Johann Christoph Schaper, LL.M. (London)
Christoph Schaper advises companies, property managers, family-owned companies, and owners on all matters relating to residential and commercial tenancy law and residential property law.
Furthermore he advises German and international clients on all aspects of conflict resolution, in particular in corporate disputes such as shareholder disputes, directors' and officers' liability proceedings and post-M&A proceedings, as well as in commercial disputes. He has considerable experience in defending investor lawsuits and in the handling and defending liability actions and claw-back claims under insolvency law.
He has extensive expertise and experience in strategic organization and litigation in mass proceedings involving a large number of individual proceedings.
In addition, Christoph advises companies on all questions of national and international commercial law, companies in crisis and employment law.
Christoph is certified specialist lawyer for tenancy and residential property law and has completed the specialist lawyer course in commercial and corporate law. Before founding Skaling Partners mbB, he worked in the Litigation Department of Latham & Watkins LLP for more than nine years.
Areas of Law
Professional Background
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2025
Certified Specialist Lawyer for Tenancy and Residential Property Law
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2020
Founding Partner SKALING Partners
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2011
Lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) Latham & Watkins LLP
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2010
Master of Laws (LL.M.), London
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2008
Lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) LUTHER Partnerschaft
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2007
Admitted to the Hamburg Bar
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2004
Legal Clerkship in Bremen
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1999
Law Studies in Dresden
Memberships
Hamburgischer Anwaltverein (HAV)
Deutscher Anwaltverein (DAV)
Anglo-German Law-Society (AGLJ)
Rankings
Recognized for Litigation in "Germany's Best Lawyers 2022" by Best Lawyers® and Handelsblatt