vice to mid-sized com­pa­nies and their bod­ies on all com­mer­cial, cor­po­rate and em­ploy­ment law re­lat­ed is­sues. In this re­gard he is reg­u­lar­ly in­volved in the ne­go­ti­a­tion and struc­tur­ing of com­mer­cial- and em­ploy­ment-re­lat­ed agree­ments. Dr. Old­en­burg al­so has a broad range of ex­pe­ri­ence, which in­cludes ad­vis­ing busi­ness en­ter­pris­es on com­pa­ny co-de­ter­mi­na­tion law, re­struc­tur­ing and trans­for­ma­tion of com­pa­nies and rep­re­sent­ing pub­lic en­ti­ties in cor­po­rate le­gal is­sues.

Dr. Old­en­burg is an ac­knowl­edged au­thor of nu­mer­ous pro­fes­sion­al ar­ti­cles and ref­er­ence books on com­pa­ny law, the law ap­pli­ca­ble to ini­tial pub­lic of­fer­ings and stock list­ings, com­pa­ny co-de­ter­mi­na­tion law and cor­po­rate pen­sion schemes.

Over many years until the end of 2013, Dr. Oldenburg had been a member of the management board of the firm.