Dr. Johannes Heck

Attorney at Law in Italy

Rechtsanwalt (Attorney at Law in Germany)

Bologna

Stuttgart

German

English

Italian

Dr. Johannes Heck

Attorney at Law in Italy

Rechtsanwalt (Attorney at Law in Germany)

Bologna

Stuttgart

German

English

Italian

About Dr. Johannes Heck

Studied law at Universities in Germany and Italy.
Visiting Researcher at the University of Bologna (Italy) with a doctoral scholarship from the DAAD.
Doctorate (Dr. iur.) at the University of Heidelberg (summa cum laude) with a dissertation on Italian insolvency law.

Regular speaker on insolvency law at national and international conferences.

2022 Awarded a "Borsa di studio DDC per giovani cultori delle discipline sulla crisi d'impresa" by the journal Diritto della crisi for a German-Italian research project on the Restructuring Directive (EU) 2019/1023.
2024 Awarded the “Prof. Niccolò Salanitro” prize by the University of Catania for the best work of 2021 and 2022 in the field of commercial law by authors under 35 years of age for the monograph “Krisen des fallimento”.
2025 Award of the ‘ZIS Young Insolvency Law Prize’ of the Centre for Insolvency and Restructuring at the University of Mannheim e.V. (ZIS) in cooperation with the Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (ZIP) for an essay manuscript on the topic ‘Dispositions in preliminary insolvency proceedings - status of weak preliminary insolvency administration according to BGH v. 21 March 2024 - IX ZR 12/22, ZIP 2024, 1482’

Memberships

  • Arbeitsgemeinschaft Insolvenzrecht und Sanierung im DAV
  • Deutscher Anwaltverein Italien (DAV Italien)
  • Deutsch-Italienische Juristenvereinigung e.V.
  • Forum junge Anwaltschaft im DAV