'Contractual Instruments for Resolving a Deadlock in the Shareholders' Meeting. A Critical Analysis of Shoot Out Clauses' The structure of companies with equal participation of the shareholders is prone to deadlocks in the shareholders' meeting. The thesis evaluates the contractual instruments that can be used to resolve a deadlock in the shareholders' meeting. The research focuses on the analysis of shoot-out clauses. A two-stage mechanism is recommended to the shareholders. This allows them to react appropriately regardless of the origin and intensity of the conflict underlying the deadlock.

Sönke Bock studied law and economics at the University of Bayreuth. In 2014, he passed the First State Exam. Following law school, he pursued his doctoral studies as a scholarship holder of the WIFU Foundation and also worked as Research Assistant in the Frankfurt office of a US law firm. From 2017 to 2019, he worked as a Legal Trainee at the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main with stages in New York, USA. In March 2019, completion of his doctoral studies at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Since July 2019, Sönke Bock works as an attorney-at-law for US law firm in Frankfurt am Main.

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