Overview

‘Ann-Kathrin Ziegler is absolutely top quality.’ ‘What sets her apart is her ability to cut-through complex issues and explain them clearly and simply and with a commercial understanding of our needs as a client.’ - The Legal 500

Ann-Kathrin Ziegler is a restructuring partner in the Munich office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP.

She focuses on cross-border restructurings advising both debtors and creditors on acquisitions, disposals and reorganizations of stressed and distressed businesses.

Ann-Kathrin is featured in Law.com’s “Rising Stars: The European Legal Industry’s Up-and-Coming Women” for 2025. IFLR1000 recognizes Ann-Kathrin as a “Rising Star” 2025 for restructuring and insolvency in Germany. In addition, Handelsblatt Best Lawyers lists her among the “Ones to Watch” 2024 for restructuring and insolvency law in Germany.

Ann-Kathrin has been seconded to our London restructuring team in 2018/2019 and to Ares Management Limited in 2022/2023.

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Thought Leadership

Publications

Highest European Court Rules German Equitable Subordination Applies Despite Foreign Governing Law of Shareholder Loan, in: Kirkland Alert, 24 March 2026 (together with Dr. Christian Halàsz, Friedrich Schlott, Dr. Johannes Lappe and Jonathan Hain)

Wirecard: German Federal Court Rules Shareholder Damages Claims Are Subordinated in an Insolvency of the Issuer, in: Kirkland Alert, 24 November 2025 (together with Friedrich Schlott)

Aggregate: German Court Refuses to Recognise UK Restructuring Plan, in: Kirkland Alert, 2 September 2025 (together with Dr. Christian Halàsz, Kate Stephenson, Friedrich Schlott and Dr. Johannes Lappe)

Wirecard: German District Court Rules Double-Dip Structure is Enforceable, in: Kirkland Alert, 12 August 2025

European Court of Justice Rules on Centre of Main Interests: Neither Assets nor Human Resources Required, in: Kirkland Alert, 9 October 2024 (together with Kate Stephenson and Dr. Johannes Lappe)

German Court Erases Shareholder Holdout Plays Against German Restructuring Schemes: Shareholders’ Consent Not Required if Only Alternative is Insolvency, in: Kirkland Alert, 19 September 2024 (together with Dr. Johannes Lappe)

Chapter on Trends and Developments in Germany, in: Chambers Insolvency Guide, 2023 (together with Dr. Cristina Weidner, Dr. Johannes Lappe and Dr. Michael Berger)

Chapter on Germany, in: International Comparative Legal Guide (ICLG) – Restructuring & Insolvency, 16th ed. 2022 (together with Dr. Marlene Ruf and Nino Goglidze)

Chapter „Cross-class Cram-down in Europe“, in: International Comparative Legal Guide (ICLG) – Restructuring & Insolvency, 16th ed. 2022 (together with Dr. Marlene Ruf and Nino Goglidze)

One Year On: Has Brexit Been as ‘Hard’ as Imagined?, in: Kirkland Alert, 16 December 2021 (together with Kate Stephenson and Zoe Stembridge)

Major Positive Changes in the German Restructuring and Insolvency Landscape – Preventive Restructuring Process & Changes to the Insolvency Code, in: Kirkland Alert, 25 September 2020

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2021, Admitted to practice as a Solicitor of England and Wales
  • 2018, Germany

Languages

  • English
  • German

Education

  • Kaplan QLTSQualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme2021
  • Higher Regional Court of MunichSecond State Examination2018
  • Ludwig Maximilians University MunichFirst State Examination2016
  • University of St AndrewsM.A., International Relationswith Distinction2010