Dr. Franck Schmidt-Husson
Lawyer

Franck Schmidt-Husson studied at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Bordeaux, Saarbrucken, and Munich. He has been practising law with Thümmel Schütze since 2002.

Franck Schmidt-Husson specialises in advice on matters of insurance law and process control, underlying issues of liability and indemnity law, as well as corporate law. A main focus of his practice lies in D&O and E&O insurances, fidelity loss, and professional liability insurances. Manager liability and compliance (defence of claims and prevention of liability) are the main focal points. His expertise covers a large and comprehensive range of matters concerning major accidents and large-scale insurance programmes.

Franck Schmidt-Husson has been involved in the so-called “Dieselgate” for various D&O insurers in the case of VW, and in the case of another automotive group in the defence of the liability claims of consumers (diesel-mass proceedings).

His clients include German and international insurers as well as executive managers, directors, and supervisory boards of stock companies and limited companies.

Location
Stuttgart

Languages
German, English, French

Phone
+49 (0)711 1667 193

Email

Main areas of activity

  • Liability & Insurance
  • Corporate & Commercial

References

  • Franck Schmidt-Husson has acted as monitoring and coverage counsel for the settlement of numerous and prominent manager liability cases in German industry
  • According to research by the “Handelsblatt” and the “WirtschaftsWoche”, Franck Schmidt-Husson is one of the best German lawyers in the areas of insurance law and manager liability. In 2011, the “WirtschaftsWoche” considered him one of the most prominent D&O lawyers in Germany (edition of 14.03.2011)
  • “Handelsblatt” and “Best Lawyers” listed him among “Germany’s best lawyers” for insurance law in 2022, 2021, 2020 (editions of 27.06.2022, 25.06.2021, 26.06.2020)

Memberships

  • German Association for Insurance Industry
  • Association of German-French lawyers
  • Club d’Affaires Franco-Allemand du Baden-Wurtemberg

Publications

  • Was, um Himmels willen, ist eine „Kardinalpflicht“? – Zum Wissentlichkeitsausschluss in der D&O-Versicherung in Usus atque Scientia, Festschrift für Roderich C. Thümmel, Berlin/Boston 2020
  • Delegation von Organpflichten in Christoph E. Hauschka (Hrsg.), Corporate Compliance, Handbuch der Haftungsvermeidung im Unternehmen, München, 3. Aufl. 2016
  • Offene Handelsgesellschaft in Martin Heidenhain/Burkhardt W. Meister (Hrsg.), Münchener Vertragshandbuch, Band 1 (Gesellschaftsrecht), München, 7. Aufl. 2011
  • Rundfunkfreiheit für die Deutsche Welle? Ein Versuch, die Grenzen der Wirksamkeit eines Grundrechts zu bestimmen, zugleich ein Beitrag zur Dogmatik des Art. 19 Abs. 3 GG, Diss., Berlin 2006

Awards