Stefan Meyer

Mr Stefan Meyer is a qualified bank clerk and attorney specialising in insolvency and restructuring law who is also active as a lecturer at the University of Münster. Following his formal training course in banking, he studied Law and Economics in Bayreuth.

Stefan Meyer is Managing Partner at PLUTA Rechtsanwalts GmbH as well as the head of various PLUTA branch offices in the region of Westphalia / East Westphalia and Lower Saxony (e.g. Münster, Osnabrück, Lübbecke).

His activities are focused on restructuring and turning around companies as part of debtor-in-possession proceedings and ordinary insolvency proceedings. In addition to this, Stefan Meyer provides advice on the basis of his many years of experience in restructuring mandates and also acts as the chief restructuring officer.

Apart from his activity as a consultant and administrator (including compulsory receivership), he also works as a lecturer (in insolvency law) in seminars organised by the German Attorneys’ Academy (DAA) on a regular basis. Finally, Mr Meyer also publishes his own articles in specialist journals; he is a member of the Working Group on Insolvency Law and Restructuring created by the German Bar Association (DAV) and a member of the German Association of Insolvency Administrators (VID), for example. (Furthermore, he is also a member of the VID’s committee for the “Principles of proper Insolvency Administration and their further Development”.)

In 2020, Stefan Meyer was awarded Lawyer of the Year in the legal field of "Restructuring and Insolvency Law" by the Handelsblatt. He was also included in the list of "Germany's Best Lawyers".