About Dr. Gunnar Binnewies

Dr. Gunnar Binnewies is Managing Director at Fortlane Partners in Munich. He is Head of Organisations, People & Performance. He also heads the Healthcare Practice and supports clients from the pharmaceutical, hospital and medtech sectors with growth and digitalisation projects.

 

He has extensive expertise in management consulting. He specialises in restructuring, in particular personnel restructuring programmes. He often acts as a mediator between employers and employees with the aim of making the organisation as a whole fit for the future in terms of locations, skills and processes. With his team of 30 colleagues, he ensures that staff restructuring is carried out quickly, cost-effectively, quietly, comprehensibly and, above all, with a view to the future.

 

Dr. Gunnar Binnewies studied business economics and business sciences at the University of Bayreuth, the ESC Rouen in France as well as the University of Hannover and gained his doctoral degree at the University of Bayreuth.

Dr. Gunnar Binnewies
Dr. Gunnar Binnewies
Managing Director
Restructuring and Turnaround, Organizational Performance and People, Carve-out and PMI, Workforce Transformation, Healthcare and Life Sciences
Munich, Germany
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Transformentors
February 2026
#06 Nadja Raiß, Partner for self-administration and restructuring, K&L Gates
In this episode of TRANSFORMENTORS®, Dr Gunnar Binnewies from Fortlane Partners and Nadja Raiß discuss a topic that many companies fear – but which also offers enormous strategic opportunities: self-administration as a conscious restart in times of crisis. When liquidity comes under pressure, markets collapse and traditional restructuring tools no longer work, management faces a key question: wait and see – or take action?This episode shows why self-administration is not a failure, but an active management decision that opens up scope for action, brings responsibility back to management and can build trust among stakeholders. The focus is on concrete practical experience from hashtag#restructuring and hashtag#insolvency proceedings, typical errors in thinking by decision-makers, special features of labour law, the role of professional communication in times of crisis, and the question of when self-administration makes sense – and when it does not. Open, realistic and without legal euphemisms. A must-read for managing directors, shareholders, advisory board members and executives who bear responsibility when the going gets tough.
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Navigating the AI shift: a call for HR-IT skill synergy
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