Notary Dr. Jens Bormann
LL.M. (Harvard)
Since 2011
Notary in Ratingen (successor to the notary Dr. Hans Theo Schumacher)
2006 - 2011
Chief Executive of the Federal Chamber of Notaries in Berlin and editor of the German Notarial Journal (DNotZ)
2002 - 2006
Notary assessor in the Rhineland
2002
Doctorate (Dr. iur.) at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg (Breisgau) with a comparative law dissertation (under Prof. Dr. Rolf Stürner)
2001 - 2002
Postgraduate studies at Harvard Law School in Cambridge (Massachusetts / USA) with a Master of Law (LL.M.) degree
1996 - 1998
Legal clerkship in Freiburg (Breisgau) and Paris
1991 - 1996
Studied law at the Universities of Constance and Geneva (Switzerland)
1991
Abitur in Hattingen (Ruhr)
Voluntary activities
Languages
Publications
Monograph
Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen durch Grundstücksrechte, 278 p., Heidelberg 2003 (C.F. Müller), discussed by Wolfgang Grunsky, in: AcP 205 (2005), pp. 301-303, and by Dietmar Baetge, in: ZHR 169 (2005), pp. 509-512
Comments and manuals
§ 5 (Contracting), in: Böttcher/Faßbender/Waldhoff, Erneuerbare Energien in der Notar- und Gestaltungspraxis, Munich 2014 (C. H. Beck)
Editor and author, §§ 32-34, 91-94, 104-111, 113, 119, 120 GNotKG, in: Bormann/Diehn/Sommerfeldt, Gerichts- und Notarkostengesetz, 3rd edition Munich 2019 (C. H. Beck)
§§ Sections 1-13, 27 BNotO, in: Diehn, Bundesnotarordnung, 2nd edition, Cologne 2019 (Carl Heymanns).
§§ Sections 98-109, 110a BNotO, in: Eylmann/Vaasen, Bundesnotarordnung, Beurkundungsgesetz, 4th edition Munich 2016 (C. H. Beck; together with Dominik Hüren)
§§ Sections 45, 59a, 59c-m BRAO, in: Gaier/Wolf/Göcken, Anwaltliches Berufsrecht,
2nd edition, Cologne 2014 (Dr. Otto Schmidt)
§ 15 (Notarization procedure), in: Herrler, Gesellschaftsrecht in der Notar- und Gestaltungspraxis, Munich 2017 (C. H. Beck; together with Daniel Seebach)
§§ Sections 35-39, 85-87, 125, 126 GNotKG, in: Korintenberg, Gerichts- und Notarkostengesetz, 20th edition Munich 2017 (C. H. Beck)
Editors (together with Britta Limperg, Axel Filges, Marie Luise Graf-Schlicker and Hans Prütting), Recht im Wandel europäischer und deutscher Rechtspolitik - Festschrift 200 Jahre Carl Heymanns Verlag, Cologne 2015
Essays
Digitalization of company law under the EU Company Law Package (together with Peter Stelmaszczyk), in: Neue Zeitschrift für Gesellschaftsrecht (NZG) 2019, pp. 601-612
Cross-border demergers and changes of legal form under the EU Company Law Package (together with Peter Stelmaszczyk), in: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (ZIP) 2019, pp. 353-365
Cross-border mergers under the EU Company Law Package (together with Peter Stelmaszczyk), in: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (ZIP) 2019, pp. 300-312
The Next Level: Digitalization of European Company Law (together with Peter Stelmaszczyk), in: European Journal of Business Law (EuZW) 2018, pp. 1009-1010
Structures of company law in international comparison (together with Peter Stelmaszczyk), in: Festschrift Ludwig Bittner, Vienna 2018, pp. 13-32
Preventive administration of justice in the 21st century, in: Festschrift for Marie Luise Graf-Schlicker, Cologne 2018, pp. 575-588
Continental European company law in the competition between legal systems (together with Peter Stelmaszczyk), in: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (ZIP) 2018, pp. 764-773
The digitalized GmbH, in: Journal of Corporate Law and Company Law (ZGR) 2017, 621-647
Economic aspects of notarial activities in real estate law (together with Nicola Hoischen), in: Rheinische Notar-Zeitschrift (RNotZ) 2016, pp. 345-350
The SEA from the perspective of the national legal system, in: Lutter/Koch, Societas Unius Personae (SEA), contributions from science and practice, Berlin/Boston 2015, pp. 23-36
Staffing in the full-time notary's office, in: Festschrift for Wolfgang Schlick, Cologne 2015, pp. 399-411
Notarial activities in real estate law and their economic significance for the parties involved, in: Schröder, Grundstückserwerbskosten und Notargebühren im internationalen Vergleich, Bonn 2015, pp. 79-101
Modernization of cost law: Notary costs in inheritance law, in: Journal for Inheritance Law and Property Succession (ZEV) 2013, pp. 425-427
Union law framework conditions for the precautionary administration of justice after the "Notarial Decision" of the European Court of Justice, in: Festschrift for Rolf Stürner, Tübingen 2013, pp. 983-999
"Genuine Link" and free choice of legal form in the internal market (together with David König), in: Neue Zeitschrift für Gesellschaftsrecht (NZG) 2012, pp. 1241-1244
Credit Reorganization Act, ESUG and Scheme of Arrangement, in: Neue Zeitschrift für das Recht der Insolvenz und Sanierung (NZI) 2011, pp. 892-898
Notaries and notaries public between fundamental rights and state function (together with Leif Böttcher), in: Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW) 2011, pp. 2758-2761
The ECJ and the notary's office, in: European Economic and Tax Law (EWS) 2011, Issue 6, first page
Avoidance strategies for corporate co-determination in the SPE on the basis of the Hungarian compromise proposal (together with Leif Böttcher), in: Neue Zeitschrift für Gesellschaftsrecht (NZG) 2011, pp. 411-416
The road to the European private company (with David König), in: Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft (RIW) 2010, pp. 111-119
On the protection against interim dispositions in the case of the acquisition of a GmbH share subject to a condition precedent (together with David König), in: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht und Insolvenzpraxis (ZIP) 2009, pp. 1913-1915
The formal statute for the assignment in rem of GmbH shares under current and future law (together with David König and Tilman Götte), in: Neue Zeitschrift für Gesellschaftsrecht (NZG) 2009, pp. 881-887
Clarifying regulations on representation in land register and register proceedings (together with Matthias Meyer), in: Rheinische Notar-Zeitschrift (RNotZ) 2009, pp. 470-476
Constitutional aspects of the precautionary administration of justice and the notary's office (together with David König), in: notar 2008, pp. 256-264
Die Reform des Rechts der Gesellschaften mit beschränkter Haftung (together with David König), in: Deutsche Notar-Zeitschrift (DNotZ) 2008,
S. 652-672
Commercial register and GmbH formation in Germany as "best practice" compared to the Anglo-American legal system (together with Sebastian Apfelbaum), in: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht und Insolvenzpraxis (ZIP) 2007, pp. 946-952
The influence of signature law requirements on the effectiveness of the
electronic notarial deed (together with Sebastian Apfelbaum), in: Rheinische Notar-Zeitschrift (RNotZ) 2007, p. 15-22
The lawyer - from a liberal profession to a service-providing trade? (together with Rolf Stürner), in: Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW) 2004, pp. 1481-1492
International Recognition Jurisdiction of US Federal Courts and Service Issues in the German-American Relationship (together with Rolf Stürner), in: Juristenzeitung (JZ) 2000, pp. 81-87
Notes
Comment on the judgment of the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe of 14.05.2008 (securing beverage purchase agreements through easements), in: Mitteilungen des Bayerischen Notarvereins (MittBayNot) 2009, pp. 230-232
Comment on the judgment of the BGH of March 20, 1997 (attachment of daily assets and sequestration [together with Rolf Stürner]), in: LM § 106
KO No. 16
Comment on the judgment of the BGH of 17.06.1997 (Land charge entry in reminder proceedings after the opening of bankruptcy proceedings [together with Rolf Stürner]), in: Entscheidungen zum Wirtschaftsrecht (EWiR) 1997, p. 887 f. (§ 878 BGB)
Book review
Sven Wortberg, Release Clauses and Insolvency, Frankfurt am Main (2003), KTS 65 (2004), pp. 588-591
Conference report
The 65th German Jurists' Conference from September 21 to 24, 2004 in Bonn, Section Procedural Law, in: Juristenzeitung (JZ) 2005, pp. 178-180