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Alexander Willemsen is a partner at Oppenhoff. He advises German and international enterprises on all questions of individual and collective labour law. The focuses of his activities are the restructuring of enterprises and businesses as well as the labour law aspects of M&A transactions. In addition thereto, he specialises in the drafting and termination of service and employment contracts, as well as acting on the employers’ side in disputes with works councils and trade unions.
Alexandra Groth is a Junior-Partner at Oppenhoff. Alexandra Groth advises on employment law. She advises national and international enterprises on all areas of individual and collective bargaining employment law, in particular on the structuring, implementation and termination of employment and service contracts as well as on business and company codetermination matters. A further focus of her activities is the provision of ongoing employment-law related advice during corporate restructurings and M&A transactions.
Alf Baars is a partner of Oppenhoff. Alf Baars advises German and foreign enterprises and financial investors on national and cross-border company transactions, joint venture projects, restructurings and other corporate law issues. He specialises in M&A transactions involving Iberian and Latin American jurisdictions.
Angela Busche is a partner of Oppenhoff.Angela Busche focuses on data protection and IT law. She has been advising international and national enterprises for many years, inter alia in the health, industrial production, automobile, IT, business services and auditing sectors.Her expertise extends across the entire range of data protection challenges that arise when handling employee, customer and patient data. She assists her clients in the establishment of intragroup data protection organisations, the legitimisation of international data transfers, reactions to requests for information (Sec. 15 GDPR), and the implementation of privacy by design and by default in IT purchases, etc. Mrs. Busche also advises in extensive digitisation projects in the context of Industry 4.0 and the Internet-of-Things (e.g. smart factory, smart products or data driven services).
Anja Dombrowsky is a partner of Oppenhoff. Anja Dombrowsky specialises in advising national and international enterprises on individually and collective employment law. She assists and advises her clients on the strategic development and implementation of practical solutions to all questions concerning employment and service contract law, as well as on matters of company codetermination and shop constitution law. She also provides accompanying employment law advice during national and international transactions and reorganisations, including the pertaining negotiations with the works council and union. Anja Dombrowsky has many years of experience in employment litigation and the representation of clients before the authorities. As a representative of enterprises, she also assists in the conclusion and termination of contracts with corporate organs.
Anna-Catherina von Girsewald is a junior-partner at Oppenhoff. She advises German and foreign corporations in national and international M&A transactions and joint ventures. Moreover, she advises on all issues regarding general corporate and commercial law as well as on company restructurings and reorganisations. A further focus of her work is the advice on all matters of insurance supervisory law.
Annabelle Marceau is a Junior-Partner of Oppenhoff. Annabelle Marceau works in the field of employment law. She advises and represents national and international enterprises on all areas of individually and collectively bargained employment law, in particular the drafting, execution and termination of employment contracts and service agreements as well as co-determination in businesses and enterprises. She additionally handles the employment law aspects of corporate reorganisations and M&A transactions. Annabelle Marceau also represents employers in courts.
Axel Wenzel is a partner at Oppenhoff. He specialises in advice to entrepreneurs, enterprises and foundations on all issues of German and European corporate law, in particular in national and cross-border reorganisations, company purchases, joint ventures and in connection with SE structures. As a partner of the practice group Succession, Wealth, Foundations, he also advises wealthy individuals, family-run companies and families of owners as well as non-profit or private foundations on all questions concerning company and property succession. In this connection he focuses on cross-border issues of inheritance and family law, as well as the law on foundations and non-profit organisations.
Bennet Stephan has worked as a commercial law specialist at Oppenhoff since 2021.
Christian Fischer has been Of Counsel at the firm’s Hamburg office since the beginning of 2019. Christian Fischer is Of Counsel in the Aerospace & Defence department. He specialises in maritime industry and high-tech.
Christof Gaudig is a partner of Oppenhoff. Christof Gaudig particularly advises investors, multinational enterprises and German medium-sized companies on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions and complex projects, including litigation in these areas. He also advises insurers and reinsurers in litigious proceedings and on regulatory matters.
Edder Cifuentes has worked at Oppenhoff since 2014. Edder Cifuentes specialises in commercial and corporate law, M&A as well as capital markets law, and has particular expertise in corporate matters with a Latin American– European cross-border perspective.
Fee Mäder is a Junior-Partner of Oppenhoff. Fee Mäder advises and represents German and international enterprises in the areas of intellectual property law, copyrights and fair trade practice laws. In addition to defending against and enforcing infringement claims, she assists in the legal aspects of the planning and implementation of advertising and marketing measures. Fee Mäder also specialises in media law. Here, she not only advises and represents clients in the defence against and enforcement of claims under private law, such as the infringement of personal rights by text and photo-journalism, for example, but also in the field of public media law in cases concerning supervisory and regulatory questions and proceedings of the state media authorities. She has particularly good knowledge of the branch and expertise in the field of broadcasting services (radio and television) as well as in the publishing sector.
Gabriele Fontane joined Oppenhoff in 2018. Gabriele Fontane has been advising M&A and private equity transactions and on corporate law since the mid-1990ies, with a focus on MBO/LBO transactions. She is also specialized in acquisition finance and management participation programs. Among Gabriele Fontane’s clients are financial investors/private equity funds, corporates, MBO managers and entrepreneurs who consider selling their business.
Georg is a founding partner of Oppenhoff. Georg Maier-Reimer specializes in company law, private M&A transactions, joint ventures and litigation in these areas as well as estate planning. Since 1982, he has been a member of the legislative committee for civil law in the German Lawyers’ Association, from 1993 to 2018 as its chairman. With numerous publications, primarily in the field of company law, he has participated in the scholarly discussion of the law. The law faculty of the Cologne University awarded him an honorary doctorate degree.
Georg Lecheler is a partner of Oppenhoff. Georg Lecheler advises German and international enterprises and investors in the areas of intellectual property, copyright, unfair competition and cartel law.
Gert is a founding partner of Oppenhoff. Gert Dittert has extensive experience in all areas of intellectual property law. His main areas of expertise are media and entertainment law, competition and trademark litigation and all IP-related aspects of corporate and finance work.
Gunnar is a partner of Oppenhoff. Gunnar Knorr specialises in tax advice on mergers and acquisitions and corporate financing, in particular with regard to cross-border transactions, the structuring and restructuring of corporate groups and advice on tax audits, including proceedings before fiscal courts.
Hanno is a founding partner of Oppenhoff. Hanno Goltz specialises in mergers and acquisitions, advising and representing domestic and foreign companies on the sale and purchase of companies and businesses and on the legal structures for cooperations between companies in Germany and abroad. He is also experienced within the insurance sector, including M&A transactions, the establishment of new insurance companies, insurance supervision law, the restructuring and development of new insurance products as well as within the security industry. He represents leading international insurance and reinsurance groups in major disputes before the courts and arbitration tribunals.
Hans Jürgen Prinz has been Of Counsel at Oppenhoff since May 2008. Hans Jürgen Prinz specialises in the provision of legal advice to German and internationally operative enterprises and businessmen in the sphere of commercial law. Besides acting as legal counsel in litigation and arbitration proceedings, he has extensive experience in the field of media law and intellectual property rights. Through countless proceedings Hans Jürgen Prinz has achieved an excellent reputation throughout Germany as an expert on media law.
Isabel is a partner of Oppenhoff. Isabel Hexel specialises in individual and collective employment law. She advises national and international companies on issues concerning company co-determination procedures, collective bargaining and shop constitution law, in particular within the scope of M&A transactions, restructurings and the negotiation of compromises of interest and social plans. Her other primary focuses include the drafting and termination of service and employment contracts as well as representation in court.
Kathrin is a partner of Oppenhoff. She specialises in advising national and international companies on all aspects of employment law. Her focus in the area of collective employment law is on employment law issues arising in a European Company (Societas Europaea). In individual employment law, she advises with a special focus on illness-related dismissal issues, company integration and health management measures as well as employment law for severely disabled persons. In addition, she has many years of experience in employment law litigation (in proceedings leading to judgements and administrative decisions) before the local and regional employment courts as well as the Federal Employment Court. She operates exclusively on the employers’ side.
Klaus Günther has been of Counsel at Oppenhoff since March 2008. Klaus Günther specialises in the counselling of German and foreign companies and entrepreneurs in matters of commercial law. He also has extensive experience in over 100 proceedings both as an arbitrator and as a legal representative in large-scale arbitration proceedings in the areas M&A, joint ventures, energy, plant engineering and construction, the aircraft industry and general contractual relations, inter alia Toll Collect as representative of the Federal Republic of Germany, expropriations in the electricity sector, contracts in the public regulatory and telecommunications sectors concerning the scope of licences, the termination of the contracts as well as price and volume adjustments pursuant to ICC, DIS, LCIA, VIAC and UNCITRAL Rules as well as in ad-hoc proceedings. He has regularly gained recognition for his arbitration experience both as presiding arbitrator and as a member of arbitral tribunals.
Marc is a partner of Oppenhoff. Marc Hilber is specialised in advising companies on technology related transactions, and in particular on joint ventures as well as outsourcing and software development projects. He advises on contract structuring for outsourcing and cloud computing, on software projects, e-commerce and on data protection law.Marc Hilber is editor of the guide to Cloud Computing published by Otto Schmidt and co-editor of Beck's Online Commentary in IT Law (2019).
Marc Krischer is a partner of Oppenhoff. Marc Krischer specialises in providing tax and balance sheet advice in M&A matters, in the structuring and restructuring of corporate groups as well as advice on external audits and extrajudicial and judicial legal remedies. He also advises on VAT, Insurance Premium Tax, Withholding Tax matters, management incentives and tax compliance requirements. Within the practice group Succession, Wealth, Foundations he advises in particular artists and sportsmen with respect to cross-border tax implications.
Marc Alexander Häger is a partner at Oppenhoff. Marc Alexander Häger specialises in real estate law. Furthermore, he has vast experience in litigation and arbitration, especially with regard to commercial lease matters, contract law and insolvency law. He advises and represents national and international enterprises and financial investors inter alia on the purchase, sale and development of properties and portfolios, on leases and general contract law as well as on related civil- and commercial law issues.
Mareike Heesing is a partner of Oppenhoff. Mareike Heesing focuses on advice to national and international high-technology enterprises. In particular, she assists them with project contracts, foreign investment control (FIC) procedures and on questions concerning export control and sanctions.She has special expertise in the structuring of contracts for multinational procurement projects in the aviation and aerospace sector.
Markus Rasner is a partner of Oppenhoff. Markus Rasner specializes in advice on domestic and cross-border M&A and private equity transactions. For more than 15 years he has advised entrepreneurs, family offices, financial investors and both national and international enterprises on their M&A projects. He also has extensive experience in advising Asian investors. Markus Rasner additionally advises on distressed M&A transactions and complex corporate law matters.
Martin Brandenburger-Nonnast has been a lawyer at Oppenhoff since 2021.
Michael is a founding partner of Oppenhoff. Michael Abels is specialised in advising high-technology enterprises and governments in the areas of acquisitions, restructurings, strategic alliances, joint ventures and commercial contracts. He also advises clients wishing to implement projects in these areas. He originally concentrated on information technology (system agreements, distribution structuring and IT / BPO Outsourcing) but has extended his area of special expertise to aerospace and defence technology.
Michael Oppenhoff is a founding partner of Oppenhoff. Michael Oppenhoff specializes in corporate law with a focus on structural, management and co-determination matters and acts as member and chairman of several Supervisory Boards.
Michael Weigel is a partner at Oppenhoff. He has represented German and international clients in complex arbitration and state court disputes in all areas of commercial law for over 30 years. His clients include business enterprises as well as financial service providers and professional service firms. In recent years, he has focused in particular on civil litigation in the wake of major white-collar crimes and professional liability matters.
Michael Lamberty has been admitted to the Bar since 2014 and has been a lawyer and Legal Tech advisor at Oppenhoff since 2022.
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Moritz Bock has been a lawyer at Oppenhoff since 2022. Moritz Bock advises and represents companies on matters of corporate law. His activities include, in particular, company transactions. Moritz Bock also has experience in the field of real estate law.
Myriam Baars-Schilling is a partner at Oppenhoff. Myriam Baars-Schilling is specialised in advising German and foreign clients on national and cross-border M&A transactions and joint venture projects. She also regularly assists international enterprises on group restructurings, reorganisation measures and other general questions of corporate law. She has particular expertise in the information technology and industrial sector.
Nefail Berjasevic joined Oppenhoff in 2013. Nefail Berjasevic specializes in advising German and foreign enterprises on all aspects of German and European corporate law as well as on insolvency law. He also focuses on national and cross-border transactions, joint ventures and company restructurings.
Rolf Koerfer has been a partner of Oppenhoff since October 2009. He can look back on more than twenty years of experience as a lawyer in the field of corporate transactions. He is one of the proven specialists in national and cross-border M&A transactions and has extensive legal expertise on the reorganisation of enterprises.
Sabrina Hennig has been a lawyer at Oppenhoff since 2021.Sabrina Hennig has been a lawyer at Oppenhoff since 2021.
Sebsastian Zeeck is a partner at Oppenhoff. He provides comprehensive advice in the areas of restructuring and insolvency as well as corporate law, and he combines both areas. He specialises in restructuring and advising in times of crisis and insolvency on the one hand, and on complex corporate transactions and disputes on the other. His clients are companies and entrepreneurs as well as insolvency administrators.
Stephan is a founding partner of Oppenhoff. Hespecialises in mergers and acquisitions, corporate advice to family-owned groups as well as disputes resulting from these. He has particular experience in arbitration proceedings both as arbitrator and as party representative in large-scale arbitration proceedings in the areas M&A, joint ventures and corporate law.
Till Liebau is a partner of Oppenhoff. Till Liebau specialises in advising national and international corporate groups, family-run enterprises and financial investors on M&A and private equity transactions. He has particular experience in cross-border investments. Till Liebau has worked extensively for leading W&I insurance providers on their M&A underwritings. Mr. Liebau also extensively advises on group reorganisations and other measures of corporate law.
Wolfgang Kotzur has been an attorney and partner at Oppenhoff since 2020. Wolfgang Kotzur has in-depth expertise in advising borrowers and lenders on debt financing transactions under both German and English law. He has worked for all types of borrowers and lenders on a variety of different financing structures for around two decades.A focus of his advisory practice is on corporate finance, senior and mezzanine real estate finance, receivables finance transactions and restructurings.Wolfgang Kotzur also has extensive experience in advising on transactions relating to acquisition financing and fund financing such as capital call facilities.