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Attorney Sascha C. Fürstenow
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Location of the Law Office: Stadtmitte – City Center
From the center of Berlin – the FÜRSTENOW Law Office is located in the International Trade Center (Internationales Handelszentrum) at Friedrichstraße 95, close to Friedrichstraße Station (Regionalbahn, S Bahn), directly at the U Bahn exit (U6), right in the heart of Berlin – Attorney Sascha C. Fürstenow advises and represents clients in all matters of commercial law with a focus on banking law, capital market law, capital investment law, real estate law, commercial contract law (e.g. license agreements, distribution agreements, partnership agreements, contracts for work and services).
.Attorney Fürstenow advises and assists bank clients (private clients as well as business clients) against banks in the context of their business relations, for example as account holders or borrowers, to enforce the rights of the bank clients against the seemingly overpowering contractual partner bank. RA Fürstenow also assists investors in junk investments to enforce claims for damages. Finally, Attorney Fürstenow advises, supports and represents clients in all aspects of real estate, including foreclosure proceedings.
The firm’s business clients include companies in the fields of ecommerce, clean energy and technology. Attorney Fürstenow advises and represents, among others, RHEFOR (Deutschland) GmbH, a company specializing in the development of electromagnetic drives.
Especially company founders as well as already founded start-ups and young companies are offered legally sound support in all relevant legal issues. Attorney-at-law Sascha C. Fürstenow also imparts this start-up-relevant knowledge as a guest lecturer in lectures and workshops. Furthermore, attorney Fürstenow is a lecturer for banking law.
There is a strategic cooperation between attorney Fürstenow and the TechCode Accelerator (Germany) TCAC GmbH for the legal support of German companies heading for China as well as Chinese companies that want to expand to Germany.
Attorney Fürstenow is the contact person for small and medium-sized businesses in the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region via the Nuremberg Business Center.
Attorney Fürstenow as an expert in the Tagesspiegel on the subject of VBB monthly passes in times of Corona.
An overview from Germany’s most popular attorney portal:
Banking law
Capital market law, investment law, revocation of loan contracts
Contract law (B2B)
Drafting contracts, consultation and procedural representation of companies and Start-Ups
Real estate law
Examination of land purchase contracts and purchase contracts
Vita
Attorney Sascha C. Fürstenow has been an assessor since 2007 and admitted to the Berlin Bar Association since the same year. He has been working as a lawyer since then.
- Studied law at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin (graduated with the first state law examination) and studied at the Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy (graduated in general civil law, individual contract law, human rights law and philosophy of law).
- Legal clerkship at the Kammergericht in Berlin (graduated with the second state law examination).
- Referendariat at the law firm Fiammenghi – Fiammenghi, in Rome, Italy.
- Worked in the Bundestag administration, department for petitions.
- Languages: German, English and Italian.
In addition to his work as a lawyer, Attorney Fürstenow is involved as a juror and consultant for start-ups and founders in Berlin Brandenburg Business Competition (BPW) and passes on his knowledge as a lecturer.
About the Law firm
In legal advice and support, the economic interest and the resulting (competitive) advantage of the client, be it a company or a consumer, is always in the foreground. The law firm FÜRSTENOW offers:
- Consulting from a single source through intensive personal support of the clients. This is important for a trustworthy work to achieve the best possible goals for the clients;
- individual solutions of legal advice and support for the respective client. These are indispensable for the economic (competitive) advantage and sustainable success;
- as much time as necessary to develop individual results.
- excellent service through flexible availability instead of rigid office hours;
- experience and industry knowledge through many years of experience as a lawyer. This applies in particular to legal advice, contractual drafting, contractual review (especially loan agreements) as well as negotiations and litigation before civil courts.
Lecturing
In addition to his work as a lawyer, Mr. Fürstenow is also a regular lecturer. The main focus of his lectures is on economically relevant legal topics, such as company formation, commercial law, corporate law and banking law. Especially start-ups, but also established entrepreneurs, Attorney Fürstenow wants to give legal thought-provoking impulses in order to create the greatest possible economic added value and above all to avoid disadvantages.
Attorney Fürstenow is a lecturer and tutor of the subject banking law and related legal topics for the course of studies banking specialist of the BankCollege
Furthermore, Attorney-at-Law Fürstenow works as a lecturer for the following institutions or has become active:
- appointed lecturer at Steinbeis Universität
- at TechCode Germany
employee training in general contract law, right of representation, liability law - at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW) Berlin
Workshop liability of GmbH‐founders - at the Steinbeis SMI Hochschule in Stuttgart
Seminar corporate law und commercial law
- at the SAE Institute Berlin
with workshops on the subject of basic knowledge for founders and contract drafting - at the Steinbeis SMI Hochschule in Munich
the Bachelor Seminar „Law“ - at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW) Berlin,
workshop on general and specific questions concerning foundation and contract drafting - for the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) Potsdam, Regional Center Oranienburg
on the subject “Fundamentals of Patent and Licensing Law” - at the “Chunhui Cup” Entrepreneurship Summer Camp 2016 of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China
on the topic “Gründungen in Deutschland” - at the ebam Business Akademie for Media, Event and Culture in Berlin
on the subject of general civil law - at the European University Viadrina* in Frankfurt (Oder) for the Brandenburgisches Institut für Existenzgründung und Mittelstandsförderung e. V. (Brandenburg Institute for Business Start-ups and SME Promotion) (BIEM) and for theCentre for Entrepreneurship and Research
on the subject of business start-ups “Everything that is legal when setting up a company” - at the Eberswalde University of Applied Sciences for Sustainable Development (HNEE)*
on the topics of business start-ups as well as licensing and patent law - Participation in the German – Chinese annual meeting in Dayun, China, Zhejiang Province, for Chinese and German small and medium-sized companies in 2018 and 2019 as a representative of various companies
* as part of the business plan competition (BPW)
Lawyer Fürstenow is listed as a consultant in the KfW (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau) advisory exchange.
Areas of law and services
The law firm FÜRSTENOW offers the following services:
- legal advice on individual legal issues and facts for companies as well as for consumers;
- comprehensive legal support for companies (external legal department, legal manager);
- start-up advice and support, especially for company founders and start-ups;
- drafting of contracts, in particular in the aforementioned areas of law;
- debt collection for companies against defaulting customers and business partners;
- legal representation (including assistance in arbitration and mediation proceedings).
With his law firm, Attorney Fürstenow has deliberately specialized in a few overlapping fields of law and set corresponding priorities. For those seeking advice in other areas of law, Mr. Fürstenow can sometimes help by establishing contact with other law firms that work with FÜRSTENOW Anwaltskanzlei.
In the field of copyright and media law, Attorney Fürstenow has been working for many years with Philipp Beck, attorney and specialist lawyer for copyright and media law.
https://www.beck-law.eu/
In matters relating to administrative law, in particular trade law, residence law, aliens law and naturalization law for business start-ups, lawyer Fürstenow works together with Achim Bedenk, lawyer and specialist lawyer for administrative law from the Bedenk & Dr. Heun office.
https://www.bedenk-heun.de/
For questions concerning (commercial) landlord and tenant law and condominium law there is a cooperation with attorney Alexander Einfinger.
https://www.einfinger-recht.de/
If a company is planning to establish a foothold in the People’s Republic of China, Attorney Fürstenow can establish contact with FangBen Law Office, an internationally oriented intellectual property law firm based in Shanghai.
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Bank legal disputes
Retrieve faulty bank transfer
- Postbank – eine Niederlassung der DB Privat- und Firmenkunden AG, Bundeskanzlerplatz 6, 53113 Bonn
- Volksbank Haren/Ems, Niederlassung der Ostfriesischen Volksbank eG, Kirchstraße 20-22, 49733 Haren
- Santander Consumer Bank AG, Santanderplatz 1, 41061 Mönchengladbach
- Postbank Hamburg, eine Niederlassung der Deutschen Bank AG, Postfach 22283, Hamburg
Abuse system loan service provider
- Revolut Bank UAB, Konstitucijos ave. 21B, Vilnius, 08130, Republik Litauen
- Postbank Hamburg, eine Niederlassung der Deutschen Bank AG, Postfach 22283, Hamburg
Credit card/bank card misuse
- UniCredit Bank AG, Legal, Corporate Affairs & Documentation / LCD1, Büro: Sederanger 6, 80311 München
- Advanzia Bank S.A., Postfach 4108, D-54231 Trier
- DKB Deutsche Kreditbank AG, 10919 Berlin
- Postbank – eine Niederlassung der DB Privat- und Firmenkunden AG, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 114 – 126, 53113 Bonn
- Consors Finanz, Postfach 20 20 54, 80020 München
- Berliner Sparkasse, Niederlassung der Landesbank Berlin AG, Alexanderplatz 2, 10178 Berlin
Revocation loan agreement
- Ikano Bank AB (publ), Zweigniederlassung Deutschland, Otto-von-Guericke Ring 15, 65205 Wiesbaden
- ADAXIO AMC GmbH, Hohenstaufenstraße 7, 65189 Wiesbaden
- Deutsche Bank AG, Taunusanlage 12, 60325 Frankfurt am Main
- Sparda Bank Berlin eG
- Santander Consumer Bank AG
- SEB AG
- Münchener Hypothekenbank e.G.
- ING-DiBa AG
- Oyak Anker Bank
- Deutsche Kreditbank AG (DKB)
- Sparda-Bank Berlin eG, Storkower Str. 101 A, 10407 Berlin
- Santander Consumer Bank AG Santander-Platz 1, D-41061 Mönchengladbach
- Münchener Hypothekenbank eG. Karl-Scharnagl-Ring 10, 80539 München
- ING-DiBa AG, Theodor-Heuss-Allee 2, 60486 Frankfurt am Main
- Deutsche Kreditbank Aktiengesellschaft. Taubenstraße 7-9, 10117 Berlin
- OYAK ANKER Bank GmbH, Lyoner Straße 9, 60528 Frankfurt
Account suspension / Blocking of account
- N26 Bank GmbH, Klosterstr. 62, 10179 Berlin
- Commerzbank AG, Kaiserplatz, 60311 Frankfurt am Main
Claim from land charge already cancelled
- DB Privat- und Firmenkunden AG, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 114 – 126, 53113 Bonn
Foreclosure proceedings
- ADAXIO AMC GmbH, Hohenstaufenstraße 7, 65189 Wiesbaden
- Commerzbank AG, Kaiserplatz, 60311 Frankfurt am Main
Refund of unauthorized processing fees in loan agreements with consumers:
- Banque PSA Finance S.A., NL Dt., Geschäftsbereich PEUGEOT BANK
- BMW Bank GmbH
- Commerzbank AG
- Degussa Bank AG
- Deutsche Bank Bauspar AG
- Deutsche Bank Privat- und Geschäftskunden AG
- Deutsche Postbank AG
- DKB Deutsche Kreditbank Aktiengesellschaft
- DSL Bank – Ein Geschäftsbereich d. Dt. Postbank AG
- Fiat Bank, ZNL der FGA Bank Germany GmbH
- Ford Bank NL d. FCE Bank plc (Bank)
- Hanseatic Bank GmbH & Co KG
- Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB)
- Santander Consumer Bank AG
- Süd-West-Kreditbank Finanzierung GmbH
- TARGOBANK AG & Co. KGaA
Faulty investment advice (junk investments, junk real estate and other investment investments and funds):
- Commerzbank AG
wegen: IVG EuroSelect Zwölf GmbH & Co. KG - LBBW
wegen: Immobilienfonds Neue Bundesländer No. 1 GdbR - SHB Innovative Fondskonzepte GmbH & Co. Altersvorsorgefonds KG
- MCM Vermögenswerte AG & Co. KG (Genussrechtsbeteiligung)
- Grüezi Real Estate AG
- Schroeder & Co. Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH und Isetreuhand GmbH
wegen: Erste Oderfelder Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG (LombardClassic2) und Lombardium Hamburg GmbH & Co. KG - ADAXIO AMC GmbH (zum Rechtsrat)