In times of generally declining solvency and bad payment behaviour it is indispensable to have a successful debt recovery service. Due to many years of experience in realising overdue debts, such as for the world’s largest collecting society as well as for numerous energy supply companies, BBH is able to deliver a speedy and full debt collection service without this causing disproportionately high costs for our clients.

A sensible debt collection process and the use of state of the art software are the most essential factors for the success of the debt collection and recovery service for our clients.

The following is an overview of our fast and successful collection strategies:

• fastest possible legal enforcement and execution of receivables through an automated filing and receivables registration
• court proceedings for order to pay debt are carried out electronically which saves a lot of time and therefore increases the possibility of the recovery of claims.
• disbursement of all costs accumulated through the legal enforcement and execution by BBH
• creation of an own account of disbursements, including the all-time availability of the current status of the debt recovery costs for the client
• automated booking of the collected claims as well as creation of a bookings list according to the clients’ requirements
• online information: client access, independent and not accessible for third parties outside regular office hours; access to data, daily updates and the status of procedures
• electronic document management system (DMS): electronic registration of documents, saving and allocation of the whole file, if required
• close co-operation with software specialists in order to define interfaces with our clients quickly and design them according to our clients’ wishes
• constant training of our clients’ employees in the area of debt collection and recovery
• debtors will be invoiced the lawyer’s fees incurred pursuant to the German Lawyers’ Fees Act (Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz - RVG). There are usually no lawyer’s fees to be paid by our clients with regard to our services.

Contact persons in this area are Dr. Christian de Wyl (Berlin), Christoph Edler von Weidenbach (Munich), Florian Tietze (Munich) and Markus Ladenburger (Munich).