Notary Dr. Axel Pfeifer

Born in 1958, married, one daughter

Notary since 1992

Notarizations are also available in English, French, and Italian

Expert in all notarial matters, especially in corporate law (general meetings) and corporate housekeeping (domestic and international companies)

Assistant & Appointments

Sandy Ontl

phone

040 / 30 20 06 - 26

Vita

1976
High school diploma (Abitur) at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums, Heinrich Hertz Memorial Prize, Bugenhagen Medal, admission to the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
1976 - 1982
Studied law and Protestant theology at the universities of Hamburg, Geneva, Cambridge, Tübingen, Urbino, and Munich
1980 - 1987
Research associate and lecturer in foreign and international private law at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg
1983 - 1987
Legal clerkship (Referendariat) in Hamburg, Rome, and Frankfurt am Main
1986
Doctorate (Dr. iur.) from the University of Hamburg and Dottore in Giurisprudenza from the University of Urbino
1987
Second State Examination in Law in Hamburg
1992
Appointed notary for life; partner at Notariat Bergstraße

Publications

Commentary literature

Commentary on Sections 925–928 German Civil Code (BGB), in: Staudinger Commentary on the German Civil Code (2017 ed.), co-authored with Diehn

Books

1. German Case Law in Private International Law in 1981 (edited together with Jan Kropholler and Matthias Sonn, 1983) – review: Sturm, NJW 1985, 1271

2. German Case Law in Private International Law in 1982 (edited together with Jan Kropholler and Matthias Sonn, 1984) – review: Jayme, NJW 1985, 2883

3. Party Autonomy in International Jurisdiction under Articles 17 and 18 of the European Convention on Jurisdiction and Enforcement (doctoral thesis, Urbino/Italy, 1986; partially overlapping publications in: Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (ed.), Handbook of International Civil Procedure Law, Vol. I, 1982, ch. III, §§ 3 and 5; and in: Jan Kropholler, European Civil Procedure Law – Commentary on the Brussels Convention, 1st ed. 1983, 2nd ed. 1987, commentary on Arts. 17 and 18) – reviews incl.: Geimer, NJW 1984, 2745; Busl, NJW 1988, 2164

4. Product Defects or Manufacturer Misconduct: The New Product Liability Law in Germany, the USA and under the EC Directive (1987) – reviews incl.: Brüggemeier, WM 1988, 1744; Schuster, ZaöVR 1989, 824

Journal Articles and Festschrift Contributions

1. The New European Law of Jurisdiction Agreements (with Jan Kropholler), in: Contributions to International Procedural Law and Arbitration Law, Festschrift for Heinrich Nagel (1987), pp. 157–166

2. Defence Against Dumped and Subsidised Imports into the European Community: An Introduction Considering the EC Regulation Reform and the Judgments of the Court of Justice of 7 May 1987 (with Alexander Riesenkampff), in: DB 1987, pp. 2505–2511

3. Privatisation of Former State-Owned Property (with Jochim Thietz-Bartram), in: WM, special supplement no. 4/1990 to issue no. 22/1990, pp. 3–17

4. The Amount in Dispute in Corporate Law Actions and Proceedings (with Wilhelm Happ), in: ZGR 1991, pp. 103–124