He is a member of the firm's International Corporate Transactions Group.Mr. Geiss specializes in mergers and acquisitions and corporate transactions, as well as general commercial law. He also advises international clients on corporate insolvency issues.Before joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Geiss was a research assistant at the University of Freiburg. He combined his teaching duties with an academic focus on state aid and European competition and company law. Mr. Geiss is fluent in German and English and has advanced knowledge of French. He has translated both contemporary fiction and academic legal literature from English into German and vice versa.Membership of Professional BodiesAdmitted as a German lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) since 2002