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

  • Crowdinvesting, in: Fromberger/Haffke (eds.), Recht für Start-ups (Verlag C.H. Beck, to be published in early 2024) (with Christian Nitzke)
  • OLG Zweibrücken, 17.05.2022 - 8 U 30/19: Notarielle Befassung bei Wandeldarlehen an GmbH, Recht der Familienunternehmen (RFamU) 2023, 88 (w. 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 (w. annotation Primbs)
  • Notable Governance failures: Enron, Siemens and beyond, Legal Scholarship Repository (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School), 2016