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Michael Abels

Michael Abels

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.
Angela Busche

Angela Busche

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).
Daniel Dohrn

Daniel Dohrn

Daniel is a Partner and has been a lawyer at Oppenhoff since 2009. Daniel Dohrn advises national and international enterprises on German and European antitrust law. He specialises in particular in German and European merger control issues (including the coordination of multijurisdictional filings), in the structuring of distribution systems, in antitrust law Compliance advice, in the assertion and defence against antitrust-related damage claims and in investigative proceedings of the cartel authorities before the Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission. He also advises on matters concerning European state aid law, whereby he specialises in state aid related advice on research projects and cooperations between universities, research facilities and enterprises. Daniel Dohrn has particular sector expertise in the areas media, commerce and aerospace & defence.
Anja Dombrowsky

Anja Dombrowsky

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.
Peter Etzbach

Peter Etzbach

Peter Etzbach is a partner of Oppenhoff. Peter Etzbach focuses his practice on the insurance and financial services industry. His transactionbased activities include advising German and international industrial enterprises and financial investors on cross-border M&A transactions, joint venture projects and restructurings as well as their financing. Peter has particular expertise in corporate law, including German stock corporation law, insurance and reinsurance law, finance, capital markets as well as insurance and banking supervision.He is head of the firm's Corporate / M&A practice and leads the Insurance and Financial Services Sector Group.
Harald Gesell

Harald Gesell

Harald is a founding partner of Oppenhoff. Harald specialises in corporate law, advising German and foreign clients in particular on domestic (German) and cross-border corporate restructurings, on SE (Societas Europaea) structures and on intra-group financing arrangements. Further emphasis is placed on domestic and international corporate acquisitions and joint ventures. Harald is a co-author of a commentary on the German GmbH Act, co-editor of a textbook on European corporate law and a visiting lecturer for corporate law at the Westphalian Wilhelms-University in Münster.
Hanno Goltz

Hanno Goltz

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.
Alexandra Groth

Alexandra Groth

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.
Klaus Günther

Klaus Günther

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 Alexander Häger

Marc Alexander Häger

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.
Jürgen Hartung

Jürgen Hartung

Jürgen Hartung is a partner of Oppenhoff.Jürgen Hartung is specialised in advising enterprises on data protection and IT law issues with a focus on outsourcing, IT projects and e-commerce. His data protection experience covers a wide range of matters, e.g. Internet of Things, mobile services, internal investigations, international transfers of personal data, social media, data breaches, data protection organisations, data-protection audits, etc. Furthermore, Jürgen Hartung advises on compliance issues, including risk analyses and the structuring of internal compliance organisations. He is also the firm’s contact person for the area South-East Asia region.
Isabel Hexel

Isabel Hexel

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.
Wolfgang Kotzur

Wolfgang Kotzur

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.
Marc Krischer

Marc Krischer

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.
Jorn Kuhn

Jorn Kuhn

Jörn Kuhn is a Partner of the firm Oppenhoff. Jörn Kuhn advises German and international enterprises on all issues of employment and company pension law. A focus of his activities is the counselling and representation of clients during restructurings and reorganisations at the company and business level. In this connection, Jörn advises enterprises on questions concerning collective bargaining and shop constitution law as well on corporate co-determination. This includes representation during negotiations with unions and works councils. He also regularly advises on the employment and company pension aspects of M&A transactions. Jörn Kuhn also advises enterprises on questions concerning the utilisation of outside labour, above all personnel leasing and industrial services on the basis of contracts for services and works.
Fee Mäder

Fee Mäder

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.
Georg Maier-Reimer

Georg Maier-Reimer

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.
Annabelle Marceau

Annabelle Marceau

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.
Stephan Müller

Stephan Müller

Stephan is a partner of Oppenhoff. He heads the firm’s public law practice group (which focuses on foreign trade law as well as environmental, public procurement and antitrust law). Stephan himself specialises in export control law, sanctions and compliance with a focus on the areas anti-corruption, money laundering and internal investigations. His advice is particularly sought after in crisis situations. He has special experience in developing and implementing compliance structures. He also advises his clients in permission proceedings or before the administrative courts. Since 2015 Stephan is co-chair of the IBA subsection on export controls and anti-corruption.
Vanessa Pickenpack

Vanessa Pickenpack

Vanessa Pickenpack is a partner of Oppenhoff. She advises and represents national and international enterprises in civil, trade and commercial matters. In addition to the examination and structuring of contracts, this includes extrajudicial dispute resolution as well as representation before the state courts and arbitral tribunals. A focus of Vanessa Pickenpack’s activities is cartel damage proceedings in which she advises and represents both on the claimant’s and defendant’s sides. Additionally, she regularly acts as an arbitrator in ad hoc and institutional arbitration proceedings.
Hans Jürgen Prinz

Hans Jürgen Prinz

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.
Kathrin Vossen

Kathrin Vossen

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.
Axel Wenzel

Axel Wenzel

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.
Alexander Willemsen

Alexander Willemsen

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.