Dr Michael Schilling is Senior Lecturer in International Commercial and Financial Law at King’s College London. He read law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, King’s College London and Humboldt University Berlin. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on European and comparative commercial, corporate and corporate insolvency law. As a Rechtsanwalt and of counsel for a German law firm, he advises on cross-border insolvency and corporate law cases, involving mainly Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.