
Michael Primbs
Attorney-at-law
Research Associate
Contact
Room: 2409
Mail: michael.primbs@tum.de
Phone: +49-89-289-25348
Research Areas
- Sports law (especially Antitrust law and law of Association)
- Blockchain and Fin-Techs
Education/Career
- 08/2023 - 10/2023: Visiting Scholar at the Pennsylvania State University - Supervisor: Professor Stephen F. Ross (sponsored by the Bayerische-Amerika-Akademie)
- Since 07/2023: Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich
- Since 04/2022: Ph.D. cand. at the University of Augsburg - working title: "Information flows in professional sports"
- Since 10/2021: Research Associate to Prof. Dr. Philipp Maume, chair of Corporate Governance and Capital Markets Law, TU Munich
- 05/2019 - 07/2021: Legal clerkship at Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main ("second state examination") - Stations at the German Embassy Washington, D.C., Amazon as well as FC Bayern München AG, among others
- 10/2014 - 05/2018: Law studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt ("first state examination")
- 10/2014 - 05/2018: Student Assistant at the chair of Civil Law, German, European and International Business Law, Law and Finance and Comparative Law (Prof. Dr. Brigitte Haar, LL.M. (Univ. Chicago)), Goethe University Frankfurt
- 10/2015 - 03/2016: Area of focus studies at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
- 09/2013 - 07/2014: Law studies at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
- 10/2011 - 07/2013: Law studies at the University of Leipzig (intermediate examination)
Work experience
- Since 11/2022: Associate at 3T.LAW - Munich
- 01/2019 - 05/2019: Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP - Frankfurt
- 10/2018 - 11/2018: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP - Düsseldorf
- 08/2018 - 10/2018: Deloitte Analytics Institute - Berlin
- 06/2018 - 08/2018: Siemens AG - Munich
- 10/2017 - 11/2017: Noerr LLP - Munich
- 09/2015 - 10/2015: Onol Arga (NGO) - Ulaanbaatar
- 03/2015 - 05/2015: Bird & Bird LLP - Frankfurt
- 07/2014 - 08/2014: Legal Aid Scheme of Ghana (NGO) - Accra
- 01/2014 - 02/2014: Projects Abroad Human Rights Office (NGO) - Córdoba, Argentina
- 02/2013 - 04/2013: Allbright Law Offices - Shanghai
Volunteer Work
- Since 12/2022: Volunteer at "Freunde alter Menschen e. V." - Munich
- 09/2014 - 05/2018: Probation worker at the "Verein der Förderung der Bewährungshilfe in Hessen e.V." - Frankfurt
- 11/2015 - 05/2018: Student legal advisor at "Law&Legal" - Frankfurt
Scholarships
- Since 10/2019: McKinsey Capstone Scholar
List of publications
- Granting Economic Fairness in Sports Governance - Revised Federation Autonomy following European Superleague, in Bungenberg et. al., European Yearbook of International Economic Law (to be published in 2025)
- Professional football clubs and football agents as obliged entities under the new EU Anti-Money Laundering Regulation, SpuRt 2024, 256 (with Haffke/Wegner)
- CJEU, 21.12.2023 − C-333/21: On the Application of EU Competition Rules to the FIFA and UEFA Statutes (Superleague), European Journal of Business Law (EuZW) 2024, 122 (with annotation Heger/Primbs)
- Crowdinvesting, in: Fromberger/Haffke (eds.), Recht für Start-ups (Verlag C.H. Beck, to be published in 2025) (with Christian Nitzke)
- OLG Zweibrücken, 17.05.2022 - 8 U 30/19: Notarielle Befassung bei Wandeldarlehen an GmbH, Recht der Familienunternehmen (RFamU) 2023, 88 (with annotation Frase/Primbs)
- OLG Dresden, 20.07.2021 - 8 U 840/21: Haftung bei Kontoüberlassung an Dritte, Zeitschrift für Bank und Kapitalmarktrecht (BKR) 2022, 528 (with annotation Primbs)
- Notable Governance failures: Enron, Siemens and beyond, Legal Scholarship Repository (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School), 2016