Michael Pluta

Mr. Michael Pluta is an attorney-at-law, a certified accountant and an attorney specialising in insolvency law. Mr. Pluta is a managing partner of the law firm PLUTA Rechtsanwalts GmbH which is one of the leading restructuring companies, with more than 50 appointed insolvency administrators and about 500 employees in more than 40 offices in Germany, Italy and Spain.

His activities are focused on restructuring and turning around companies that have been affected by a crisis or insolvency, on auditing accounts and financial reporting as well as on buying and selling companies.

For instance, Mr. Michael Pluta was appointed provisional insolvency administrator of Hock Holding GmbH & Co. KG based in Stuttgart in 2016. In 2015 he was appointed insolvency administrator of nicko cruises until the successful sale of the company. From 2014 to 2015 he was the Chief Restructuring Officer (CRO) on the management board of Strenesse AG. Mr. Pluta also restructured Gebr. Märklin & Cie. GmbH and successfully repositioned the company on the market as part of a 4-year programme to continue business operations and he was a member of the supervisory boards of Gardena Holding AG (Ulm), Stamag (Regisbreitingen) and Kässbohrer Fahrzeugwerke (Ulm).

Mr. Michael Pluta is also a member of INSOL Europe (previously European Insolvency Practitioners Association - AEPPC), of the Working Group for Insolvency and Arbitration, of the DAV Working Group on Insolvency Law, of the German Association of lnsolvency Administrators (VID) and of the “Gravenbrucher Kreis” Association of Insolvency Administrators.

In 2020, Michael Pluta was awarded by the Handelsblatt in the category "Germany's Best Lawyers" (legal field: restructuring and insolvency law).