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 “Best Lawyers” 2026 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

Frontline focus: Kirkland’s global restructuring insights, in: Global Restructuring Review (GRR), 17 June 2026 (together with Dr. Friedrich Schlott and Zoe Stembridge)

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