Karen Frehmel-Kück advises national and international companies on all aspects of corporate law and (corporate) capital markets law.

She focuses on advising (European) stock corporations and groups of companies, in particular on ongoing advice, (avoidance of) directors' and officers' liability and the preparation and conduct of supervisory board and general meetings. Karen also advises on group law and restructurings as well as transactions involving (listed) stock corporations and VC-related stock corporation law. She advises on corporate capital markets law and IPO readiness (including change of legal form) and post-IPO issues.

Karen studied law in Berlin and Rome and completed her legal clerkship in Hamburg, Brussels (EU Commission), Munich and New York. She worked on her doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and continues to lecture on corporate law and reorganization law. 

Before joining Osborne Clarke, she worked for several years in an international law firm in Munich and Frankfurt, as corporate counsel for an international automotive group and most recently in a law firm specializing in VC advice.

Helping you succeed in tomorrow's world

Tomorrow’s world is diverse and digital - my advice reflects this. I support our clients in integrating legal tech into their corporate law housekeeping. Through my experience as an in-house lawyer, I bring a "diverse" perspective that enables me to better understand the needs and problems of our clients and offer tailor-made legal advice.

Index Ventures

Osborne Clarke has advised Index Ventures on its investment in the Language AI company DeepL as part of a USD 300 million financing round. The valuation of the unicorn increases to USD 2 billion. Read more.

Taxfix

Osborne Clarke has advised Taxfix Group, one of the leading financial platforms for digital tax returns in Europe, on the acquisition of TaxScouts, read more

Octane Group

Osborne Clarke has advised the Canadian Octane Group on the acquisition of Aesculap AG's stake in Reutlingen-based TETEC Tissue Engineering Technologies AG on an interdisciplinary basis, read more.

ABO Wind

ABO Wind AG Successfully Changes Legal Form with Osborne Clarke’s Support – all clear for ABO Energy GmbH & Co. KGaA. Read more.