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Hannah-Laura Schütte

Lawyer │ Senior Associate

Stuttgart, Dusseldorf

+49 2115660 14063

hannah.schuette@luther-lawfirm.com

Areas of practice

Employment Law

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Restructuring & Insolvency

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Health Care & Life Science

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Mobility & Logistics

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Real Estate & Infrastructure

Hannah-Laura Schütte primarily advises domestic and international companies from a variety of industries in restructuring situations. She concentrates her practice on providing legal and operational assistance during debtor-in-possession management and protective shield proceedings, insolvency proceedings, and reorganisation proceedings under the German Corporate Stabilisation and Restructuring Act. Her services also include carrying out preparatory work and providing legal assistance before the application to open insolvency proceedings is filed, as well as advising companies and their corporate bodies or creditors prior to insolvency on all insolvency law issues – including the special features of insolvency employment law, which is a core element of many restructuring projects. Hannah-Laura Schütte further specialises in enforcing and defending insolvency-specific rights and claims, in particular, liability claims against managing directors and rights to contest transactions performed by the debtor before the insolvency proceedings were opened.

Vita

Hannah-Laura Schütte studied law at the University of Cologne (Germany). She then carried out her legal training in Dusseldorf (Germany), part of which involved working in a law firm that specialised in providing insolvency administrator services. Hannah-Laura Schütte was admitted to the German Bar in 2017.

Prior to joining Luther as a lawyer, Hannah-Laura Schütte worked as an insolvency lawyer in a large commercial law firm.

Hannah-Laura Schütte is a founding and board member of Düsseldorfer Kreis für Transformation und Restrukturierung e.V.

She is also a visiting lecturer on avoidance in insolvency law at the Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Sciences (HfWU).

Honors and distinctions

Best Lawyers 2026: Recommendation in "Ones to Watch" in “Restructuring and Insolvency Law”

Clients

Advised a communications technology company on its restructuring and reorganisation with debtor-in-possession management (Wisi beantragt Insolvenzverfahren in Eigenverwaltung | Digitalfernsehen)
Support for a medical and nursing foundation during the restructuring process (protective shield procedure for the Pfeifferschen Stiftungen | healthcare market)

Memberships

Deutscher Anwaltverein (DAV)
Düsseldorfer Anwaltsverein
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Insolvenzrecht und Sanierung
Arbeitsgruppe Junge Insolvenzrechtler
Arbeitskreis für Insolvenzwesen Köln e. V.
Düsseldorfer Kreis für Transformation und Restrukturierung e.V.
Bundesverband Deutscher Unternehmensberatungen BDU e.V.

Newsroom

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Protective shield proceedings: Luther advises hospital group "Pfeiffersche Stiftungen" on merger with Magdeburg University Hospital

02.07.2025 | PR

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30.06.2025 | PR

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24.06.2025 | Blog

Preservation of loss carry-forwards despite acquisition of more than 50% of the shares

18.06.2025 | Blog

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27.05.2025 | Blog

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06.05.2025 | Blog

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General Court bolsters up the European Commission: Dismissal of action brought by German fragrance company for annulment of inspection decision authorising a dawn raid to be conducted on the undertaking.

05.05.2025 | Blog