Alexander Labus Partner

Qualification

Lawyer, Master of Laws (LL. M), Specialist in International Business Law and ECLP (Univ.)

Areas of expertise

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Corporate
• Start-up, venture capital, and technology transactions
• Compliance

Special sector knowledge

• Automotive industry
• Energy
• Transport & logistics
• Industrials

Languages

• German
• English
• spanish

Brief biography

• Since 2021 Forvis Mazars (formerly Mazars)
• 2018 – 2021 Partner Counsel at Becker Büttner Held, Munich
• Since 2018 Specialist in International Business Law
• Since 2017 ECLP (Univ.)
• 2014 – 2017 Senior Manager at Sonntag & Partner, Munich
• 2010 – 2014 Lawyer in Spain and in a mid-sized German law firm
• Traineeship in Bangkok, Thailand, including stations at the “Deutschen Bundestag” and the german Embassy
• Law Student at the Eberhard Karls University Thübingen, Universidad San Pablo CEU in Madrid and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg

Profile

Alexander Labus is a partner and head of our Munich office. He specialises in international commercial law. His practice focuses on transactional work (M&A), where he has many years of experience in advising on complex national and international corporate transactions (share and asset deals). Alexander Labus also holds a Master's degree in Sports Law (Master's thesis on the break-even rule of UEFA's Financial Fair Play). He specialises in various aspects of sports law, including advising investors on investments in sports clubs and providing comprehensive support to athletes. Alexander has also worked and studied in Spain for several years. He heads and is responsible for our Spanish Desk and is also a member of various German-Spanish committees. He also has a general industry focus in the automotive, recruitment and energy sectors.

Publications

• Klenk/Labus/Lindner/Orth: Besteuerung des kommerzialisierbaren Teils des Namensrechts - DStR 2024, 278 - beck-online
• Der kommerzialisierbare Teil des Namensrechts ist kein Wirtschaftsgut und nicht einlagefähig. Anmerkung zum BFH-Urteil v. 12.6.2019 – X R 20/17 - DStR 2023, 7 - beck-online

Participation in professional bodies of the profession and other functions

• Deputy cash auditor of the Deutsch Hispanischen Gesellschaft e.V.
• Auditor of the Deutsch-Spanischen Juristenvereinigung e.V.
• Member of the Board of the Amtlichen Spanischen Handelskammer für Deutschland e.V. for several years.